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NRR Proposal 1 – RAGDOLL – RAG Amendments to the standard

Existing text: Proposed new/deleted text:

Head/ Kopf/ Tête	Shape/ Form/ Forme	Medium size, broad modified wedge with the appearance of a flat plane between the ears.	Medium size, broad modified wedge, slightly rounded forehead with the appearance of a flat plane between the ears.
	Cheeks, Chin, Muzzle/ Wangen, Kinn, Schnauze/ Joues, Menton, Museau	Cheeks well developed, tapering to a rounded well developed, medium long muzzle and a well-developed chin.	Cheeks broad and well developed, tapering to a rounded well developed, medium long muzzle and a well-developed chin.

Motivation: In 2006 NRR, on behalf of Norwegian and Swedish breeders in the SRC (Scandinavian Ragdoll Club),

promoted a proposal of changes to the Ragdoll standard to FIFe’s General Assembly. Our proposal was endorsed.

Today, four years later, we see that the Ragdoll standard is still somewhat incomplete and we want to promote a new proposal.

Firstly we want to change the current standard regarding the head and cheeks as we think the current text is deficient.

Faults/ Fehle/ Fautes	Head/ Kopf/ Tête	· narrow head	· narrow head
	Nose/ Nase/ Nez	· stop, roman nose	· stop, roman nose
	Ears/ Ohren/ Oreilles	· large or small ears · pointed ears	· large or small ears · pointed ears
	Eyes/ Augen/ Yeux	· almond in shape	· almond in shape
	Neck/ Hals/ Cou	· too long and too thin neck	· too long and too thin neck
	Body/ Körper/ Corps	· cobby body · narrow chest	· cobby body · narrow chest
	Legs/ Beine/ Pattes	· short legs · splayed toes · lack of tufting	· short legs · splayed toes · lack of tufting
	Tail/ Schwanz/ Queue	· short tail · blunt tip	· short tail · blunt tip

Motivation continues: Most breeds have a FAULT list and many of these errors/faults are unnecessary to list if the

breed standard otherwise is well described.
Ragdoll breeders and exhibitors would therefore like to delete the current FAULT list to the general RAG-standard

as it appears today.

Faults precluding certificate higher than 95 points

Existing text: Proposed new/deleted text:

Faults/ Fehler/ Fautes/ Faults precludes certificate higher than 95 points	B		Head:    asymmetrical “V”
	C	Head:   lack of white chin Legs:    any dark spot on the white mittens Coat:     any dark spot on the belly                lack of the white stripe	Head:      lack of white chin Legs:       any dark spot on the white mittens Mittens: white extending over the metacarpals on the  front legs, one or more toes not white Coat:     any dark spot on the belly                lack of the white stripe

Faults/ Fehler/ Fautes//	F	Ears:      white on the ears Tail: white on the tail	Ears:      white on the ears Tail: white on the tail
	G		Nose:      stop, roman nose

Motivation continues: Several of the points under the current FAULT list regarding coat colour and pattern are not desirable,

but we do not regard them directly as errors.
We wish that Ragdolls that have these faults described in the FAULT list for coat colour and pattern to be exhibited,

but they should be excluded from nomination to Best in show panel.
Our proposal is that such cats with the above mentioned faults, cannot achieve a score higher than 95 points and the title of IC / IP

B	Bi-colour : RAG 03 Points: ears, mask and tail - to be well defined. The mask to have an inverted ‘V’ ….	Bi-colour : RAG 03 Points: - ears, mask and tail – to be well defined. Mask must have an inverted “V”, as symmetric as possible, starting in the forehead area, within the outer edge of the eyes. ….
C	Mitted : RAG 04 …. White mittens on the front legs; the hind legs should be white at minimum up to the heel and maximum to the middle of the thigh. Coloured spot(s) in this area are acceptable. Nose leather: analogous to the colour of the points or pink Paw pads: pink	Mitted : RAG 04 …. White mittens on the front legs paws; the white should stop at the articulation or at the transition of toes to metacarpals, over which they should not extend. Hind legs should be white at minimum up to the heel and at maximum to the middle of the thigh. Coloured spot(s) in this area are acceptable. Nose leather: analogous to the colour of the points or pink Paw pads: pink

Motivation to B above: The discussion among breeders and exhibitors of the Ragdoll, as well as judges is often

concerning the 03 variant and it’s quantity of white, as well as the appearance of the variant’s white blaze.

After long discussions between breeders in many countries, we agree on the text above on the bi- colour variant’s white blaze.

Motivation to C above; The mitted variant 04 has become a very popular variant of the breed and colour errors with

streams / runners on the back of the front legs have unfortunately become a problem.
We would therefore like to bring in a new text to emphasise that this is not desirable.

NRR Proposal 2 – RAGDOLL – Introducing EMS code 06 for the Ragdoll bicolour, describing distribution of coat colour

Bicolour RAG 06

Coat colour/ Fellfarb/ Couleur de la fourrure

Points: - ears, mask and tail – to be well defined. Mask must have an inverted “V”, as symmetric as possible, starting in the forehead area, within the outer edge of the eyes. Body colour is to be a shade lighter than the points: with or without white spots on the back. Belly white and without spots. Preference is given to white legs.

Bicolour RAG 06

Motivation: The bicolor RAG is according to the EMS system today considered to be a 03 variety. Several breeds in the EMS system have 03 varieties.

We want a new code in the EMS that shows the Bicolour RAG, and we want to give this new code the number 06. 

In the FIFe general part of the standards the following is described for the 03 variety:

"At least half must be colored, but not more than ¾, the rest is white. A white blaze on the face is desirable.

White on the back is desirable. No single white hairs in the solid colored parts. There must be white on the legs, on the chest, face and stomach."

Our description of the RAG bicolor variety defines clearly how the RAG bicolor should look, and there are in many details large deviations from

the general bicolor 03 description. Based on the clearly defined deviations to the general description of the 03 varieties we want to change the EMS

code of bicolor Ragdolls from RAG 03 to RAG 06. Apart from the description of the distribution of coat colour, the rest of the 03 standard is adopted.