Struve’s is a small cattery located in Aarhus in Denmark.

We are four people in the family, John, Lone and our two daughters Simone and Johanne. Our interest for these lovely cats started in 1998, when we bought our first Maine Coon cat, Nala.

It appeared much later that she was not a pure bred Maine Coon, so this fact put an end to my dreams of her being the beginning of a little Main Coon Cattery – at least for a while. The experience with Nala has meant a lot to how we breed cats, cause this was not the right way! We take it very serious and invest a lot of time and energy because we wish to contribute to the Maine Coon breed in a good way. At the same time we wish to simply enjoy these lovely cats, and se the beautiful kittens grow up.

In 2004 we decided to start breeding in the name of Struve, which is also Lones middle family name. The whole family is involved in socializing the kittens and caring for the cats.

It is our intention to have just a few selected cats at a time, so that they all have our full attention. A breeder cat, in our home, is always a pet-cat before anything.

Our main focus is health, temper and ‘good size and type’. In particular, we work with health and temper, in that order, as our main priorities. It won’t do you any good to be good-looking if you have a weird personality or are a carrier of inherited diseases...

This also means that we pay a lot of attention to the pedigrees and, in general, try to work with slightly different, often imported lines with the lowest inbreeding percentage and clone value as possible. The lines we work with is therefore both new foundation lines and showlines. We think that a large diversity in the collected gene pool, in general, promotes the health of the Maine Coon cat.

Our focus is: To breed as big and typie cats as possible within the health and temperamental frames described above. Read more about how we are working in the sections ‘Health’ and ‘Maine Coon’.

We like the sweet, tender and a little naughty cat, with the look in his eye, like he is the king of the whole wide world...

With kind regards,

The family Struve and Vohlert Rasmussen

NEWS:

November: We are now certain that Pomerol is pregnant, so we expect from her  in the middle of december - the last kittens from Matthew. Noelle is also pregnant and due to start of december - again Matthew is the father.

October: Now the small Nemorosa kittens left home. Time just went SO fast in all of a sudden! But they are in good hands in their new home.

September: Pomerol comes to our home from Pleione in Germany. It will take a while to socialize her, since she is a grown up female. She is a very sweet cat.

September: The kittens from Duchesse left home - with  the exception Antracit of course :-) She stays with us.

August 2009: We have decided to keep Antracit from Duchesse and Luis. Balmorel and Opal will be kept open, until now, in a pethome. On this way we secure that this line - which are now closed since both parents are neutered- will be able to continue in breeding.

August 2009: With both sorrow and relief we decided to neuter Luis. He is far to  hormonal, sprays when he is inside and howls when he is out in the run. And he lost weight now, so we can see he is was not feeling good! But it did hurt a lot, since we have plenty of girls he could have mated next year... But the cats well-being comes absolutely first, and we know Luis will settle down and have a nice life as a neuter instead...

August 2009: Vi fik svar på Populus HD status, og han har normale hofter 0-0 og er dermed testet klar til at bruges i avlen.