WELCOME TO

STAFRA RAGDOLLS

 Located in Anderson, SC.

"Quality Not Quantity" 

  Raised and socialized in our home with children, adults & dogs.  Our Ragdolls are not in cages.   

 Our goal is to produce healthy, beautiful Ragdolls with great loving and floppy personalities, large size and deep blue eyes.   We strive for Traditional & Healthy lines.  

What is a Ragdoll Cat?

Ragdolls are large, gorgeous, loving, affectionate, playful and have the most captivating blue eyes!

See more about Ragdolls in

TICA

CFA 

Our Queen

 BRIERROSE JORJA OF STAFRA

 ("Jorja")

Blue BiColor

Taken Feb 2012

Taken 2011

Taken 2011

Pictures above taken by 1Touch Photography   

"Jorja" is one of the most sweetest girls!  She has large bone,   the most gorgeous dark blue eyes, beautiful type, pretty face and bunny soft coat and a floppy attitude. 

  She is very sweet with her playful antics and  "Mommy" meows. She is the first to meow to let me know it's time for bed as she races me to flop on my bed at night. She is a sassy girl with a perfect temperment.   Jorja is so much of what the breed standard says a Ragdoll should be, playful, floppy, large and loves everyone she meets.   She will be our foundation Queen here at StaFra. DNA tested and clear of HCM.

    Will be showing in Soon!

Our King

 TICA CHAMPION WILLOWTREERAGS ARISTON OF STAFRA

 ("Ari")

Seal Colorpoint

Taken Feb 2012

Taken 2011

Taken 2011

Taken Christmas 2010

Pictures above taken by 1Touch Photography

 "Ariston" aka "Ari" is an extremely handsome boy!  Pictured above at 11 months old, and 10lbs in this photo. 

Ari is still a playful, loving and floppy kitten and has so much more maturing and growing to do.  Ari has a lush bunny soft coat, a perfect solid masculine muscular body, heavy boning and a gorgeous head profile. His eyes are a gorgeous medium to dark blue.   As he matures, he stays balanced in type and gets  stronger in color. He is such a regal little man that you can't help but stare as he enters the room.  He purrs loud and meows at everyone who enters to demand attention. He loves everyone he meets. Each day I watch him I fall deeper in love with my boy! Ari will be our foundation Stud here at StaFra.

  SHOW NEWS*  Ari along with my daughter Brittni and I went to our first TICA cat show July 30 & 31st, 2011 in Columbia, SC.   The * TICA SE Regional * Yes, we jumped in with both feet!   We learned so much and had a terrific time. Knowing that in this region, Bicolors usually do better in the shows than Colorpoints, We expected to just gain experience and have Ari learn the ropes of a cat show.   Ari surpassed my expectations of his first time in the show ring!   He looked for us but stood proud and held his own while we looked on smiling.

 His first day at the show he was awarded:

6 Best of Color and 6 Best of Division

and then onto

 5- Second Best Ragdoll and 1- Best Ragdoll

His second day at the show he was awarded:

3 -Best Ragdolls and 2- Second Best Ragdolls and 1 Final!

Ari was awarded 10th Best Cat in the show! 

Ari will go to more shows soon!  For now, we are still in awe that in his first show, he became...

 TICA CH. WILLOWTREERAGS ARISTON OF STAFRA

 Thank you to all of the judges who recognized the amazing qualities in Ari!

A HUGE Thank you Mable, for entrusting me with Ari and helping me so  much along the way!  I hope we make you proud.

In Loving Memory of

Our Marco Polo..  Heaven gained a sweet Angel.

DCDOLLS MARCO POLO OF STAFRA

aka

 "Polo"

Polo came to me on May 20, 2008 as just a little baby.   I had so many plans with him.  Showing him was one of my plans, but I never got the chance.  I wanted to wait until he matured and was a little larger to really bring him out and compete heavily with him.  I noticed that Polo was not growing at a rate he should have.   At just under a year old, he was less then 8lbs.   He just wasn't growing all over as a male should. He would sit and look into the distance at times during our regular play times and with in a week of noticing that he started to lay down during these times and not want to play.  He started sleeping a lot more. Upon inquiring, I was told he was from a "slow maturing line".  -Maybe this was a time of a growth spurt..??   I had scheduled his 1 year veterinarian examination to have him throughly checked.  He passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on February 28th, 2009.   He was my heartbeat!  There is so much I could say about Polo.  He was such a lover and such a playful little boy as a baby.  I'd hide and say Marco and he would come straight to me as if to say POLO!  I could hold him forever and he loved it! He would follow me everywhere I went. He slept with me.  There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of him.  There isn't a day that goes by that I don't tear up wishing he was still here and healthy.

  PLEASE, before you buy a kitten, make sure your kitten's parents are tested for HCM.  Listening to a cat's heart isn't enough!  HCM is known as a 'Silent Killer'.

Make sure that the breeders that you purchase your kitten from can show you proof that parents of your Ragdoll are negative for the HCM mutation. This will ensure that your kitten is negative. If one of the parents is carrying the mutation, then your kitten will need to be tested to be sure that it did not inherit the mutation.

Saying that they are scanning or are screening their ragdolls is not enough. Make sure that they have done an HCM DNA test. A DNA test is the only way to know that your ragdoll is not carrying the deadly HCM mutation.

A Ragdoll can be carrying one mutation (heterozygous) or two mutations (homozygous). Either mutation can be a killer and you want to have a Ragdoll that is negative from any known mutations.