Ragdoll Kittens for Sale Brisbane: Ragdoll Cats for Sale in Queensland

Sydney to Brisbane is one of the shortest interstate legs we book, about an hour and a half in the air. We drive your kitten to the transport company, they handle the airline booking and paperwork, and the kitten flies in an airline-approved carrier with a blanket that smells of their mother and littermates. You pick them up from the transporter at Brisbane Airport.

One thing catches Queensland families out every summer. Queensland does not run daylight saving, so from October to April the departure time we send you from NSW is an hour ahead of your clock. Read your arrival time in Brisbane time, not ours, and you won't be sitting in the car park an hour early.

Most Brisbane buyers choose the flight. Driving 1,000 km down the New England Highway with a twelve-week-old kitten is a long haul for a small cat, and the flight is over before a road trip would have reached the border. The full process, including what to bring to the airport, is on our Ragdoll kitten delivery page.

Gold Coast and Tweed families

Kittens fly into Brisbane Airport rather than Coolangatta, because the transporter works through the capital-city airport. From the northern Gold Coast that is usually under an hour up the M1. Bring the carrier seatbelted in the back, not on someone's lap.

Sunshine Coast and Moreton Bay

Families from Caloundra, Maroochydore or Redcliffe also collect at Brisbane Airport. The airport sits on the northern side of the city, which makes the trip home shorter than most people expect.

Ipswich, Logan and Toowoomba

Ipswich and Logan are an easy run to the airport. Toowoomba families have the longest drive of anyone we send to Brisbane, so I suggest packing a small towel and a spare puppy pad in case of a travel accident on the range.

Humidity, the coat and air-conditioning

A Ragdoll's coat is silky with a light undercoat, which is good news for Queensland. The catch is humidity. Damp, warm air makes the fine hair behind the ears, in the armpits and along the britches clump faster than it does in Bowral, so a Brisbane Ragdoll does better with a comb every two or three days from November to March rather than once a week. A wide-toothed metal comb does more than any brush.

My opinion, and I hold it firmly: please don't shave a Ragdoll for a Brisbane summer. The coat helps insulate them from heat as well as cold, a shaved Ragdoll can sunburn on pale skin, and the regrowth often comes back patchy. Keep one room at a comfortable temperature with the air-conditioner on the hottest afternoons and leave the coat alone.

Ragdolls are floor cats rather than climbers, and on a sticky day you will find them stretched out on tiles or in the bath. Leave a few water bowls around the house, away from the food, and consider a pet water fountain.

Paralysis ticks

The paralysis tick lives along the eastern coast of Australia, and south-east Queensland is squarely in its range. Spring and early summer are the worst months, and suburbs that back onto bushland are prime tick country. An indoor Ragdoll is far less likely to meet one, but ticks can come in on clothes or other pets. Talk to your vet about a preventative registered for cats, and never use a dog product on a cat.

Storm season

Brisbane's afternoon storms are louder than anything our kittens hear in the Highlands. Our kittens grow up with the vacuum and the washing machine, so most cope well, but give a new kitten a covered bed or a cardboard box in a quiet room during their first storms.

Indoors, or a catio

Between Brisbane City Council's rule against cats wandering, the wildlife in leafy suburbs and the traffic, an indoor life suits a Ragdoll well. They are gentle and slow to react, which makes them poor at dealing with a busy road or a loose dog. A screened patio, a fully enclosed catio or a fenced courtyard with cat-proof netting gives them fresh air without the risk. You can read more about the temperament that makes them such good indoor cats in our guide to the Ragdoll breed.