We are a CFA registered cattery only. Before getting into breeding I found there were many unethical breeders being registered with TICA and more of the serious breeders being registered with CFA. That was what I noticed on the surface and then later on I started to see TICA had lower standards, where even mis-marked ragdolls were winning competition and I could not see the reason for winning the competition when they just look like a regular pet quality Ragdoll. So it is why my cattery is CFA only. I rather not cheat myself and win easily and actually improve my lines with a higher standard pushing me to do that. We have gotten many kittens that had the show quality standard to compete in CFA, but they always had some kind of small fear, like wind or something else when being taken outside, even though they showed a calm temperament for indoor. We are working on a kitten that has show qualities and is able to handle being taken outside. For the mean time we are working on improving our lines. The coat of our Ragdolls are not the longest and there is a lot of improvement needs to be made for our new rare color lines, since we have just started to breed them. Chouchou has been a great asset to our cattery. He has deep blue eyes and a very long fur coat and 50% of our kittens inherit it. We do not use bathing or photoshopping to give our cats the salon look. I prefer authentic, I have been misinterpreted by many breeders giving their cats baths to get that poofed look, and when I didn't bath them the same way, they were unpoofed instead. Meaning the bathed look wasn't their actual look. I feel it is best to find breeders that do not try to focus so much on displaying and marketing, because they normally charge a lot for an average Ragdoll.
It also make me sad that Cherubim are being allowed to breed with the traditional ragdoll breed. Making the traditional white neonate kittens be multiple colors. When Ann Baker, created the breed there were different kinds of lines and traditional ragdolls we have today is the lines that she decided to keep as the official ragdoll breed. Ragamuffins and Cherubims were not apart of that standards. And sadly breeders are mixing them with the traditional Ragdolls. This makes me worried that there will eventually be no traditional ragdolls in the future and will pretty much just be some regular indoor house cat look. Which is why CFA does not recognize them or allow them to be registered in the Ragdoll registery.
I like regular house cats I have 2 of them, but when you are trying to pay a couple thousands for a purebred, you are expecting a better look. I always wanted a pretty cat and that is why I am breeding Ragdolls, because any pretty cat I tried getting my hands on was adopted from someone else at the shelter or breeders for Ragdolls or another breed had to wait for several months or always getting reserved.
Before getting into breeding I believed a lot of the lies that breeders tried to deceive people with, saying they took classes they have been qualified etc. And that being CFA or TICA registered made them ethical. Also when I started breeding, it was standard to let kittens leave at 2 months old. Which I personally felt was way too young and I was right, which is why most breeders changed to 3 months old when I became a breeder. We are only CFA registered, because CFA has the same highest standards that we like to hold ourselves to. For TICA their rules are very loose and seems very easy to win a competition. My goal when becoming a breeder after finding out how the breeding community was for Ragdolls, was to change everything. Not the standards for Ragdolls, but the way breeders did things. I believe in empowering people, letting them know more and not making standard rigid rules for my kittens which is why we are always 3 months earliest and for certain situations maybe later. Because nothing is absolute.