Krammekatten is a small, family-owned breeder of Maine Coon cats. We have always had animals around us, including a Bernese mountain dog and various domestic cats. More recently, however, only cats. 

We had long wished for a Maine Coon, and after our 19-year-old house cat, Sofus, passed away, we decided our next cat would be from this breed. We bought our first pet, Bine, from Dorthe at Dkkrammedyret.dk in 2006, and after another visit to Dorthe, we fell for Athena and Aronja. Aronja was for sale as a pet, but Athena was possibly pregnant and not for sale. Eventually, however, we brought both cats home. We agreed that we would take care of Athena and kittens and then have one of the kittens from the litter. A big thank you to Dorthe for showing us the confidence. It was a great and wonderful experience to have kittens in the house, and we had no doubt that we would breed this wonderful breed. 

Our choice of kitten was a red boy, Dusty Dundee. The agreement was that he would be neutered, but when he developed a good size and a lovely temperament, Dorthe decided she would like to use him as a stud. He should still be with us. 

Dundee was the father of three litters of kittens before we neutered him in September 2008. He had begun spraying (everywhere, even inside the house), which we particularly disliked. And to have our stud confined, no, no.

It is important to us that all our cats can move where they want and where we are. 

Our cats live as family cats and can move freely throughout the house and have free access to a large enclosed garden. We researched breeders' names in the spring of 2008 and bought our first breeding kitten, Krammedyret Oceane. We test for HCM and PKD, which is repeated at regular intervals.

To have a serious breeding program is a big task and we are learning every day.

Our goals are:

Health: we want to contribute to improve the breed by having healthy kittens. As a consequence, all our cats are or will be FIV/FeLV-PKD- HCM (DNA test and echo-screenings) tested.

Temperament: kittens’ socialization is important. Most kittens will go as pets and no one wants a pet that is shy, standoffish, aggressive, or otherwise difficult to live with. To raise a lovely and sweet kitten requires a lot of time. So, to be able to concentrate on each kitten, we have only one litter at a time. And we allow all the kittens and adults to move where they want and where we are. Therefore we only have a few cats with us at any one time.

We only sell breeding kittens to catteries with the same breeding goals and who have a test program for genetic diseases.