Babyblueeyes Ragdolls review: Cat

I also had the great misfortune to get taken in by this deeply cruel and unethical person. In May of 2022 I drove to Webster, Ma. To pick up an adult female Ragdoll from Jeanine.

I sent a deposit months earlier and had been waiting on a health certificate so I could engage a commercial shipper. 3 months went by with no sign of the vet check happening. She finally said it would be done by May 5th, but by this point my daughter and I decided to do the 20 hour round trip drive by ourselves.

We got to Webster the day before and contacted Jeanine to set a time to pick up our cat. At this point she said she lives “2 hours away”. This seemed very strange- how can you take care of your animals properly if you live so far away? We set the time for 10 am the next day.

On the morning of the pickup she texted us that we wouldn’t be able to go into the apartment where the cats were. Again, giant red flag.

We arrived into the parking lot and she came out with a cat in her arms.

It looked nothing like the pictures she had sent me of a robust, beautiful, healthy Ragdoll.

Instead the cat was extremely thin, dirty, and had multiple skin lesions.

The cat looked sick and lethargic.

My daughter had had enough of the run arounds and took the cat and put her in our carrier.

Then Jeanine tried to sell us another cat. This poor thing was in even worse shape than the first, she had weeping skin lesions and she was clearly nursing a litter of kittens. I asked Jeanine how she could sell a nursing mother, and she brushed it aside and tried to claim that the kittens were weaned.

We did not buy the second cat because we knew the one we had purchased was in terrible shape, and who would take a mom away from her babies?

We drove 700 miles back to Virginia and booked a vet appointment for the next day.

The vet at Compassion Animal Care in Bealeton was clearly shocked when she examined our $2,500 purchase.

Our kitty that we named Chloe’ was infested with fleas and tapeworms, was severely underweight, was missing 6 teeth (a two year old cat),

and had severe diarrhea.

We had treatment started and paid the $770 vet bill.

Oh, also, Jeanine could not provide proof of any vaccinations but jotted off a handwritten record including a rabies vaccination that she claimed she “gave herself “.

You cannot give your own rabies vaccines - they have to be given by a licensed veterinarian.

We brought Chloe home and we are two weeks in on her long slow road to recovery. She was terrified of people and is very slowly coming around.

My vet has advised keeping her isolated away from my cats for 3 months.

You should run - not walk away from Jeanine and her cattery. The cat I bought and the cat I saw were clearly neglected and abused. No reputable breeder would keep cats in these conditions and then sell them to the public.

Below are 3 pictures that I was sent of what my cat looked like.

The fourth is a picture of the cat I got.