About the professional
cattery Ekellin*Fi
to help you choose a kitten in our cattery
Ekellin*Fi is a small, single-breed Maine Coon cattery registered under the WCF system. Previously, the cattery was a member of the Finnish club Fennica Catus ry in Turku, which operated under the Estonian club Cato. Since August 1, 2025, our cattery has officially become a member of the main Cato club in Estonia. This step allows us to expand our breeding program, work with new colors, and increase the genetic diversity of our cattery, while strengthening the health and temperament of future generations.
Our main cattery is located in beautiful Helsinki, and I am proud to cooperate with several co-owning families living in different parts of Finland, including Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo, Lappeenranta, Forssa, and Hämeenlinna. This partnership network spreads across the country, ensuring the highest level of quality and care for our cats and their future owners.
In my family, only cats live permanently, with a continuous renewal of generations: some are retired from breeding, others remain, and young cats are added to the breeding program. Male cats live as beloved pets with the co-owners of the cattery, who share my love for the breed and support our work with these amazing Maine Coons. At the same time, they participate in the breeding program, maintaining generational continuity and enhancing the best qualities of the breed.
All Maine Coons of the cattery live in a home environment, in constant contact with people, children, and other animals. They are fed a mixed diet: water and dry food are always available, while fresh meat mixes—consisting of chicken fillet, necks, gizzards, and hearts, as well as pork heart—are served twice a day, morning and evening.
Kittens from Ekellin*Fi are sold primarily as beloved family pets and only occasionally for breeding, and then only to serious, small catteries.
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!
