PrairieBaby Maine Coon Cats
Our Foundation Projects
Note: The year of 2006 was most likely our last year of early foundation breeding. We will continue with our outcross breeding program on a smaller scale in 2007.
UPDATE on our foundation breeding on August 24, 2007
"Joshua"
100 % Canadian Foundation
PrairieBaby Cattery has been developing several new Maine Coon blood lines. Some of them are Polydactyl.
About our Polydactyl line:
Even though about 40 % of the original Maine Coon breed was supposively polydactyl, some associations have closed the doors on most of these precious lines. In the year 1999 there was only one acitve Polydactyl line left in our breed. A couple have been added by foundation breeders since then. Polydactylism is naturally a wonderful trait of our breed. It is NOT a harmful mutation or deformity.
We decided in 2000 to start a new Polydactyl line here in Canada. We were very enthusiastic about this new creation at the time and proudly called it "The Masterweaver Line". ...............Over the years we have poured a lot of passion into these cats - in order to improve their weaknesses and enhance their natural strenghts. Of course the beauty is in the eyes of the beholder but we think that the project is slowly turning into fine piece of art.
The strengths of our Poly line is extreme affection, heavy bonedness, a moderate type, super coat and wonderful weight. Since good quality Polydactyl Maine Coons are very rare we had basically kept everything with Poly feet for our own breeding program in the past.
We have only recently started to release the first Poly kittens into the gene pool. Please e-mail us for more information on Polydactylism in Maine Coons.
revised on May 04, 2003!
New pictures as of February 2004!
This is a private list for people working with foundation and part foundation. We are presently only accepting members who are actively working with newer foundation lines and who test for HCM and HD.
(This is a public list where people can post and view pictures of foundation/part foundation cats)
