RagaMuffin Price: What Kittens Cost, and Why Most Breeders Won't Say

The single best RagaMuffin price document is one cattery's own live price board, because it prices by COLOUR, step by step: $1,000 for a plain tuxedo male up to $4,000 for a pure white female, with every tier dated and taxed. Around it, the market's defining feature is silence. Eight named US catteries we checked post no price at all. Every figure below is sourced and dated, one caught fabrication included.

United States: a color ladder and a quiet market

The ladder, read live from Cats by Francy's own kitten board (18/08/2026, each price plus 8.5-9% tax and a $300 non-refundable deposit): tuxedo males $1,000; tuxedo, brown tabby and blue tuxedo tiers $1,500; seal and blue bicolors $2,500; blue solids and a blue-eyed seal point $3,500; pure white females $4,000. Color and eye color track price step by step, which no generic "RagaMuffin cost" article shows.

The nationwide check agrees. Twelve live listings on the GoKitty marketplace ran $850 to $2,500, sitting almost entirely inside the ladder's range (the $3,500-4,000 rare-color top simply wasn't listed that week). A vet-clinic content page's $800-2,500 estimate matches too, but cites no breeder, so we treat it as boilerplate, not data.

And the finding worth a paragraph: eight named US catteries, checked one by one, publish NO price anywhere and direct every inquiry to a phone call or email. This breed's supply runs through small, direct-contact catteries, not storefronts. Expect to ask, and expect a conversation about your home before a number.

United Kingdom: two listings, said plainly

The UK is a single-source market in our research. Exactly one site carried live priced RagaMuffin listings on our check: two kittens, £450 and £995. The same site's generic £600-1,500 breed-cost paragraph is a site-wide template, not a second source. Two independent absences support the thin-market reading: a second marketplace's RagaMuffin search sat empty, and one named UK breeder states on its own page that it has retired. GCCF recognizes the breed (Championship since 17 June 2015), so UK kittens exist. They move by club and breeder contact more than by listing.

Canada: no price exists, and that is the finding

No genuine Canadian RagaMuffin price was found by any route we tried. A breeder directory returned zero results. A marketplace's Canada filter turned out not to filter at all (it re-served the US listings, which we refused to publish as Canadian). And one "Canadian RagaMuffin breeders" site was rejected outright as a repurposed content-farm domain. With Canadian search demand for the breed at the measurement floor, a near-empty market is the expected reality, not a research gap. Canadian buyers work through CCA-AFC and cross-border catteries.

Australia: one retailer's range, attributed

Australia is also single-source: one pet-retailer blog states A$2,000 to A$4,000 for a purebred kitten, attributed to an unnamed Gold Coast breeder we could not trace. So it is that retailer's claim, never a verified market range. Worth more than the number is the trap we caught beside it. An AI search summary claimed the same page said "A$800 to A$1,500". It does not, and the page's own text says $2,000-4,000. A price a search engine summarises for you is not a price until the page itself shows it.

The buyer's checklist, from the registries themselves

CFA's own scam checklist and TICA's buyer's guide overlap surprisingly little, so we merged them. Visit or video-call the cattery and see the kitten with its mother. Expect a written contract, health record and registration paperwork. Treat a breeder with constant availability of many colors as a red flag. Never pay in full by irreversible transfer before any contact.

And the age line both registries agree on: everywhere we found a legal sale floor, it sits at 6 to 8 weeks, while every cat association we reached recommends 12 to 16 weeks and treats an earlier release as a warning sign, not a legal nicety. Scotland adds a genuine extra: breeding itself needs a licence there from three litters a year.