About Elm City Maine Coon Cats
Experienced Breeder
Tina bred pedigreed Maine Coon kittens for 18 years under the cattery name, Fog City. Tina is now living in New Haven, Connecticut and breeding under the cattery name, Elm City. Elm City cattery is registered with both TICA and CFA. All cats and litters are registered with TICA (The International Cat Association). Tina works with other experienced and exceptional U.S. breeders. Although Tina no longer shows her cats, there are many famous award winning cats in our bloodlines. This means that ancestors have been recognized as good examples of the breed.
The lovely girl here is Fog City Mountain Laurel. She still lives with us and she is a healthy spayed 13 year old.
She is in most of our pedigrees.
Elm City is a small hobby cattery. We only produce about 3 litters each year.
Happy, Healthy Bloodlines
Our breeding cats have been screened for genetic problems, using Optimal Selection Wisdom Panel DNA testing. All our breeding cats are CLEAR (N/N) of all 8 breed specific genetic issues, most notably HCM, SMA, PKD and PKDef.
Our cats are also screened via cardiac ultrasound for heart disease.
We also look at our pedigrees very closely. We want to have well tested blood lines. All the parents of our breeding adults have healthy hearts at the time of their last echocardiograms.
A word about HCM ( hypertrophic cardiomyopathy): At this time scientists have identified one gene responsible for the condition but it is very likely there is at least 1 more gene involved. The DNA test is an extremely valuable tool but it does not tell us the entire story. It is still important to have breeding cats screened for heart disease via cardiac ultrasound.
If a cattery ONLY uses the DNA test and says their cattery is HCM free, they are misleading you.
HCM is never 100% preventable, but we do our best.
Laurel and her son Scout
Laurel is 13 and her son is 12. They both live here with us.. I love their large green eyes. I still get kittens with green eyes on occasion.