Raggie Fact Files!

Fact files on owning a Raggie like me and experiences by fellow Raggie owners... Also applicable to me

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While some of these facts apply to all purrfect puddies some of these really are only just what we raggies do.

Toes poking out of the bed at 4am are a viable target for biting. Oh yeah baby!

• We Raggies do need grooming, all the time, despite what all the books say.
•  If you're trying to do something where you need to concentrate, we will try to help.
•  Raggies are not quiet and demand attention at all times.

Raggies make excellent hot water bottles, even in the middle of summer.

• Raggies can climb up loft ladders.
•  Raggies cannot climb down loft ladders. 
• We should really come with an addiction warning!

 If it is on the floor it has to be a toy.

 

•   Anytime is playtime to a Raggie, regardless of what time it is!
• Window sills are for falling off.
• You will never wear black clothes again - cream/white is the new black!

Slippers are for putting things in, namely bits of paper, toys etc.

• Water bowls are designed to be tipped over!
• Klingons! Ragdolls often leave the litter tray with.. I wont say anymore!
• You will never be able to cook/eat a piece of fish/chicken in peace ever again.

Once our humans have acquired a comfy seat on the sofa to watch a movie, ALWAYS ensure you have enough drink and snacks to get you through or you WILL lose your warm comfy seat to us Raggies.

• If it moves it's fair game!
•  If it doesn't move............why not?
•  You spend a fortune on fluff remover rollers (and refills).

We Raggies do a flop which occurs wherever and whenever, but most usually in your way!

•   If I stick claws through curtains how fast can mummy run the distance to un-attach?
•  Any open door or drawer WILL result in us Raggies meowing to be be freed 5 minutes later.
• No matter which make of cat litter you buy, it still smells!

    We like to be involved in everything you do - including bathing!

• No matter how quietly you think you've opened a tin of food or the tin of biscuits.. you still need to stand clear of the stampede. 
•  Fur lined everything is not optional! It just happens anyway!
• Window restrictors may be child proof but they are not Raggie proof!

    Don't expect to get a clear view of the PC monitor while us raggies are awake.

• The mouse cursor must be chased! Well it is a mouse after all!
•   Laptops do give off heat so be prepared for 'Raggie a la Dell'!

Raggies love to chew electrical wires and cables.

•  We Raggies think we are invisible - this applies mainly when trying to steal food from your dinner plate ! Nope sure they can't see me...
• Vases of flowers have to be destroyed, Raggies don't give in until they are!

We will lie at the bottom of the stairs waiting for you to fall over us.

•   Walking into the kitchen means of course that you've gone in there to feed us!
• The one thing you should remember is what's yours is mine and what's mines my own and don't forget it!

You need to buy waterproof flooring ... We Raggies love sticking our paws in water bowls and splashing!

•  Nice, clean and freshly polished glass dining tables are just crying out for tiny pawprints!
•  Expect to waste loads and loads of time marvelling in us babies and giving us brushes and cuddles and playtimes - hours every day in fact, the more the better! You won't have any time left to do anything else!

You can't write anything - pens are toys, silly!

• You will never leave your back door/front door/windows open for fresh air in the summer - raggies are like houdini trying to get out!
• You no longer have a show home, if you ever had one before. Toy mice, toy fish, bottle lids, bits of paper, fluff, cat litter and cat food, which obviously tastes far better after being lifted from food bowl onto the floor, can be found scattered everywhere.

Wrapping presents are now only a vague memory for you.......buy plenty of pretty boxes for gifts and buy labels that clearly state.........any Ragdoll found in this gift is to be returned to it's owner post-haste!

• You lovely furry rug is just a plaything, to be pulled up so that all the tufts fall out, and then just rolled all over.
• Expect to give up your seat and be quiet when us baby's (sorry Raggies) are sleeping!!!

You should feel guilty everytime you leave the house as there are one pair of blue eyes looking at you pitifully!

•  People owned by Raggies are at serious risk of heart failure, if anyone leaves an outside door open. More risk occurs when said owner runs around the house in search of Raggies which have gone to sleep in the only place you didn't consider looking in! More risk of looking like you need some pyschological therapy when tearing around the garden calling our Raggies' names and panicking in sheer terror, only to find your Raggie half an hour later curled up, totally oblivious to it all, in the open draw under the bed!!
• Mummy's head is for sitting on!

Your bed is no longer your own, and how dare you even try to suggest to a Raggie that you want them to move over so you can get in it!

• When your on the phone we wont stop meowing at you.. How dare you talk to someone other than me!
• Expect to be much poorer for all the toys we get through and ones you "have" to buy us just because you do

If you're lying on the sofa or in bed, watching tv, you can't see - as we don't care if we lie in your view of the screen.

• You will always have some-one to share your indulgent cream cake with.
•   All litter tracks.................Raggies have rabbit-style paws.
• Deal with the fact that owning a Ragdoll is like having a child that never grows up (even if it is at at 4.30 in the morning).

We will charge at you when you try to eat anything wrapped in silver foil - particularly KitKats and Roses/Quality street! And in my case Cadburys Creme Eggs!!!

•   Its no good running out of the usual brand of food and thinking you can give them us a tin of something else from the local shop.... it plays havock with our tummies, resulting in worse smells from litter trays, not to mention unpleasant sound effects!
•   If it's on the bedside table it won't be for long.

If you are on the loo, Raggie wants to come on too.  Even your guests can expect to be escorted to the loo when they visit!

• Your glass of water was made for sharing, especially when you're asleep, but you don't realise until you drink some and find loads of hairs floating in it!
• You can never ever read a book on your own again, without a little Raggie climbing up under the book looking for attention. Peekabooo!

Most Of All - We know our big blue eyes really can get us whatever we want!

 And last of all....your friends think you've gone totally mad as all you do is talk about us Raggies and how wonderful we are. Its not an option either, you just can't stop yourself!

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