Upper Valley Cattery, Walpole, NH, and Athens, VT,W2NH/K2KDA

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	UpperValley Cattery Cat Fanciers Association Registration (CFA) number 208235 The International Cat Association Registration (TICA) number 14508
Silverfoot P	Maine Coons -- Siberians -- Tennessee Rex	Olwyn P

The fine print . . .
Our cattery is dedicated to promoting cats as truly affectionate companions and members of the family and, in particular, the breeding of Siberians and Polydactyl Maine Coons. We are purebred Maine Coon and Polydactyl purebred Maine Coon breeders and have added the Siberian breed and have had two litters with Olivera. Both these breeds are of the Northern Forest type and are along with their cousins, the Norwegian Forest Cat, designed for the harsh conditions of the northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere. Their coats are long and shaggy and they have large bones, presenting a rugged but very gentile animal that loves people and attention without being demanding. Their good nature and relationship with their human benefactors make them ideal pets.

We are now assisting Mr Franklin Wittenburg with developing a new Rex breed that has very special glitter in a curly coat. More soon!

Polydactyls are unique in that they have more than the 'standard' number of toes or claws on at least one paw. Ernest Hemingway was noted for his Polydactyls at his home in Florida and sea captains have considered them good luck on the high seas. This genetic addition of extra toes does not interfere with the natural activities of the animal. Here in the back woods of the Northeastern United States the larger size feet make for easier travel when searching for prey in deep snow.

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Information

Our Queens and Sires

We have two Siberian older kittens available from Olivera's second litter. They are available now

Siberian Cats

A fairly new breed in the United States. We are now breeding these cats.
They are noted for producing far fewer reactions in people with allergies to cats.

Windrifter Olivera of UpperValley
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Our Siberian Queen
click her photograph for her personal page

Edelweiss Cyclamen of Branch River
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Our Siberian Sire
Click his photograph for
his personal page

Their kittens may be seen on the Siberian kittens pages.
There are two kittens still available
from her May 2007 litter

Click here for her first kittens

Click here for her May, 2007 kittens

Windrifter Olivera of UpperValley

Olivera delivered her second litter of five kittens.
appropriately on Mothers Day

To visit her new kittens please click here

Edelweiss Cyclamen of Branchriver

Our Retired Founding Queen

Silvertoes

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She is a purebred Maine Coon silver Mackerel Tabby from Furkats Cattery in Kentucky. She is 4 years old and also a mitten-pawed Polydactyl.
Click her photograph to the right for more information about our Queen.

Silvertoes has been retired and if we can find just the right home for her we would like to place her now. Our cattery may have to go on sabattical until 2009 later this year due to my physical problems.

Silvertoes' kitten pages and photographs

Links to our Maine Coon kitten pages

March 2005 Silvertoes' kittens

July 2005 Silvertoes' kittens

April 2006 Silvertoes' kittens

June 2006 Olwyn P's kittens

October 2006 Silvertoes' kittens

Silverfoot P
One of Silvertoes' first kittens

Silverfoot P now lives in Holland ©
He is our "poster" boy and is featured on my card
and on the MCPI web site

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Our Maine Coon Breeders
Click their names to visit their web pages

Blueblaze Svart Rök of UpperValley

Blueblaze Vialle of UpperValley

Our new and future MC breeder Queens are from Blueblaze
see below

Furkats Silvertoes, Our first Maine Coon Queen

Watching over her second litter

And as a six month old kitten

(click her photograph)

This is our retired Poly
Maine Coon Queen, Olwyn P.
She has moved to her retirement home and says she is enjoying all the attention.

Olwyn P is one of Silvertoes' March, 2005 kittens. She was raised here at our cattery under foot and has the sweetest disposition of any of that litter. As she attained maturity we entered her in seven TICA shows starting with the 2005 annual at Syracuse where she won her first rosette in New Traits, competing against other cats from her mom's breeder. She went on to receive more than 70 rosettes in the other shows of the 2005-06 season, her last venture was out to Petteycats Cattery for breeding. She delivered six mackerel tabby kittens on June 13. The kittens have their own page (click here). Here is one of her portraits taken late 2005.
Click her photograph to visit her page

Polydactyl (many fingers) cats occur in most cat breeds. Many native American Maine Coon cats originally were Polydactyl. The uninformed cat fancy has attempted to eliminate this anomaly by disqualifying cats with these extra toes and calling it a deformity. What is truly unfortunate is that the Poly gene even when homozygous does not present a health hazard while other accepted breeds such as the Scottish Fold can not be bred except using outcrosses without having serious health problems. We would like to see this natural part of the Maine Coon breed restored and accepted by the fancy. The Poly gene is dominant and we breed to produce heterozygous kittens so we will always have 'standard' pawed kittens in addition to the Polys. All our cats are raised 'under foot' and share nearly all corners of our home.

Our retired Maine Coon sire

Cosmos
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Arrived as a kitten from Furkats Cattery in Kentucky. He is not a Polydactyl and is the father of Silvertoes' many kittens. Click his photograph to the right to find out more about him.

Cosmos has retired and has moved to a new home here in the Upper Valley. He is still a lap full of purrs.

One of Silvertoes' kittens

We have a limited gallery of kitten photos that have now grown up showing them as both kittens and
as adults with some testimonials from
the new owners.
Go to the gallery

Here is a link to a very interesting article about the maine Coon breed. It is worth a click and a few minutes on the history of our "native (to the US) breed", the Maine Coon.
http://www.nidoba.nl/extra/art/1978/1978.html

Furkats Cosmos of UpperValley

Our pedigreed Maine Coon retired stud. He is a Brown Tabby and White.

Our new soon to be queen from Blueblaze

Bluebalze Svart Rök of UpperValley

Please click the photograph to link to her page (the link is down for now)

We will have a real portrait of her very soon

This space is reserved for our new queen in training,
Blueblaze Vialle of UpperValley
She is the granddaughter of our queen Furkats Silvertoes of UpperValley.
She isnow ready for her first breeding.

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Polydactyl Maine Coon cats are original to the breed and are being considered an intergal part of the Maine Coon breed and not associated with other polydactyl cats. The front paws must be of the thumb or mitten type and may have dew claws. 'Hamburger patty' pawed Maine Coon Polydactyls will not be accepted in this proposed breed standard. While there are other Polydactyl cats the Maine Coon Polydactyls may be pedigreed as Maine Coons..

For other Polydactyl cats breed standards and registration please contact the
International Progressive Cat Breeders' Association please click here
(note: we are not a registry)

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The Tennessee Rex

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Bagheera, when
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Bagheera: Peek-a-boo!

Last but not least until we redo this page is a little bit of information about the new to us Tennessee Rex breed. It all started about five years ago when a feral mother cat and her litter of kittens were found on the back porch of a home in Tennessee. Two of the kittens were different. Very different. They had curly hair (called rex) and tiny prisms in the hair shafts that break up the light into what is called "glitter." They sparkled in the sunlight. Mr Wittenburg saved the two kittens and had them evaluated by a famous genetist at TICA.The kittens have grown up and were outcrossed to ordinary cats . The offspring do not show the rex coat but carry the gene that is recessive.

The recessive gene must come from both parents for it to show so we have two very plain looking queens and a sire that are all the outcrosses.One of the queens has now had her second litter of six kittens that are growing like weeds. You can view the litters by clicking the dates below:

June 2007 litter
January 2008 litter

More information will be added as it becomes available.

Page updated March 1, 2008