1981 Ragdoll in Europe In this y

about 1985 first Ragdoll in Germany

In this year the first breeder, Ingeborg Kloeters with the cattery name “The New World Cat”, brought the race Ragdoll to Germany. She only sold her kitten to breeding programs and this only in pairs. At this time only the original Ragdoll existed (source: RFCI and VdOR-Dayton-genetic chart, breeder from those years…).
Also Ingeborg Kloeters informed all other breeders to send copies of the pedigrees to Danny Dayton to submit them, to make sure that the genetic chart could be continued without any gap, that the Ragdoll could still be bred purebred and that the Ragdoll is the only race with a database in which the datas of the cats were collected in one place and submitted there. Those Ragdolls belonged gapless to the founder stem because Dayton only submitted those kittens whose parents (ancestors) were already listed in the chart.
Thanks to the use of Dayton the Ragdoll is the only almost 50 years old race with a worldwide gapless list of ancestors

(source: VdOR-Dayton genetic chart).

about 1985 patent of tabby – refused
10 years after Ann Baker patented her race she tried to add other pattern (tabby) to her patent. This was refused by the office for patents (source: Defintiv Guide to Ragdol).

1986 IG-Ragdoll was founded
The community of interest for the Ragdoll was founded in Germany (IG-Ragdoll) by Karin Hughes-Dentler. Until about 1998 only the purebred Ragdolls were considered and supported (equal if people were breeders or only lovers of pets). She has given a commitment that the Ragdoll (the original Ragdoll of today) in its 3 versions was accepted by FIFé. Tina Röllin bred in the IG, only the original was wanted. Nowadays the IG-Ragdoll supports all versions and colors of the Ragdoll

(source: The Ragdoll, IG-Ragdoll).

1991 Solitär-database/cat blub Bavarian e.V. CFA
At this time the family Kellner founded the database “Solitär” and the cat blub Bavarian e.V, CFA. In the Solitär only the genuine/original Ragdoll was registered and this up to today. Only those Ragdoll breeders who only breed the original could get a member of the Bavarian

(source: HP Solitär/Bavarian).

1981 Ragdoll in Europe
In this year the first Ragdolls came over to Europe and to Great Britain. These were Ragdolls from the cattery Danny Dayton: “Blossom Time”. They went to the breeding program of Lulu Rowley with the cattery name “Petil-Lu”. The english breeder also were of course informed that they have to send copies of the pedigrees

to Danny Dayton

(source: Defintiv Guide to Ragdoll/RFCI and VdOR-genetic chart).

1984 testmatings for lilac (Great Britain)
The english women Pat Brownsel (“Patriarca” ) and Lulu Rowley (“Petil-Lu”) made a testmating between the boy of Danny Dayton, “Blossom Time Bananas” (in the color of lilac) and a lilac tortie Burma cat girl. They wanted to confirm that Bananas showed the color lilac. All 6 kitten from this mating were in the color of lilac (lilac x lilac only brings out lilac), 1 mitted, 1 bicolor, 4 tortie bicolor. With this it was proven that Bananas was a boy in the color of lilac! The breeder held back one of the tortie cats (Henriette). She mated her with a Ragdoll boy “Ragfairless Fred”. The result from this mating was a kitten in chocolate bicolor. With this is was proven that also "Ragfairless Fred” carried the chocolate gene. With this testmating the English breeder had the opportunity afterwards to breed targetedly on these 4 colors.
In the upcoming breeding years it was found that the boys “Blossom Time Lad”, “Blossom Time Romeo” and the girls “Blossom Time Sumer”, Blossom Time Spring” also “Blossom Time Camellia” carried the gene of chocolate. It is especially emphazised that the english people were very proud of their race. They never would have brought other races to the Ragdolls in those times. Those mixed race from these testmatings thus were never used for the breeding of the Ragdoll! (source: Pat Brownsel, about 2006/8).

All this shows us that those breeders knew about the genetics, that they knew how to find out by testmatings which Ragdoll carried the gene of chocolate and which not. Despite of these successes in showing the gene of chocolate (b) people in the german speaking area always claimed that the Ragdoll does not carry the gene of chocolate though some of the F1-generation showed b and many were carrier of b

(source: Defintiv Guide to Ragdoll/VdOR-Dayton-genetic chart).

1994 beginning of the RFCI database
Danny Dayton stopped to write the genetic chart for the Ragdoll. He handled over all the datas of the Ragdolls – including the submitted “Purple Heather” and “Blue Mountain”- Ragdolls - to his club, RFCI. Charley Myers transferred the datas from the Dayton-papers to a software on the PC. In addition to the ragdolls, that were bred purebred, also all other Ragdolls were submitted from which the ancestors were not known – including all other races that were brought into the Radgoll (as far as known) f.e. Himalayan, Birman, Persians, Balineses, experimental Shorthair, Exotic-Shorthair…(source: RFCI-genetic chart).

1994 separation Ragdoll / RagaMuffin
Until this time breeders tried again and again (especially in the USA) to bring other races into the Ragdoll in order to get other colors and pattern. Breeders of the group “purebred Ragdolls” and those of the group “Ragdolls of new crossbred races” quarreled with each other. To simplify we call the the other group (Ragdolls of new crossbred races) new Ragdoll (nR). Half of the nR-breeder decided to give a new name to their Ragdolls: they are known today as “RagaMuffin”. They are recognized in the following counries of Europe: Hungary – FAMKAT / Austria = OERCC / Germany = WFU, read: www.ragamuffins.eu.
To the chagrin of the original line (the Original-Ragdoll of nowadays) all the other nR were written down in the pedigrees under the name “Ragdoll”

(source: RFCI-genetic chart).

1995 “The definitive guide to Ragdolls”
In this year the book “The Definitve Guide to Ragdolls” by Lorna Walace, Robin Dickering and David Rollard was published. For their resuearches they visited the founder of the Ragdoll, Ann Baker, and the first and longtime breeder Danny und Laura Dayton, David and Georgann Chambers. Though the breeders of the Ragdoll knew about the most important things (by breeders and clubs) also a lot of new things could be read.

1995 the Ragdoll with the new colors in the breeding program
It was unfortunately time: the first nR (Ragdolls of new colors because of crossbred) came to the breeding programs also in Europe. But they were still not yet recognized

(source: RAG).

1995 foundation of RAG
On 25 of June the RAG - “Ragdoll Arbeitsgemeinschaft” - e.V.” was founded. This club looks

after all Ragdolls, equal in which color or patter (including mink, sepia, solid)

(source: RAG).