How to come to a CHRISTOMA'S kitten earliest:

We get a number of inquiries from mostly foreign kitten buyers, requesting breeder/show quality kittens. Thank you all, we're proud and honoured that you like our cats and kittens. If you would like to be considered for one of our kittens please introduce yourself, as there are some details we'd need to know about you pls:

- Your current living-situation and holding-possibilities? (House or appartment, with or without garden/balcony? Secured or open? Do you have small children at home?)

- Do you have already other animals in your home?

- Your experience with cats or Maine Coons?

- Do you maybe want to breed or show the cat, or do you want a cat just for pet?

- Concerning your dream-kitten: boy or girl? Preferred mating and colour? How many kittens you want?

 

Here some additionnal questions pls. for all breeders:

- How do you plan to hold all your fertile males at home?

- Do you give the pill to the girls, or are the males separated?

- Do you have outdoor-runs? (how big approximately?)

- Where are your breeding-cats from?

- Do you have a website?

- Are you already member in a race-cat-breeding club?

 

Our conditions for all kitten-buyers:

1. As most of Maine Coon breeders we do not allow unsecured outdoor-going for our Maine Coons. This goes for pets too! (Maine Coons' hunting-wish is too extreme, so that earlier or later they would not come back anymore to you.)

2. We do not allow cats living as single pets for their whole lifetime. (Maine Coons do urgently need another cat(s) to live with, it also may just be a "normal" housecat, or any other race).

3. We do not allow pet-cats to stay fertile longer than 8 months old. (Maine Coons who are not neutered in time but are hold as pets, will get under big stress and very unsatisfied on longer terms. It is NOT "natural" to let them fertile when you are no breeder. Please also note that it is absolutely forbidden for every race-cat to be mated with any other cat without being a registered breeder, or being mated with another race of cats.)

4. All our kittens - also all pet kittens - get a lot of auxiliary services on the way in their new home: these are detailed descripted on our site "About us" - written in the lower part of the site.

5. Transportation: if you live in a foreign country to Austria, we either may ship a kitten by plain also alone, but only if there would exist a DIRECT flight to your home without changing planes and not lasting more than 4 hours, so only within Europe. In any other case we'll ask you to come and pick up your kitten personally. (Shipping costs are NOT included in the sales-price).

6. Our prices are different for each mating, and they are all according to the quality of the kittens. Prices are not negotiable, not for breeding-cats and not for pet-cats.

7. As we have very strong demand it is necessary to contact us as in good time, in case you are interested seriously. Best would be long before the babies are born. Sometimes we can offer fixed pre-reservations before a mating has taken place, but just a limited number of maximum 6 reservations per mating, and only against deposit. Deposits are not refunded, but can be used eventually for another free reservations-place of one of our future matings - in the one case when there is no pre-reserved kitten choosed with latest nine weeks old; in no other case.

8. Important information: if a kitten which is older than 9 weeks is reserved, OR if the decision for ONE of the kittens has been already made (normally with about 9 weeks old), the deposit has to be paid immediately for the fixed-reservation, plus the full sales-price has to be transferred latest until kittens 13 weeks old: the contract is fully valid. Any later change of mind of the buyer towards another kitten or mating, or against the choosed reserved kitten, is not possible anymore - in this case the paid deposits and sales-price can NOT be returned anymore. The kitten must be picked up at the fixed time from our home. Place of jurisdiction, as well as costs and risks are from the home of our cattery / Austria.

9. Picking up your kitten: pls. note: when you have bought a kitten and want to come to us by yourself to pick it up it is absolutely necessary that you are totally sound: that means: if you should have any kind of a cold at that time pls note that you can NOT come to visit us, and NOT come to pick up your bought kitten: why: it is much too dangerous that you may infect us. In that case it is absolutely necessary that you fix another - later - date with us to get your kitten - minimum two weeks after your cold. Thank you very much for your understanding.

10. You are welcome to write us in german, english and french.

11. CONTACT US: mail: christomas_mainecoons@yahoo.de; location: Vienna / Austria / Europe Union.