Welcome to Pitho Maine Coons

Pitho Maine Coons is a small, loving and serious cattery - we are located in Northern part of Jutland. We have had Maine Coons since 1998 and have been showing our cats since 2002 - our first litter arrived february 2005. Up until May 2009 we were members of JYRAK and therefore breeders under FIFe, but for quite some time we had been thinking about switching, which is why we chose to become members of TICA and Viking Cats instead.  Our cattery name Pitho is registred in both FIFe and TICA.

Our main goal is to breed loving, healthy and well typed Maine Coons. We have our breeding cats screened for HCM on a regular basis, meaning every second year or more often - we also DNA test all our breeding cats - and kittens if required - for the MYBPC3 mutation. We test the cats that are negative for the mutation twice to check if they actually are negative - this way we don't feel the need to test kittens from a mating between two negative cats. We don't test the heterozygote positive ones twice, because their offspring will be tested anyway and these positive cats are only bred to negative cats. Our kittens are all registred in TICA and sold with a sales contract - and of course only for good loving homes, approved by us!! Our kittens are among us and have, more or less, access to the whole house - when they are old enough, of course. They grow up together with the rest of our cats and our two dogs - and of course us :-) The cats also have access to the whole house and our 1100 squaremeters fenced-in garden.

Kittens from us are all chipmarked and vaccinated against Feline Panleukopenia and Cat flu - and kittens sold as pets are also spayed or neutered before they leave our home. This often brings out lots of opinions, both pros and cons, but our experience is that the kittens get well much easier than an older cat does. And one doesn't need to worry about a young female all of a sudden gets pregnant or that the males start spraying. So this is something we have decided and it's not up for discussion.

We show our cats, both in Denmark, but also abroad. Mostly on TICA shows, but sometimes we are at FIFe shows as well. We show for the fun of it and to meet others cat fanciers, but also to keep up with the development of the breed and to make sure that our cats and  kittens are well typed. This makes us aware of our cats' strengths and weaknesses. This way we also feel that we can plan our matings to acchieve the type we prefer. Normally we will only make a combination once, but several things can be reason that we do repeat a certain combination.

If you have any questions, want to kno more about our cats or just want to chat about the cats, do feel free to contact us. We are always up for a cat-chat :-)