My name is Lori and I live on a farm in, well, quite the middle of nowhere. Nothing new to some people, but certainly the norm for people around here... But I was raised a city gal and a city gal I still am! (In my heart)

When I met my husband of now 28 years, the one thing that enticed me about living on a farm was that he promised me I could have all the cats I wanted! Yes! Dream come true! Except he neglected to mention that they all had to live outside. Ok, so now we had a big problem... No malls, no shopping centers whatsoever, no people for miles and miles, and now no kitties in the house?!? Are you kidding me? Fortunately, he loves me very much, so he caved within our first year of marriage and let me convert a barn cat into a house kitty. Not exactly my dream kitty, but Ollie was a fabulous companion for 18 years.

When he passed away, (the cat, not the husband), I did a lot of research and was determined that my next kitten would be a Ragdoll. They enticed me by their floppiness, their long glorious coats of fur, their blue eyes, their loving dispositions... I was smitten! Never mind that my farmer husband thought I was crazy to spend 'that kind of money on a cat' when we could just nab another barn cat... I had my heart set and my savings account started.

The hunt began. I didn't realize they would be so hard to find OR so expensive! When I finally did get my first Ragdoll, he lived up to all my expectations and more. I decided that more people needed to have access to these beautiful cats and not pay so much for them. So I invested in a female Ragdoll and female Persians to provide the darling Ragamuffin breed as well. The rest, as they say, is history!