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Blossom Ragdolls

Website & breeder-management platform · Jackson Hole, WY

Not a brochure site — a quiet command center for a 20-year cattery. We moved Blossom Ragdolls off a generic site builder onto a custom platform that runs the breeding program: pedigrees, litters, health records, and live kitten listings, all editable by the owner without touching code.

20 yrs

Of pointed-Ragdoll bloodline — now on a platform built to match (est. 2005)

0

Downtime moving off Squarespace, with HTTPS from day one

400+

Automated tests keeping the platform stable

Owner-run

Litters, kittens, and listings — managed with no developer in the loop

The challenge

A template site can't run a breeding program.

Blossom Ragdolls has spent two decades building one of the most respected blue-eyed pointed Ragdoll bloodlines in the country. But their online presence was a generic, off-the-shelf site builder — fine for a few photos and a phone number, useless for the thing a serious cattery actually does all day: run a living breeding program.

  • Track a breeding program. Kings & Queens, retired breeders, litters, parentage and pedigree links, genetic tests, shot records, and awards — none of it had a home.
  • Present kittens the way buyers shop. Availability changes constantly (available → reserved → placed), and each kitten needs its own profile, photos, pricing, and a status that updates the moment things change.
  • Be edited by the owner. Every update meant fighting a clunky editor or waiting on someone else — she needed to add a litter, list a kitten, or mark one reserved herself, in minutes.
  • Look like a 20-year legacy. A premium bloodline deserves an editorial, gallery-grade presentation, not a stock theme with photos dropped in.
  • Replace the old site cleanly. It was live on Squarespace, so the new platform had to take over with no downtime, no broken links, and no lost SEO.

What we built

A luxury site, with a real system underneath.

A real breeding-program system, not a photo gallery

Behind the public site is a full admin platform to manage cats — Kings & Queens, retired breeders, and kittens — alongside litters with parentage links, awards, genetics, and shot records, with pricing, availability, and visibility all controlled per cat.

Kitten listings that mirror how people buy

Public pages for available kittens and adults, a Kings & Queens showcase of the active breeding program, and a Blossom Families page celebrating placed and kept cats — each cat flows automatically into the right section based on its status. A bonded-pair feature even lets two cats share one profile.

Owner-managed, in minutes

Role-based admin access (read / write / delete) lets the owner add a litter, publish a kitten, schedule a reveal for later, or mark one reserved — instantly, with no developer in the loop.

An editorial, breed-true brand

The client site is styled to the cattery's own palette — warm cream, champagne-gold accents, and deep-brown ink, with the Ragdoll's signature blue as the accent — over a full-bleed hero, generous whitespace, and gallery-grade photography.

Built to be found

A complete SEO layer — clean titles and descriptions, Open Graph cards, a self-updating sitemap, and LocalBusiness structured data — so the cattery ranks and shares well.

A clean migration & launch

We stood the site up, migrated the content, and handled the full cutover off Squarespace — DNS, HTTPS certificate, and a zero-downtime production deploy.

The platform

Everything a cattery does, in one place.

Breeding-program CRM

Kings & Queens, litters, parentage, awards, genetics & health records.

Smart kitten listings

Statuses — available / reserved / placed / keeping — that auto-route each cat to the right page.

Owner self-service admin

Role-based permissions, scheduled publishing, and per-cat visibility controls.

Bonded-pair pages

Two cats, one shared profile.

One-click data portability

Export/import that moves records and photos between environments.

SEO built in

Sitemap, structured data, and social cards out of the box.

Secure & maintained

HTTPS, automated CI/CD deploys, and 400+ automated tests.

Built with

  • React Router 7
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Node.js / Express
  • SQLite
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Nginx
  • Vite

The outcome

A 20-year legacy, finally matched online.

  • Replaced a generic site builder with a purpose-built cattery platform the owner runs herself.
  • Migrated off Squarespace with zero downtime and HTTPS from day one.
  • A living breeding program — Kings & Queens, litters, and kitten listings — now managed in one place, in minutes.
  • An editorial presentation that matches a 20-year bloodline, on a foundation built to scale as the cattery grows.
Beautiful site, and they're still working with us to climb the SEO rankings.
Dana PendergraphBlossom Ragdolls

Run a real operation — not just a website

Need something like this for your business?

Blossom Ragdolls got a beautiful site and the system that runs the business behind it — built on infrastructure that's already proven and designed to scale. If you've got an operation a template can't handle, let's talk.

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