Broadway Ragdolls Cattery LLC

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Sep 11, 2025

Warning to Potential Buyers and Breeders: My Experience with Broadway Ragdolls / Claire Michaels In 2023, I became involved with Claire Michaels of Broadway Ragdolls after responding to a listing she posted on a business-for-sale platform. The experience that followed has resulted in significant financial loss and unresolved obligations that remain outstanding as of 2025. As part of the initial sale, Claire was to provide six cats (a mix of kings and queens) and a selection of “nursery materials.” While some items were usable, a portion of the materials were used and not in suitable condition, and I ultimately removed or replaced them for health and safety reasons. Of the six cats she sold me: * One queen, specified in the contract and paid for in full, was never provided to me. * One king was of Broadway Ragdoll lines and has a clean pedigree, but is a sibling to all of the queens he was intended to be bred with. He has remained in my program and is paired only with unrelated queens. * One queen came through another cattery with Broadway Ragdoll lines, has a clean pedigree, and is still part of my program. * One male (Jones) was deemed unfit for breeding by a state-licensed veterinarian due to both health and temperament concerns and was returned to Claire. * One queen (Lillia) was returned due to severe inbreeding and infertility. * One queen (Annie) was retired due to her Type B blood type and the lack of a compatible king. Breeding her to a Type A male resulted in the loss of two litters. I attempted to return and replace Annie, but Claire refused. Claire grossly inflated the claimed value of the cats she provided relative to their actual genetic quality and breeding potential. In a separate transaction in 2024, I sold Claire a breeding cat under a signed contract. She paid a non-refundable deposit, took possession of the kitten, and failed to pay the remaining balance. She has refused to return the cat and has since attempted to retroactively change the terms of that agreement. Claire does not provide customers with formal pedigrees or complete genetic health documentation. I know this firsthand—not only from my experience as a buyer, but also because I helped Claire prepare her “going home” materials. Her standard practice is to provide buyers only with the TICA Certificate of Registration for the sire and dam, which does not include any generational lineage or extended pedigree. When I acquired cats from Claire, I received no 3- or 5-generation pedigrees and had to order them myself in order to assess the bloodlines. Full-panel genetic and health testing was also not provided—only basic UC Davis color testing for some of the cats. I had to personally cover the cost of trait and disease testing after taking the cats home. This lack of documentation makes it difficult to responsibly manage genetic diversity, avoid inbreeding, and verify health risks. It also poses a major issue for breeders who rely on transparency and recorded ancestry in order to maintain ethical breeding programs. To date, Claire Michaels and Broadway Ragdolls owe me over $26,000 in unpaid invoices, stud fees, and costs related to returned and misrepresented cats. Despite multiple attempts to resolve this—including formal demand letters from my attorney—these obligations remain unmet. This amount does not reflect the additional financial harm caused by the lack of a viable king after returning Jones. For nearly a year, I was unable to produce any litters because there were no adult kings present in the cattery, which also suppressed the reproductive cycles of my queens. The resulting loss of income and breeding momentum was substantial and directly attributable to Claire’s misrepresentation of the breeding viability of the male she sold me. During this period, Claire and I agreed that I would temporarily borrow one of her kings. As part of the process, my veterinarian required proof of the king’s vaccination status. When we received the documentation, my vet’s office contacted the veterinary practice listed to verify the information—only to discover that no veterinarian by that name had ever worked there, and the office had no record of the cat in question. Both my vet’s office and I were subsequently contacted by a New York Police Department detective regarding the matter. This was the second time I had been contacted by an NYPD detective in connection with Broadway Ragdolls. I do not know the outcome of these investigations, but the incident raised serious concerns about the integrity of Claire’s documentation and practices. This account is supported by contracts, emails, veterinary documentation, genetic test results, and receipts. I am sharing this information to protect other breeders and buyers from similar losses. If you are considering doing business with Claire Michaels or Broadway Ragdolls, I strongly advise you to proceed with caution, get everything in writing, and independently verify all pedigrees, health clearances, and genetic documentation before committing to any purchase or collaboration.