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“Sparrow's Nightmare” is a small hobby cattery with two breeding Queens, one breeding male, a few youngsters and some spayed cats.

Our cats - females and males - are totally integrated into our domestic life; they live with me, my husband, our two foster children and our dog as family members in a large and cosy house in the district of Hameln/Pyrmont near Hannover in Germany.
Fair-to-breed living conditions is the top priority for all our animals. Our animals can use all rooms in our house - except the children´s bedrooms and our bathroom. We don't hold them separate, in cat-rooms or in separate rooms or cages.

All regular vaccinations for our cats and kittens are administered several times a year exclusively in our home allowing our veterinarian, the animal clinic Eimbeckhausen, full access into the habitat and surroundings as well as offering an honest insight of the living and health conditions of our cattery.  The advantage of such home visits is a relaxed initial vet introduction in a stress free environment  which usually carries over  to any future vet visits.

We are looking to place preferably our babies in pet-loving homes. They will go (pets -> being early spayed/early neutered!) at the age of 14-16 weeks, chipped, with current certificate of health, tested (labor) FeLV/FIV, full vaccinated and come with copies of the HCM, PKD, HD test results of their parents to you.

Our breeding goal: sturdy, long-lived and affectionate Maine Coon cats. We love the moderate  type, without any extreme features - from the beginnings of the Maine Coon breed: "Historic Maine Coons before 1980". To us breeding means: preserving the original features of this naturally developed cat breed instead of selecting to cater for constantly changing breeding trends. Therefore we enrich the gene pool with our kittens by carefully selecting the parents and working partly with very old lines / outcross and foundation lines. Our cats and their parents are tested / will be tested: HD, PKD, PL, FIV, FeLV and regular HCM (ultrasound/color doppler and DNA-test variant 1). Veterinarians for HCM and PKD are Dr. Ralf Tobias and Dr. Dirk Lüerssen (certificated veterinarians for HCM and PKD).

******* Update 2014 *******

In the fall of 2012, our foster son at the age of 21 spread his wings and moved into an assisted living community. He was the last of our foster children to leave home, which for us created the chance to realize a long-cherished dream - in April 2014 we and our twelve cats moved to the U.S. and call the state of Maine home.



Easter 2013 - US*Four Paws Emylee keeps a close watch to our immigration documents / "greencards"



2014 - our new home in Maine - click photo for more pictures


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