I reside in sunny Clearwater, Florida with my Ragdoll family, where I am a small, hobby breeder/exhibitor. I began breeding/showing my Ragdolls in 1999. I provide a five-year genetic written contract and a lifetime HCM guarantee. I do this because I have every confidence in the soundness of my Ragdolls and the bloodlines with which I work. My Ragdolls, who are raised in my home underfoot, have become my extended family and an integral part of my life. After much research, I decided that the Ragdoll was the cat for me, with their loving, docile and placid temperaments and dog-like qualities. I would like to thank the families who have adopted my babies over the years, and provided them with such loving homes. Their respective moms and dads and I thank each and every one of you for your pictures, cards and friendship, and most importantly for loving my babies and taking such wonderful care of them! Thank you!
I decided to breed and show Ragdolls because they are the most dog-like of all the cat breeds. When I was married, I bred and exhibited German Shepherd dogs, so taking care of animals and exhibiting has been an integral part of my life. With my caregiver personality (having taken care of my father for 18 months before he passed away in my home), I have found my niche in life, and am proud to say that my mommies/daddies and I have now produced FORTY-FOUR (44) CFA Grand Champions. Congratulations to Grand Champion Bordeaux LTD's Sassafras of Sal-Shire, our newest Grand Champion making it 44 Grand Champions/Grand Premiers that our girls and boys have produced, lovingly owned by Sallie Dubay! Thank you Sallie for Granding Sassy!! During the month of September 2011, we are proud to announce our 43rd CFA Grand Champion: Grand Champion Bordeaux LTD's Lindy LuLu, who is litter sister to Grand Champion WalkinTheSand ("Sandy"). We are proud to announce three more CFA Grand Champions in one weekend in August 2011 at a CFA show: Grand Champion Bordeaux LTD's Disco Danny (our 40th), Grand Champion Bordeaux LTD's WalkinTheSand (our 41st) and Grand Premier Bordeaux LTD's Nilla Alina (a two-show Grand Premier; our 42nd Grand Champion)! Nilla is lovingly owned by Jennifer Hoffman! Congratulations to Jim Flanik of Ohio and our 39th Grand Champion, Grand Premier, Regional Winner (RW) Bordeaux LTD's Enzo Purrari -- Enzo is a two-show Grand Premier. Beautifully shown by his loving owner, Jim Flanik. Thank you for not only loving your best buddy Enzo so much, but for showing Enzo and obtaining his Grand Premier title. Our 38th Grand Champion is a Grand Champion Risky Bizness/Grand Champion Katy Did son: Grand Champion Jackie BeGood! Our 37th Grand Champion is Grand Champion, Regional Winner (RW) Bordeaux LTD's Sunshine Kidd ("Sunny"), who is a Grand Champion Gingerbread Cookie son. Sunny now lives in Taiwan with Frank and Angela! Our 36th Grand Champion is Grand Champion Bordeaux LTD's Genuine Whiskey ("Whiskey"), who now resides in Taiwan with Walter Hsieh of Green Gable Ragdolls. We are so proud to announce that Grand Champion Risky Bizness, DM ("Risky") has now attained the title of Distinguished Merit (DM) for producing 15 CFA Grand Champions/Grand Premiers (now he has produced 17)! I am so proud of Risky! For the show season ending April 24, 2011 (beginning May 1, 2010), I am proud to announce the following wonderful accomplishments for some of our Bordeaux Ragdolls. Thank you Jim Flanik, loving owner of Enzo, for accomplishing such wonderful wins during a short two-month timeframe as a new CFA Exhibitor! I am so proud of you and Enzo!!!! And to top it off, they are campaigning again this show season! Good luck to Jim and Enzo!  2011: CFA's 3rd Best of Breed Ragdoll in World, 21st Best Champion and Best Ragdoll in Southern Region (Sunny)
2011: CFA's 23rd Best Premier in Great Lakes Region, 2nd Best Ragdoll Kitten and 3rd Best Ragdoll Alter in World (Enzo)
2011: CFA's 6th Best Ragdoll Champion in World, 40th Best Champion in Great Lakes Region (Jackie)
2011: CFA's 9th Best Ragdoll in World & 2nd Best Ragdoll Champion in Southern Region (Whiskey)
2011: CFA's 30th Best Ragdoll Champion in World (Disco Danny)
2011: CFA's 40th Best Ragdoll Champion and 10th Best Ragdoll Kitten in World (HNS MidnightBlues)
My Grand Champion, Regional Winner Bordeaux LTD's Just A Suzie Q ("Suzie Q" who is the Ragdoll pictured at the top of this page) attained the coveted title of Distinguished Merit ("DM") in CFA, meaning she's produced five CFA Grand Champions Bordeaux LTD Bailey of GrandeEstate, Bordeaux LTD's Just A Bar-B Doll, Bordeaux LTD's Just A QP Doll, Bordeaux LTD's Just A Chyna Doll and Bordeaux LTD's Just A Dash 'O Magic. As of November 2008, Suzie Q produced Seven (7) CFA Grand Champions, with her two altered sons, Grand Premiers Just A Dusty Dan and Just A Dallas Forty, ataining their Grand Premier titles! Like her mom, Silhouette, Suzie Q makes the second generation of a DM mom! For the show season ending April 30, 2010, we showed very limitedly only in the months of May and June, and are proud that Grand Champion Gingerbread Cookie ("Cookie") was CFA's 6th Best of Breed Ragdoll in the World. Cookie needed to have babies and produced Champion Sunshine Kidd (see above). GC, RW Bordeaux LTD's Buttons 'N Bows ("Buttons") came out of retirement at the age of 7 and won 10th Best of Breed Ragdoll in the World. She says enough is enough, mom!
For the show season ending April 30, 2009, we are proud to announce that GC, RW Bordeaux LTD Bailey of GrandeEstate, bred by Bordeaux Ragdolls and lovingly owned by Susan Torney of Randolph, NJ, was 2nd Best of Breed Ragdoll in CFA in the World with 5,407.15 regional points, loosing the Best of Breed Ragdoll award by only 232.50 regional points. Bailey also won the following: Regional Winner (RW) title by placing 9th Best Cat in the North Atlantic Region and 40th Best Cat Nationally in the World. Additionally, GC Bordeaux LTD's Gingerbread Cookie ("Cookie") was 8th Best Ragdoll in CFA in the World, with very limited showing by Susan! Thank you Susan! To top it off, we had FIVE Grand Champions during this one-year period, and Sandollrags Walker of Bordeaux LTD was 6th Best Ragdoll Kitten, GP Bordeaux LTD's Dusty Dan was 7th Best Ragdoll Kitten (and 12th Best Grand Premier Ragdoll) and his brother, GP Bordeaux LTD's Dallas Forty, was 12th Best Ragdoll Kitten and 14th Best Grand Premier Ragdoll, both with very limited showing! For the show season ending April 30, 2008, my Grand Champion Bar-B Doll attained the title in CFA of 3rd Best of Breed Ragdoll in the World and my Ragdoll kitten, Bordeaux LTD's Gingerbread Cookie ("Cookie"), who is now a CFA Grand Champion, was CFA's Best of Breed Ragdoll Kitten in the World. Cookie is now my 32nd CFA Grand Champion! Also, Grand Champion Bordeaux LTD's Just A Dash 'O Magic ("Magic" now lives with Lise Cardinal in Canada) was CFA's 5th Best of Breed Ragdoll in the World! For the show season ending April 30, 2007 in CFA, our Grand Champion Bordeaux LTD's Buttons 'N Bows was CFA's 25th Best Cat in the Southern Region and 2nd Best Ragdoll in the World (and Best Ragdoll in the Southern Region), and Grand Champion Bordeaux LTD's Just A Karbon Kopy was CFA's 3rd Best Ragdoll in the World (and 2nd Best Ragdoll in the Southern Region). Grand Premier Bordeaux LTD's R-U-Macon Biscuits was CFA's 4th Best Ragdoll Alter in the World and Best Ragdoll Alter in the Southern Region. What a great show season! I have had three separate litters of babies; of which, three kittens/cats in each of these three litters have become CFA Grand Champions; attesting to the quality of both my moms and their respective husbands! For the CFA show season ending April 30, 2006, my 14th Grand Champion Bordeaux LTD's Just a Katy Did was CFA's Best of Breed Ragdoll in the World, 15th Best Cat in the Southern Region of CFA and Best Ragdoll in the Southern Region. Katy is the repeat of my Grand Champion and Regional Winner Bordeaux LTD's Just a Suzie Q. During that same show season in CFA, my Grand Champion Rowdy was 3rd Best of Breed Ragdoll Internationally and 2nd Best of Breed Ragdoll in the Southern Region of CFA. My Grand Premier Kitt 'N Boots was CFA's 2nd Best Ragdoll Alter in the World (and Best Ragdoll Alter in the Southern Region) and Grand Premier Macon Biscuits was 3rd Best Ragdoll Alter in the World (and 2nd Best Ragdoll Alter in the Southern Region). We consistently produce top quality Ragdolls! Many of the Ragdoll babies that I have available for loving pet homes are show quality, because I just can't keep them all to show. I take enormous pride in each and every one of my babies, and am so delighted with the wonderful homes that their loving owners have provided for my babies since I began breeding/showing in 1999. Many of these new parents have come back again (and in some cases again) for their second and third Bordeaux baby! Thank you for your confidence in me and my precious babies and providing them with such wonderful homes. From day one, my Ragdolls are cuddled, kissed and loved. We (my Ragdolls and I) exhibit exclusively in the Cat Fanciers Association (CFA), the world's oldest and most prestigous cat association. To attain a Grand Champion in CFA is difficult and a most coveted title. I am a CFA Cattery of Excellence (though I hate the word cattery because my babies are raised in my home underfoot, in my bed and are my extended family), and am licensed by Pinellas County, Florida. I am also registered with TICA, and am a member of Ragdoll Fanciers Club International (RFCI), Ragdoll International (RI), Ragdoll Fanciers Worldwide (RFW) and Ragdolls of America Group (RAG; of which I am the Secretary/Membership Officer) and a member of the CFA Ragdoll Breed Council. I am dedicated to producing top quality Ragdolls with wonderful laid-back temperament!
Not to be forgotten is Michelle Clarke (my babysitter when I am traveling to cat shows; I couldn't do this without her loving care of my babies and Brittany, her daughter too)!
WE ARE PROUD TO SAY WE ARE THE HOME OF:
2011: CFA's 23rd Best Premier in Great Lakes Region, 2nd Best Ragdoll Kitten and 3rd Best Ragdoll Alter in World (Enzo)
2011: CFA's 6th Best Ragdoll Champion in World, 40th Best Champion in Great Lakes Region (Jackie)
2011: CFA's 9th Best Ragdoll in World & 2nd Best Ragdoll Champion in Southern Region ("Whiskey")
2011: CFA's 30th Best Ragdoll Champion in World (Disco Danny)
2011: CFA's 40th Best Ragdoll Champion and 10th Best Ragdoll Kitten in World (HNS MidnightBlues)
2011: CFA Distinguished Merit (DM) Sire (Risky)
2010: CFA's 6th Best Ragdoll in World (Cookie)
2010: CFA's 10th Best Cat in World (Buttons)
2009: CFA's 2nd Best Ragdoll in World (Bailey)
2009: CFA's 9th Best Cat in North-Atlantic Region (Bailey)
2009: CFA's 40th Best Cat in World (Bailey)
2009: CFA's 8th Best Ragdoll inWorld (Cookie)
2009: CFA's 4th Best Ragdoll in the Southern Region (Cookie)
2009: CFA's 7th Best Ragdoll Kitten in World (Dusty Dan)
2009: CFA's 12th Best Ragdoll Kitten (Dallas Forty)
2009: CFA's 12th Best Ragdoll Grand Premier (Dusty Dan)
2009: CFA's 14th Best Ragdoll Grand Premier (Dallas Forty)
2008: CFA's 3rd Best Ragdoll in World and Best Ragdoll in Southern Region (Bar-B Doll)
2008: CFA's 36th Best Cat in Southern Region (Bar-B Doll; Out of 400 CFA Cats Competing)
2008: CFA's Best Ragdoll Kitten in World (Gingerbread Cookie)
2008: CFA's 2nd & 3rd Best Ragdolls in Southern Region (Magic and Johanna)
2008: CFA's Southern Region 39th Best Kitten (Gingerbread Cookie; out of 300 Kittens Competing)
2008: CFA's 5th Best of Breed Ragdoll in World (Magic)
2007: CFA's 25th Best Cat in Southern Region (Buttons)
2007: CFA's 2nd Best Ragdoll in World & Best Ragdoll in Southern Region (Buttons)
2007: CFA's 3rd Best Ragdoll in World (Karbon)
2007: CFA's 2nd Best Ragdoll in Southern Region (Karbon)
2007: CFA's 4th Best Alter in World (Biscuit)
2007: CFA's Best Ragdoll Alter in Southern Region (Biscuit)
2006: CFA's Best Ragdoll in World (Katy Did)
2006: CFA 15th Best Cat in Southern Region (Katy Did)
Our Record Speaks For Itself; Even my Pet Babies Are Beautiful and We Can't Keep Them All! The 2006-2007 Show Season was dynamite for us, as we produced 10 CFA Grand Champions, a record for any Ragdoll breeder in one show season. The show season ending April 30, 2007 was equally great for us, as Grand Champion Buttons 'N Bows was CFA's 2nd Best of Breed Ragdoll in the World and 25th Best Cat in the Southern Region of CFA. Grand Champion Karbon Kopy was CFA's 3rd Best of Breed Ragdoll in the World. Watch our website as we continue with kittens out of our breeding in the 2011-2012 Show Season!
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BREEDER OF FORTY-FOUR (44) HOME-BRED CFA GRAND CHAMPIONS!!! 
