About the professional
cattery Ekellin*Fi
to help you choose a kitten in our cattery
Ekellin*Fi is a single-breed, small Maine Coon cattery, registered under the WCF system and a member of the Finnish club Fennica Catus ry in Turku.
Our main cattery is located in the beautiful Helsinki, and I am proud to collaborate with several co-owning families residing in different parts of Finland, including Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo, Lappeenranta, Forssa, and Hämeenlinna. Our partner network extends across the country, ensuring our cats and future owners receive the highest level of quality and care.
In my family, we have five cats and one male; the other cats and males live with the co-owners of the cattery, who share my love and assist in working with this wonderful breed of the cat world.
All Maine Coons from the cattery live in home conditions in constant contact with humans, children, and other animals, and are on a mixed diet, meaning water and dry food are always available, along with fresh meat mixes from chicken fillets, necks, stomachs, and hearts, pork heart twice a day, morning and evening.
Kittens from Ekellin*FI cattery are mainly sold as pets and only occasionally for breeding in serious, small nurseries.
Sales are carried out only on a contract basis!
You can see a sample contract here
According to Finnish law, a kitten leaves the parental home at the age of 14 weeks. At this point, the kitten will have been examined by a certified veterinarian, microchipped, and vaccinated once against major feline infections. Upon request, the kitten can be vaccinated against rabies and receive an EU passport.
Along with the contract, the buyer of a kitten receives a set of recommendations for the care, raising, and maintenance of the animal. Recommendations can be found here
Pedigrees for kittens purchased as pets are sent only in exchange for medical reports on castration or sterilization of the animal and with the mark "Not for breeding."
The price for kittens is strictly individual, depends on the purpose of purchase, and takes into account the type, color, and gender of the kitten. Our cattery also sometimes offers animals.
Dear buyer!
The breeders wrote this letter especially for you in order to facilitate the process of our communication and to find their graduate a home where people are ready to perceive a cat as an individual, a living creature with its own needs and characteristics that need to be known and taken into account.
Many people want to take the kitten away from its mother early in order to have time to enjoy the beauty of infancy. This is extremely dangerous, and talk about how this has always been done in the past is inappropriate. “Before”, people went to the toilet in the bushes and wiped their butts with a popsicle, crumpled newspaper, or even just a stone. “Before” there were no hospitals and doctors, and people died from infections that we hardly notice now. “Before” women gave birth in the field. Agree, we don’t want to live like “before”? Previously, kittens were picked up on the street, and getting into a warm home with guaranteed food was salvation, or at least a chance for life. When choosing a purebred pet, you come to the nursery to a professional breeder who knows all the intricacies of the physiology of his pets and can create optimal conditions for their life and development.
A competent breeder does not give away babies in infancy for several reasons:
1. The function of the gastrointestinal tract, immunity and health of the kitten as a whole throughout its subsequent life depend on the correct introduction of complementary foods and nutrition in the first months of life.
2. Cats under one year of age are extremely susceptible to viral infections, so they should move to a new home only after completing the course of vaccination.
3. At the age of 2-4 months, the active development of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems and the baby’s socialization occur. In games with littermates and mother, the kitten learns to balance its strength. Kittens that have passed this stage of development in the nursery will never bite or scratch a person during play, unlike pets who were taken from their mother in the second month of life.
These are only the most important points; there is also a banal ban on the part of feline systems for moving kittens to new homes under the age of 12 weeks.
If you want to live a long, happy life together with your pet, if you are not indifferent to his fate and health, you will hear us and make decisions based on the vital needs of the cat or cat you have chosen, and not your own selfish interests. Moreover, cats, unlike dogs, can easily adapt to a new home at any age if they are loved and their needs are met.
If you want, like before, you can save a baby from the street, giving him a chance to live.
If you know how to hear only yourself and think only about yourself, we can advise you to buy a plush toy, but you are unlikely to hear, let’s just not take up each other’s time.
All the best!
