Beware of Ragdoll Breeder Scams: Spot Fraud from "RAGDOLL FAMILY" & "Ragdoll Giants"

Current Ragdoll Breeder Scams Online – on Websites, Facebook, Instagram and More

BUYER BEWARE: There are a lot of Ragdoll breeder and kitten scams online. We keep a running list of the ones we know about here. But, there are new ones popping up daily. Please email us if you have concerns about a breeder you are considering adopting from.

A reader once wrote me and said, “Ordinarily, the work of a pet scammer is intrinsically evil. They trade on the powerful emotion of love & tenderness towards an animal – a pet; a companion. Because of that I view them at the level of pedophiles, rapists, pederasters, and slightly above the status of serial killers..

But because they operate in the wide swells of the internet sewer this sort of detritus is of no interest and not worthy of policing apprehending, convicting and jailing- substantial effort/ expenditure of resources for little gain. I view pet scammers, in reality, like I do cockroaches. They are hideous, they are alarming when you encounter them BUT as hard as you try to exterminate them, they just continue to reappear in your bathroom, garage, etc.

The BBB post on this topic suggested that up to 90% of all listings submitted from a google search like “ragdolls for sale” are fraudulent – in some way or other. The other fact that surprised me was: the center of Pet scam operations is in Cameroon, West Africa.”

List of Scam Websites I Know About – Check Out Scams on Facebook Below

Believe me, there are many more than this (and some scammers use legitimate breeders’ names – so be sure to check the website link – as it can be different than the cattery name – they’re getting tricky).

• Adorable Ragdoll Cattery or Ragdoll Kittens for Homes
• AMAIZING RAGDOLL CATTERY or Amazing Ragdoll Cattery
• Angels Ragdolls Home
• Anne Ragdoll Kitten Home
• ATREYU KATZ RAGDOLLS HOME
• BLUE EYED CHARMS RAGDOLL CATTERY
• Blue Eyed Temptations Ragdolls Cattery
• Blue Moon Family Ragdoll Breeders
• Celebrity Ragdoll Home
• CERTIFIED RAGDOLL KITTEN HOME
• CHRISTINAH RAGDOLLS HOME
• Coast Ragdolls – https://coastragdolls.com/
• Cristar Ragdoll Cattery
• Daniel Ragdoll Kitten
• DELUNA’S RAGDOLL KITTENS HOME
• Elegant Ragdoll Cattery
• Ellis Ragdolls
• FRIENDLY RAGDOLLS HOME
• Healthy Ragdoll Kittens
• HENDRY RAGDOLL KITTENS FOR SALE
• HOME OF RAGDOLL KITTEN 
• Good Ragdoll Kittens
• Katty Fluffy Ragdoll Kittens for Sale
• Kimberly Ragdolls
• Kittens Booth
• Lee Ragdoll Breeders
• Lilac Ragdoll Kittens Home
• Linda Ragdoll Home
• Lisa Ragdoll Kittens
• Luna Ragdolls Home
• Manifold Ragdoll Kittens
• Marvelous Ragdoll Kitties
• Meridian Family Cattery
• MO Ragdoll Kitten Website – “They say they are in Arlington, TX and the woman I have been emailing with is Shanimia Martin” – also known as “Ragdoll Kittens MO”
• Mountain Top Ragdoll Kittens
• Moon Light Ragdoll Kittens
• Noble Ragdoll Kittens Family
• Peace Ragdoll Kittens
• Precious Ragdolls
• Premier Ragdoll Kittens
• Premium Ragdolls
• Premium RagDoll Kittens Home (this is a kitten scam website. The same scammer has multiple puppy scam websites as well.)
• Rag-Ragdoll Breeder County
• Ragdoll & American Shorthair Kittens Home
• RAGDOLL AND AMERICAN SHORTHAIR KITTENS HOME
• Ragdoll Kittens For Sale or Ragdoll Kitten Sales
• Ragdoll Kittens for Homes – or Adorable Ragdoll Cattery
• Ragdoll Kittens Sales
• Ragdoll Kitties Home
• RAGDOLL KITTEN HOME CATTERY or Home of Ragdoll Kittens Cattery
• Ragdoll Kitty Shop – Ragdoll Pet Shop
• Ryleighs Ragdoll Kittens
• THE RAGDOLL MANSION
• Santa Claus Kittens
• Seal Point Ragdoll Kittens Breeders
• Sky Ragdolls
• Submissive Blue Eyes Ragdolls
• Supreme Ragdolls Home
• Terry Ragdoll Kitten Home

Need Help Figuring Out if a Website Is a Scam?

ℹ️ You can always contact us, if you are wondering if the breeder you’re interested in is a legitimate breeder.  Please send us a link to their website, and we can check it out for you.

⚠️ WARNING SIGNS TO LOOK FOR: ⚠️

• CHEAP KITTENS – a reputable, legitimate breeder is not ever going to sell Ragdoll kittens for cheap. Why? They are running a business and they have fees, expenses, etc. for those first 12 weeks of the kittens’ lives as well as the well-being of the kitten’s mother. Check out reasonable Ragdoll cat prices right now.
  • 50% OFF ALL KITTENS TODAY
  • $600 each and free shipping – that’s crazy cheap and “free shipping” is as if they are a commodity that’s made in a factory.
• Misspellings: “We’re giving an excptional discount this week, so be amongst the lucky ones who get a Kitten at 50% off.”
• Poor English – “Ragdoll Home is highly known for breeding and nurturing Kittens in a loving and caring manner, and we give them out to a true loving family who cares much about them.” – No native English speaking breeder is going to name their cattery or reference their cattery as “Ragdoll Home”
  • I say “native English speaker” because these scams are done mostly by people outside of the USA and Canada
• Discrepancies in what is on the website vs. what the breeder says in emails: “He said his name is Steven Andrew but reviews on the website only mention someone named “Troy”. He also says he is located in Harrisburg, PA – note discrepancy above.”
• A Shopping Cart – where you can checkout and buy a kitten today – No legitimate, reputable breeder will have “Buy Now” on their available kittens’ page. A real breeder cares about the breed, the cats as living beings and wouldn’t have a “shopping cart” type of set up.
• Trust Your Gut – When it feels wrong – it’s usually wrong
• Addresses don’t match – “The zip code they gave me for their address doesn’t match their city/state.”
• Payment – if it’s through ZELLE or some other way you can never get your money back. “This company doesn’t accept PayPal and have numerous spelling/grammatical errors in their correspondence.”
• Freight Company – they have a freight company that you also have to pay to have the kitten shipped. This is not how reputable breeders work. Example: “I’d like to inform you that https://www.lunaragdollhome.com/ is a fake ragdoll breeder and they “work” with https://expressglobalcargomover.com/ to move “kittens”. They scammed my mother out of $3,000 USD in total, $1,000 for the “kitten”, $2,000 for the “shipping”. They tried getting another $2,500 in “quarantine” fees for “3 months”.”
• Additional Fees – Most legitimate breeders are up front with all fees, etc. A Floppycats reader spoke about these extra fees more eloquently, “The pet scammer enterprise is done primarily over the internet; they maintain anonymity, they promise all kinds of goodies, and they con the unwary out a $1000 or more a pop.  I found it interesting but not surprising – when they found a “mark”; extracted cash from their mark; they will come again for another hit on the poor mark- via an “extortion fee” to get their pets out of quarantine or some sort of emergency during transport of the animal. Marks are a gift that just keeps on giving.”
• Content is copied from elsewhere – a lot of times they will copy content from a legitimate Maine Coon breeder’s website and then just switch our “Maine Coon” for “Ragdoll” – so if you see something along those lines, you know it’s a scam.
• Odd Cattery Names – Many of these cattery names are targeting keywords that are entered in Google by users, not a NAME a person would name their cattery. So “Healthy Ragdoll Breeders” is a very odd name for a native English speaker to choose
• Young Kittens – 10 weeks old – no legitimate, reputable breeder lets kittens go before 12 weeks
• .ORGs – No breeder would have a .org website – that’s for official 5013c organizations, like the Red Cross.
• Ads – A legitimate, reputable breeder does not put ads online, on Craigslist, on Facebook, on recycler.com – they have a running waitlist. And they attract new kitten buyers through social media (by posting their litters, etc.) or through referrals or through website searches (if their site is set up well for search engine optimization)

New Facebook Scams

A reader submitted these screenshots on Jan 30/31, 2022 saying, “Notice the date on right hand corner of ultra sound. New pregnancy announcement. But date on Ultra sound is August 18 (of God knows what year). even if it was just this past August, those babies should have been born by now. Here is another one. Same ultra sound photo. “

Here is a scammer using a photo of me with kittens at a legitimate breeder’s house from years ago. This is catfishing at it’s finest.

The reader who sent me these photos decided to have some fun with this catfish to see what unraveled. She said, “Omg! She is trying to pass herself off as you. She is saying she is from Washington. I asked if that was the litter she was holding in profile pic. she said yes . I said she looked like a proud Momma and she said she appreciates me saying that. Then she gets pushy about buying the kitten at crazy low price. claims kittens are now 7 weeks but photo was posted in November. ??????? She even said they are desexed. at 7 weeks??”

Here’s that conversation:

Jump to:

• Current Ragdoll Breeder Scams Online – on Websites, Facebook, Instagram and More
• List of Scam Websites I Know About – Check Out Scams on Facebook Below
• Need Help Figuring Out if a Website Is a Scam?
• ⚠️ WARNING SIGNS TO LOOK FOR: ⚠️
• New Facebook Scams
• I was scammed by www.ryleighsragdollkittens.com
• I was scammed by www.leeragdoll.com
• How to Spot a Pet Scammer
• Kimberly Ragdolls is a fraudulent breeder website
• RAGDOLL CATTERY HOME is another Ragdoll breeder scam website.
• Supreme Ragdolls Home! is another Ragdoll kitten scam website.
• Cristar Ragdoll Cattery is another Ragdoll Breeder Kitten Scam website
• Yet another Ragdoll breeder scam / fraudulent website – Ragdoll Kitty Shop – Ragdoll Pet Shop
• Another Ragdoll breeder scam / fraud – Premium Ragdolls.
• How To Spot A Ragdoll Cattery Scam Website
• How to Find a Reputable Ragdoll Cat Breeder:

June 2, 2021

I was scammed by www.ryleighsragdollkittens.com

April 13, 2021

I was scammed by www.leeragdoll.com

How to Spot a Pet Scammer

Here’s the latest – Precious Ragdolls using my photo of Charlie, Trigg and me that’s in the footer of our website.  I am not married and have never been – and they stole the content below the photo from another breeder’s website.

Often times, they will steal from a Maine Coon breeder’s website and then just replace “Maine Coon” with “Ragdoll”.  You can always copy and paste a few sentences of the content and put it between ” ” in Google’s search bar to see where else it appears on the web.

You can tell they stole it from Ragdolls Above All.

Update September 19, 2020

Kimberly Ragdolls is a fraudulent breeder website

Update September 2, 2020

RAGDOLL CATTERY HOME is another Ragdoll breeder scam website.

Update August 3, 2020

Supreme Ragdolls Home! is another Ragdoll kitten scam website.

Update July 23, 2020

Cristar Ragdoll Cattery is another Ragdoll Breeder Kitten Scam website

UPDATE – July 4, 2020

Yet another Ragdoll breeder scam / fraudulent website – Ragdoll Kitty Shop – Ragdoll Pet Shop

UPDATE – June 28, 2020

Another Ragdoll breeder scam / fraud – Premium Ragdolls.

Doing the same as this one below, but using a photo of my sister with our parents’ cats on their Premium Ragdolls Cattery’s fake and fraudulent website:

How To Spot A Ragdoll Cattery Scam Website

Another scammer website using a photo of my sister and me with my parents’ Ragdoll cats. Wish there was a way to prosecute these people. Here was another one – Jasmine Ragdoll Kitten – Ragdoll Breeder SCAM.

These are people that do not have kittens – they are stealing people’s photos, content from other legitimate breeder’s websites and creating a brand new website from it. Claiming they have kittens – and then screwing people out of their money. They use keywords like, “Professional Ragdoll Cat breeders” or “Purebred Ragdolls” to help their website be found on Google. And innocent people that are looking to buy a Ragdoll kitten, find it – see all the pretty photos and get suckered into buying one because they make the website look legitimate with a purchase agreement, shipping guarantee and more.  But there is a lot of misspellings and you can find the content they post on other breeder’s websites. For example, they copied and pasted the content on their Shipping and Guarantee page from a Savannah cat breeder.

I HATE wasting Floppycats site’s content on something like this. I HATE spending my time on something like this. BUT I HATE scams and frauds and especially those that involve animals even more.

I am hoping this post will make them stop and also make others stop that might be doing the same. They will probably change their name by the time this posts – but they have used “RAGDOLL FAMILY” or “Ragdoll Giants” so far.  Please let me know what other names they use. I posted about this scam two weeks ago on Facebook – you can see the discussion here:

How to Find a Reputable Ragdoll Cat Breeder:

Here are the pages on the site that you might find helpful:

• Ragdoll Breeders
• Recommended Ragdoll Breeders
• Bad Ragdoll Breeders
• How to Know if a Cat Breeder is Reputable: An Interview with Bette Willette

• Ragdoll Cat Breeders
• Floppycats’ Reader Recommended Ragdoll Breeders
• Bad Ragdoll Breeders
• How to Know if a Cat Breeder is Reputable: An Interview with Bette Willette

You can always contact us, if you are wondering if the breeder you’re interested in is a legitimate breeder.  Please send us a link to their website, and we can check it out for you.