About Me

Photo by Helmi Flick

I have been exhibiting pedigreed cats for 20 years, and have owned and bred several Cats of the Year, mainly Burmese and also an Oriental which was Cat of the Year twice.

While my main aim is to breed outstanding show quality kittens, I also have beautiful pet kittens available.  My breeding cats are all tested for HCM and HD and my cattery is Feline Leukemia and FIV negative.

In 2002 two of my imported Maine Coons were awarded Cat of the Year awards in the NSW Cat Fanciers Association, Best Male Cat was GDGC & CCCA Ch Kititas Spellbinder (Imp UK), and Best Female Cat was GDGC & CCCA Sapphire TGC N*Arctic Coon's Kon Tiki (Imp Nwy).  

Also in 2002 my first Kitten of the Year Award with a home bred kitten, Coolcoons Take A Chance was Female Kitten of the Year.  Take A Chance is by my other import from Norway, N*Arctic Coons Little Polarbear and out of my other import from the UK, Kititas Dreamweaver.  I want to thank both Benthe Prytz from Norway and Catherine Letts from the UK for their kindness and generosity to a relatively new breeder of Maine Coons and for sending me such wonderful cats.
In 2003 I also had some wonderful show results with several cats and kittens placed in the Cat of the Year pointscores.  Those results are shown in more detail, together with the backgrounds of the cats, on the show results page.

In 2004 again, I had a terrific year of showing and those results are detailed also on the show results page.

In 2005 I had a break from exhibiting but at the first show of 2006 won Best Male Kitten in one ring and Best Female Kitten in one ring with the two exhibits that I took to the show. 

As there were so few Maine Coons in Australia when I tried to purchase my first breeding Maine Coons, I decided to import my first two cats.   There were two available at the time in New Zealand so they became my first Maine Coons arriving in Australia in February, 1999.

The next addition to the Maine Coon family came from Cathy Walker's Gradach Cattery later in the year and I thank Cathy sincerely for allowing Squeak to come and live with me.  I am also very grateful to Cathy for her patience and generosity with her time in answering questions regarding breeders in other countries where I may be able to acquire more Coons for Australia.

I was also lucky enough to purchase two  breeding girls from Heather Rome in Western Australia, Majesticoon Imogen (brown mackerel tabby) and Majesticoon Kismet (red mackerel tabby).

Kititas Spellbinder (silver classic tabby and white) and Kititas Dreamweaver (blue silver classic tabby) arrived in December 1999 from Catherine Letts in the UK.  They were followed in mid 2000 by Kititas Dare To Dream (brown classic tabby and white) and Kititas True Illusion (tortie tabby).

In March 2001 N*Arctic Coons Little Polar Bear and N*Arctic Coons Kon Tiki arrived from Arve & Benthe Prytz from Norway.

I have imported two girls from Annette Norris in New Zealand, Dreamstalker Angel Mine a brown classic tabby with white and Maineflame Island Dream, a tortie mackerel tabby.  In 2003 N*Arctic Coons Zamzon and N*Arctic Coons Midnight Sun arrived to live with me also.