Trigg – a Blue Lynx Mitted Ragdoll Cat

Meet Trigg, a blue lynx mitted Ragdoll.  I adopted him in November 2009. Floppycats.com readers were introduced to Trigg in August 2009 when I decided to adopt Charlie and Trigg. He is adopted from Lora Tesh of Soulmate Ragdolls in Salisbury, NC. He was born August 19, 2009. His parents are Truly and Tango from Soulmate Ragdolls (see their photos below). I found Charlie and Trigg on Soulmate Ragdolls website when searching for relatives of my first cat and the reason for this website, Rags. Although he is not a Seal Mitted Ragdoll like Rags, I liked the Blue Lynx Mitted look and wanted the old Ragdoll lines.

His official name is Trigg. My sister named him. I was dating a guy who was a high school calculus teacher, and my sister came up with the name because of trigonometry. As you know, I rarely call him Trigg, though – it’s mostly Chiggy, with a “Tink, Tink”, or “Gauy” mixed in. I often say, “There he is” to him – but it comes out more like, “Der he is!” He knows and responds to all of my nicknames for him.

Chiggy is an easy cat.  I mean, EASY.  He always eats what is served to him, he doesn’t bother me unless he is hungry…or if he wants to snuggle in the morning.  He causes little to no trouble (unless he is planning a Charlie take-down), rarely demands my attention and is genuinely happy and independent.  He’s just an easy cat.

It’s funny, my family will always joke with me, if they come over or if we’re at my parents’ lake house and say, “Don’t you have 2 cats?”  Chiggy is slow to trust people.  So he usually hides.  He also hides with dogs. He loves my mom and me.  He loves my mom because he spent 2 weeks at her house when he was a kitten – if I have even been with my mom and hugged her (and have her perfume on me as a result), he will want to smell me because of it. He also likes my sister and her husband.  But that’s about the limit to the folks’ he trusts – oh yes, our cat sitter too =).  But that took some time – I still remember getting a text from her in England telling me that Chiggy let her pet him. He’s a scaredy cat in a lot of ways – but then not a scaredy cat about ceiling fans and vacuums like Charlie is.  I love, though, that Floppycatters can see the real Chiggy through our Ragdoll cat videos – as so many people don’t get to see the real Chiggy.

He’s also a very funny cat. He still manages to always make me smile on a daily basis.  He has a mouse squeak sounding meow. He is very quirky, and that’s what usually makes me laugh daily – whether it’s sliding himself off the couch, or awkwardly twisting his head as he gets up from sleeping, he is quirky and funny.  I often tell him I want to visit Chiggy’s world – seems like a happy, peaceful and fun place…and he doesn’t like when I interrupt Chiggy in Chiggy’s world… Chiggy has mastered the teenage girl evil eye – seriously.  I am pretty sure he was a teenage girl in a past life.  I coach middle school and high school girls’ field hockey, and believe me, some of his looks would give my field hockey girls a run for their money. Chiggy loves to snuggle in the mornings or late at night, always on his terms. It’s random and unexpected. It’s wonderful, as you can see.

I sleep with a fan on and when I turn off my fan in the morning, I will usually grab my phone and check my email before I get up to start my day. My cats DO NOT wake me up for breakfast – so they wait until I get up for the day. And Chiggy waits for me to turn off the fan, and then random mornings, he will leap (LEAP!) onto the bed and walk right up to me and stick his little face between my shoulder and my head and start purring and kneading into my pillow.

I usually position his body on top of me, equally. He’s in some sort of euphoria, so he doesn’t care what I do with his body.  I’ve never had a cat do this – and he only started doing it to me when he was like 3 or 4 or maybe later – I don’t recall exactly.

My childhood cat, Rags, and Trigg are related.  When my Rags was diagnosed with 2 weeks to live (he lived 3 months), I began to seriously search for my next cats in 2009.  I only knew who Rags’ father was – when we adopted Rags and his 1/2 brother, Cosby, the breeder didn’t know which kitten came from which mom – but they both had the same Dad, so we only knew for sure who Rags’ Dad was.

So I took Rags’ Dad’s name, Ragnaroks Thor, and began to search for breeding cats that had Thor in their lineage.  There were 5-6 breeders that I found that had breeding cats with Rags’ Dad’s lineage.  So, I started to watch their websites for kittens.  I am not good about putting down a deposit – I usually have to see the kitten to know in my gut if it’s mine or not.  However, with Trigg, I didn’t care – I only knew I wanted a male related to Rags.

So, when Charlie’s little face was starring back at me one night on the computer screen, I knew which breeder I would be getting Trigg from.  Trigg was in a different litter than Charlie, born to different parents. In his litter, there were two available males – his brother who was a blue lynx colorpoint and Trigg who was blue lynx mitted. 

I didn’t know those color patterns well at the time and remember Googling them to see what Trigg would look like. I told the breeder that I didn’t have preference as to whether or not he was mitted or not.  So the other person who had a deposit down chose Trigg’s brother, and I got Chiggy…and boy, am I am glad I did.  I love his mitts.

Trigg loves sweets.  They say cats don’t have taste receptors for tasting sweet…not sure if Chiggy applies to that.  He LOVES ice cream, and I just discovered he also loves marshmallows.

I mentioned earlier that Chiggy is an easy cat – that includes when we go outside.  Like my Rags, he will find one of his favorite spots and sit and watch the birds, insects and more.  Whereas, Charlie is constantly walking the perimeter of the yard.  Chiggy also pees outside on occasion which amuses me.

Chiggy has a great coat – and it stays about the same the entire year.  Charlie has a very distinctive winter and summer coat, but Chiggy does not.  Chiggy’s coat is most similar to what my Rags had – but he has more flat hairs on his back towards his tail than my Rags did.  He also has delicious, fancy pantaloons.  His coat has a lot more oil in it than Charlie’s and consequently doesn’t mat like Charlie’s.

Speaking of fancy, Chiggy is a very fancy cat.  He rubs against everything and arches his back when he does so.  My mom recently said, “Jenny, all he does is rub everything.”  Ha ha.   He’s very much a cat – he’s the most true cat I have had…does a lot of cat-stereotypical things like arching his back and rubbing things.

Chiggy is on his second German Shepherd – my parents’ 2-year old, Parker.  Previously he knew my parents’ Napa, RIP.  Charlie instantly knew how to deal with dogs – there was nothing to be done. Chiggy, however, wasn’t a dog fan – and he likes to show them how big and important he is, by showing them his side and arching his back.  If he lived with Parker, he would be friends with him.  He is very curious about dogs.  I won’t ever get a dog, unless a significant other wants one, so not sure if Chiggy will ever get that chance fully.

Everyone in my family thinks Chiggy is a stunning – we have never had a blue lynx mitted in my family (my mom’s side has 11 Ragdolls currently and we have had over 19 overall).  My mom always says how gorgeous he is.  My sister always tells him that he did a great job doing his make-up this morning and his white eye-liner really works well for him.  I agree that he is gorgeous – inside and out.

His Dad, Tango, and His Pedigree

His Mom, Truly, and Her Pedigree

Trigg’s Pedigree:

Rockinblues Argentine Tango, M, RAG n 04 21, 4/22/06

• Ragstar Derain of Rockinblues, RAG n 03, 10/8/96, AU/US
  • Ch Pandapaws Jo Jo of Kaiwara, RAG n, 5/1/94
    • Pandapaws Ebenezer, RAG n
    • Pandapaws Blue Mist, RAG a
  • Ch Kaiwara Aroha, RAG a 03, 3/14/92
    • GRC Petil-Lu Apari, RAG n 03
    • Ch Ragrose Miss Milly of Kaiwara, RAG a
• Soulmates Dynamo Hum of Rockblues, RAG n 04 21, 5/20/03
  • Ragnarok’s Ariel Zeus, RAG b 04 21, 2/19/97
    • Tuftytoes Joseph, RAG n 03 21, 2/23/93
    • Ragnarok’s Soanes Princess, RAG n 04, 9/20/91
  • Chatandolls Yukiko of Soulmates, RAG a 03, 1/6/98
    • TGC Chatandolls Satoshi, RAG a 03, 2/12/94
    • CH Chatandolls Umeyo, RAG n 03, 10/17/95

Soulmates Trigg, M, 8/19/09

Soulmates Truly Scrumptous, F, RAG n, 8/6/04

• Chatandolls Max of Eliterags, RAG a 04, 8/10/00
  • TGC Chatandolls Satoshi, RAG a 03, 2/12/94
    • SGC Ragnarok’s Elvis of Chatandolls, RAG a 03, 2/1/91
    • Chatandolls Oishii An, RAG a 04, 9/10/92
  • Chatandolls Keshi, RAG a 04, 4/27/99
    • QGC Dandenong Kazito San of Chatandolls, RAG n 04, 3/26/93
    • Ch Chatandolls Midori, RAG a 03, 2/12/94
• Soulmates Drucilla Dream, RAG n 03, 2/4/99
  • Ragnarok’s Ariel Zeus, RAG b 04 21, 2/19/97
    • Tuftytoes Joseph, RAG n 03 21, 2/23/93
    • Ragnarok’s Soanes Princess, RAG n 04, 9/20/91
  • Soulmates Felicity Fay, RAG a 04
    • SGC Catastrophe Errol Flynn of Pitterpaws, RAG a 03, 10/23/94
    • JJ’s Purrecious Jade, RAG b 04, 5/4/96

Ragdoll Kitten Trigg as a Baby

Ragdoll Kitten Trigg Videos

Trigg as an Adult Videos