Just brought my girl home a few days ago! Logging her progression so far:

Day 1: Scared, peed on the car seat on the ride home from the breeder. Tolerated pets but that's about it.

Day 2: Started headbutting for pets, wanted to be near me, laid against me.

Day 3: Started tripping over her (she's underfoot now), started licking/grooming me. She napped on my lap and stayed there napping for over half an hour, admittedly food motivated at first (churu), but she stayed curled up for another 20 minutes after she finished eating. Few hours later she leaned against me again, I put her between my legs, and she took a full hour nap there.

Before I brought her home, the breeder told me she was very sweet, liked to be held, and that any resistance at first would just be her adjusting to someone new and that she'd become a Velcro kitty within a few days once she bonded. She also said she'd be cuddly and would seek out attention on her own once settled in.

Everything the breeder said was phrased in the future tense, so I honestly can't tell if she was describing this cat as is or just wanting to sell her. Obviously raggies are famous for being velcro/floppy lap cats but every cat is an individual and plenty of them don't follow the stereotypes 

Plus, I already love her personality exactly as it is, and she's the cutest most well tempered already regardless of how she ends up being. If she ends up more independent and not big on cuddling, that changes nothing about how I feel about her. If she does turn into a full velcro/lap cat, that's just a really nice bonus on top of a cat I already adore. I'm mostly just curious what more experienced Ragdoll/cat people see in this pattern. I've been on this sub for a while now and it feels like most of the posts I see are people whose cats were basically velcro/cuddly almost immediately, not many "it took weeks/months/years to get there" stories. So I wanna hear about slow burns where the bond builds gradually day by day instead of clicking right away. Or someone to tell me whether I’m reading too much into her behavior and this isn't actually indicative of anything lol

8 month old female Ragdoll, day 1-3 progression. Potential velcro or lap cat behavior? (or neither, and that’s okay!)