Willowtreerags Ragdolls

08/07/2025

I’d like to formally introduce one of our new queens, Magnadolz Cherry Bounce!
Cherry came to us in January from my beloved friend Sharon Smith Shulby. Months prior, Sharon graciously messaged me multiple times that she thought she had a special kitten, a descendant of the founding queen of Sharon’s cattery that I trusted her with many years ago when she began, TICA RW SGC WillowTreeRags Sylbr8 of Magnadolz.
Sharon sent us our sweet little Cherry as a gift, and a link back again to our foundation (she is the great granddaughter of Sylbr8) .
Cherry is an outgoing little lady who eats up all of the attention she can get here, and is constantly purring, rolling around on her back, belly up for rubs!! Her absolute best attribute is her flawlessly correct profile. She is perfectly marked and a tribute to all that Sharon has put into her breeding program.
I named her after what was George Washington’s favorite drink, Cherry Bounce, a historical and intriguing liqueur that I’ve always wanted to make!

After a couple of litters, when Cherry is full mature, we look forward to trying her luck in the show halls!

Thank you, Sharon, for your years of friendship, loyalty & love! ❤️ It all is reflected in the kitty that Cherry is!

Sire: TICA DGC CreekCats Timothy of Magnadolz
Dam: TICA TGC Calirags Promzmedamoon of Magnadolz

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06/20/2025

We’ve found our new vet! Now introducing, Dr. Cosette, DVM!
It’s her last day of Kindergarten (I mean, vet school) and she had to dress as what she wanted to be when she “grows up”!

Unfortunately, in reality, after many, many great years our vet is retiring and we have been thoroughly searching for a new one local to us in Southeastern Massachusetts. Specifically one who is cat-loving, breeder friendly and will practice early spay/neuter on our kittens (at approx. 12 weeks of age). If you know of a vet or are a vet and would be interested in talking with me, please feel free to reach out! Luckily, we’ve been in great capable hands lately with a breeder friend’s vet in RI (thank you Diane & Ken), who has been fabulous! However, it’s quite a drive for us and the kitties. We do have a couple leads we are looking into closer, thanks to some of our other friends!

Cosette won’t be ready to practice at least for another 20 years. 😜😅 On to first grade!!!

05/30/2025

I realized that although I add photos/videos to my stories often for our followers, I haven’t posted in quite a bit!

Things have been a good kind of busy around here! Spring has sprung and is well on its way, along with it, brought some beautiful Ragdoll babies to us! Our most recent litter was between TICA RW SGC WillowTreeRags King Comet & Cooperdolls Highclere, I have attached photos of some of their adorable little babies! I will try to be better this Summer making actual “posts” for the public. So plenty more to come soon, I hope! ❤️

With our first litters almost fully reserved, we are looking forward to the summer months which will bring us a few more litters, it’s a very exciting time and I know those of you are on waiting list are very excited to see our next newest arrivals.

I have officially closed our waiting lists for 2025. Being preservation breeders for over 23 years and known worldwide, it’s been very hard to keep up with the demand. The Ragdoll breed’s popularity, in my opinion, only continues to grow as more people are able to experience knowing and loving one themselves. ❤️
We have opened our Spring/Summer 2026 waiting list (it has space, but yes, it also is filling). If you are hoping to bring a Ragdoll home from us in 2026, feel free to reach out after reading our “Kitten Waiting List” page of our website and getting acquainted with the entire process.

2026 should bring many exciting things! We will be keeping back some homebred queens and we will welcome a new King at some point over the next year to take the spot of Dave. 👑

Thank you all for the continued support of my passion, and most of all… your love for the Ragdoll breed and all that we do here!

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04/20/2025

Happy Easter from all of us at WillowTreeRags!
🐰🌷🪻🐣

Are you hoping to bring home a Ragdoll kitten from us in 2025? Our Spring/Summer waiting list is full, we have opened our Fall/Winter waiting list and have 6 spots remaining. If you are interested in reserving a spot on our waiting list, please read our “Kitten Waiting List” page of our website and send us over an email. 💕

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04/10/2025

Our dear homebred queen, TICA RW DGC WillowTreeRags Sweet Peach with her trio of Spring kitties. Peach is a sweet, smart and embodies everything a Ragdoll should be in personality and temperament. Peach has the most intense blue eyes (a true combination of both of her parents). Unless you’ve seen them in person, you might think they’re photoshopped! They are eyes of the bluest ocean water! Peach is a Seal Tortie Point Bicolor, and her markings are very flashy and unique, all while being in line with the written standard, and a blue eyed pointed Ragdoll. The warm tones of her firey Red and chocolatey Seal contrast in a striking manner with her intense blue eyes. She also has the fabulous Ragdoll bunny coat- to lay your hands on it is something magical!

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04/03/2025

Happy Spring! 🌷🪻🌷
Our first litters of 2025 have arrived. We haven’t had kittens in over 6 months due to our planned annual break. Everyone is thriving and we are so excited to watch them grow and share them with all of our WillowTreeRags family and followers in the coming months!

We do not have space available on our Spring/Summer waiting list. All of these kittens are reserved. However, we have opened our Fall/Winter waiting list. If you’d like to be considered and are interested in reserving a spot, please visit our “waiting list” page of our website to become acquainted with our waiting list process and send us over an email!

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03/30/2025

Most of the photos I have Liwu, she’s flopped over or on her head… these are no different. ☺️

TICA RW SGC Fairytaleragdol Liwu of WillowTreeRags
Sire: WillowTreeRags Pikachu
Dam: WillowTreeRags Lenore
Liwu is a daughter of two kitties bred by us. She is 3 generations of WillowTreeRags on her mother’s side.

Liwu has plenty of personality and loves to talk (like her mother’s line). She loves to be the center of attention (can’t you tell?).
Liwu has many of our foundation line traits we hold dear to us… the bunny coat, proper moderate Ragdoll head and profile, proper eye shape and lovely intense blue color, she also has a nice robust body for a girl- long body, long legs, substantial boning and musculature. She is a fabulous girl and is currently expecting a litter with TICA RW SGC WillowTreeRags King Comet shortly.
We are so thankful to our friend Jia for gifting Liwu to us. ❤️ She is a cherished part of our breeding program.

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03/18/2025

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, bird flu) was detected in two cats and a suspected third cat over the past two months in New York City after consuming raw food. Testing for these NYC cases of HPAI were performed at the Cornell Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, and confirmatory testing done by the U.S.D.A. National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVLS) is pending. The cats were hospitalized and two of them died as a result of their infection.

“We continue to closely monitor the situation involving the recent identification of two cats presumptively diagnosed with HPAI in New York City. We will utilize all of our resources to rapidly disseminate information pertaining to these cases to both veterinary professionals and the cat-loving public as we become aware of it. In the interim, cat owners can help protect their cats from HPAI infections by refraining from feeding their cats foods containing any raw dairy or meat (poultry and beef) products," says Dr. Bruce Kornreich, director of the Cornell Feline Health Center.

Tips for pet owners:
• Avoid feeding pets raw food or raw milk
• If you pet has eaten raw food and shows sign of sickness, call your vet immediately and isolate from other pets (see clinical signs below).
• Keep your cats indoors
• If you are walking your dog, avoid dead or sick animals

Clinical signs in cats may include the following:
• Loss of appetite
• Lethargy
• Fever
• Neurologic signs (ataxia, circling, tremors, seizures, sudden blindness)
• Copious oculonasal discharge
• Difficulty breathing

For more information visit the Cornell University Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Resource Center, linked below.
https://hubs.ly/Q03c92vF0

You can read the full NYC Health Department press release by clicking the link below.
https://hubs.ly/Q03c97kB0

03/17/2025

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of our owners, friends, and followers! 🍀 💛🧡

We are very excited to annouce that in the coming weeks, we will welcome our first litters of 2025, after an extended seasonal break! We cannot wait to share our newest arrivals with all of you!

To those who’ve inquired about our kittens and joining our waiting list: we have a minimum of a 6+ month wait for our kittens, and have very limited space on our waiting list available for the remainder of 2025. We have a couple spots open on our overflow waiting list for our planned Spring/Summer waiting list, and have opened our Fall/Winter waiting list. However, we dont have plans for many litters later in the year, therefore I anticipate filling completely in the not too distant future. We have opened our Spring/Summer 2026 waiting list open as well. If you are interested in bringing home one of our kittens in the next year, now is the time to reach out to us and reserve your spot.

To those of you who are waiting for emails/social media messages to be returned: I am currently months behind in correspondences. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the healthiest winter and was recently sick with the flu. I am working daily to chip away and get to everyone in my typical thorough manner while also preparing for busy months ahead. I appreciate all of your constant support, love and more than ever, your patience! 💐

This year, we are celebrating 23 years of breeding our Ragdolls, and this week is the 22nd anniversary of our very first cat show!

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01/15/2025

We had a great time this past weekend at the Central Jersey TICA Show held at “the Castle”. Always one of my very favorite shows that I aim to make it to each year. I haven’t had anyone “too serious” to show over the past couple years, so we took out 3 of our girls to try and add to their titles- and they all did very well among a large, quality class of 11 Ragdolls. The breed wins and finals were pretty well spread among the competition, which was great so everyone got a bit of recognition (I counted that of the 11 Ragdolls, 9 of them were Best of Breed in at least one ring)! It was a great show to see some friends I haven’t seen it quite a while- but there wasn’t enough free time to catch up with so many, which was a shame! ❤️

TICA RW DGC WillowTreeRags Sweet Peach, our 3.5+ yr old Seal Tortie Point Bicolor female attended the show and brought home 4 Best of Breeds and 3 finals!
TICA CH WillowTreeRags Pixie, our 2.5+ yr old Seal Torbie Point Bicolor female attended the show and brought home 2 Best of Breeds and 2 Finals.
TICA CH WillowTreeRags White Lotus, our 1.8 yr old Blue Point Bicolor female attended the show and brought home a Best of Breed but unfortunately wasn’t called back for a final.
Each of our girls placed in breed many times throughout the weekend.

A highlight was being able to cheer on WillowTreeRags Galaxy of Ragpurfect and see her bring home 7 finals at just 5 months old and a female. I’m excited for her future. 🏆 Thank you so much to my friend Lois Miu for taking her out and showing her proudly. ❤️

I attached some of my favorite videos from judging/finals. I particularly like the commentary by TICA Judge Adriana Kajon on Peach, as well as our other two girls, and I appreciate her time spent on trying to thoroughly evaluate each Ragdoll. Thank you to ALL of the judges who found our kitties worthy of their finals- we know the completion was stiff among each class and each final was very much appreciated!

01/07/2025

The very stunning WillowTreeRags Beethoven, all grown up! ❤️ I just love his correct Ragdoll type, proper large oval eyes and that rich and intense Seal point color! 😍

Thank you for loving him every step of the way and taking great care of him Charmingwtdolls cattery!

Sire: TICA RW SGC Hush Money Eleedolls
Dam: KozyRags Frida of WillowTreeRags (sired by TICA OS RW SGC/CFA GC WillowTreeRags Apollo Amado)

My my my !!! Which gentleman is this !!!!

12/30/2024

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/health/how-to-protect-your-cats-from-catching-bird-flu

Bird flu has been spreading for years in wild birds, chickens, turkeys and many other animals but the death of an Oregon house cat is raising questions about the ongoing outbreak and how people can protect their pets.