Welcome to our Maine-Coon Cattery website.
We have kittens available from our friends - cattery Bodiamlife (Kharkov, Ukraine)! You can ask about available kittens of our friends in social networks or write to us by e-mail.
Parents of kittens (Faydark lines).
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Welcome to our Maine-Coon Cattery website.
Our cattery is called “Faydark”. Cattery is situated in Kharkov city (Ukraine), registered in the international felinological system FIFE (“Winner Cat” club, Kharkov).
We are professionally engaged in breeding maine-coon cats since 2016. The main direction is black blotched tabby (such color is also called “wild”) and white colors. Also, great attention is paid to good health, good heredity, breed characteristics and the true inimitable nature of maine-coon cats!
We are small home cattery and we haven’t many kittens at the same time, so we can pay maximum attention to each kitten that we grow. Our cats are members of our family, receive high-quality food and care.
Kittens move to new homes after 3 months with a full set of documents (club certificate of origin or pedigree, veterinary passport with vaccination marks, contract). As pets kittens move only after neutering. Sale of kittens with the right of breeding is limited.
Our kittens live in many cities of Ukraine, and also in such countries as USA (Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Maine), Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Hungary, Great Britain, Poland.
The history of our Maine Coon cattery.
Hello, my name is Svitlana, and I am from Kharkov. Maine Coons entered to our life imperceptibly and gradually.
In 2013, my husband and I visited the cat show, why I don’t remember exactly, but it seems like we had to try how to work our new camera. The exhibition was very crowded, we could not photograph the cats, but... my husband and I saw a cat that was huge, we asked "Who is this?" and his owner said: "This is Maine Coon! He is only 8 months old, and he will still grow..."
Then the husband admitted that he has a dream: to have Maine Coon! We can say that with these words our fate was changed, although we forgot about it for a whole year, until the next exhibition.
When we visited the exhibition again, I already got excited about the idea of buying a kitten, but not a Maine Coon, but a Bengal. I really liked their color, but my husband still wanted Maine Coon. In general, we did not agree who we would buy and said that we would come tomorrow when we decided, but we did not come. I turned on the computer and typed the cherished words "Maine Coon kitten", and saw the sites of сat catteries. I didn’t even notice how these sites of catteries from around the world carried me away, I saw that Maine Coons are different. I began to read about the breed, and about the conditions of sale, and I was more and more interested in this breed.
My husband wanted on wild color Maine Coon kitten, and I began to look such Maine Coons. At first, we were looking for a female cat, because the males, according to my husband, is stubborn, unkind, ant they need a special approach, and the female cat, we thought, would be more complaisant. In addition, we already had one female cat, phenotypically of the "Thai" breed.
Of course, we watched the ads on advertising platforms, since we were attracted by the price there, three times cheaper than we were told at the show. Kittens were offered from cats without pedigrees, without documents, not castrated, it was possible to breed, they only promised to show parents... But I did not call any of them. Although on the sites of catteries there was about compulsory castration, and we, to be honest, then were against it. And the price of breeding seemed to us "cosmic". We wanted a kitten like everyone else — cheaper, but we decided that without documents we would not take a kitten. We decided that we would buy only in the cattery. The main thing for us was to find someone who will win our hearts.
According to the law of meanness, what you are looking for is a little further than necessary. In Kharkov, we did not find kittens. And the nursery where we liked the kittens was in a different area. After talking with the breeder, we decided to go there and watch. breeder preliminary negotiations. I already knew a lot, thanks to the Maine Coon forum, I read how to choose a kitten, what to look for, even found out what German blood is, and where American roots are...
There were five wild color Maine Coons in the cattery, although I already guessed which of them was the most beautiful... And I guessed! When we arrived at the cattery, we were greeted by five rather big kittens, a whole gang. Two kittens immediately approached my husband and stretched out on his legs, like on a big claw-tip, and a cat with the proud name ofBodiam Harley Devidson went to meet me. I chose it for myself, my husband agreed, although then he always laughed and said that all the kittens were like twins, and he did not understand how I distinguished Harley.
Expectations from the cattery, what it should be like, how kittens should behave, conditions of detention, everything came true. And the documents, and advice on feeding, and the contract... I am very glad that before such a serious decision, I decided to look for information, I received extremely useful information, thanks to which the right decision was made, otherwise we could be disappointed, we would did not dare to go to another city and would choose only at the price, with hands, without documents...
Subsequently, since we loved this breed very much, it was decided to register a cattery and buy cats with breeding rights. This happened after as many as 3 years, in 2016. We called our Maine Coon cattery Faydark, as this name means a lot to us.
Caution! Scammers!
I didn't think to write an article about scammers who sell kittens using photos stolen from websites, but, apparently, I will have to do this, since the number of letters from people who have suffered from scammers in the United States is growing.
My site is quite high in the search, so I hope that a lot of people from the United States will read this article and not let themselves be fooled, tell their friends and relatives about it. In this case, nothing can protect You from losing money except for common sense and understanding how a scam site looks like.
First of all, we are talking about scammers in the United States. There is no other country where pedigree kitten fraud is as widespread as in the United States. I believe that long ago the police should have been interested in this, but for some reason the number of fake sites continues to grow, people are deceived and the money cannot be returned.
Below are 2 screenshots in the google search for the query “maine coon cattery USA” (screenshots 1 and 2) and 1 screenshot for the query “maine coon cattery Ukraine”.
As you can see from the screenshots, in the United States the scam sites are in the top of the search, they pay for advertising to Google. I counted 6 scam sites only on the first page of the search. They are all advertised by Google.
In Ukraine, I have not found a such fake site. There are newer sites, there are already abandoned ones, but there are no such ephemeral sites, and they cannot appear, since advertising on Google is beyond the means of our scammers. It is expensive even for catteries.
The second very important point is the Maine Coon price. I do not know of registered cattery in the USA that can offer purebred kittens for $700, because veterinary care, vaccinations, raising kittens in the USA are much more expensive. And as far as I know, to buy a purebred kitten from a good cattery, you must first wait on the waiting list. The scheme “wanted - opened the site - chose - bought” does not work. In good US catteries, kittens are in reserve even before birth, there are usually few of them, and there is no such choice of kittens as on scam sites. Why do so many people think they can buy a purebred kitten in the US for this price? Is this a psychological minimum that people don't mind giving to scammers?
If such a price is indicated on the site (and indeed the price is indicated) - this is a red flag! First, the price should not be written on the site, as it may differ due to objective reasons. For example, for some countries it is necessary to quarantine for up to 7-11 months, so the price of a kitten for such countries will be much higher.
Secondly, it is an individual matter of each breeder, how much he values his work. Usually breeders do not write the price under the kitten, this is not a product. A kitten can generally be donated or exchanged for a kitten from another cattery, which many people do.
On the sites of scammers, kittens of various colors are shot on different backgrounds (stolen photos are usually from the sites of Russian catteries), usually only 1 photo per kitten. The kitten has only a name (no cattery prefix), no date of birth, no parents, no opportunity to see other kittens from this litter, no pedigree. Usually not even the color is indicated. But it is often written that the guarantee is 1 year and 30 days for a money back...
Apparently they use the same site template, as all sites look like a copy.
This is how the menu looks like on such sites. There are free kittens, but their parents are absent (no males and females, no pedigree), and a lot of unnecessary information to lull the vigilance... some guarantees, some kind of policy... The site looks kind of reliable, but the sites of real catteries cannot look like that.
The site of the cattery is, first of all, the history of this cattery, its veterans, its litters, graduates. And if it is written that the cattery has been breeding Maine Coons since 2005, then it cannot have such a minimum of information.
Try to find the name of the cattery in the Google. If the cattery has been registered for a long time, hundreds of links will point to it, there will be news and photos not only of this year, but for the entire period of its existence. Because catteries usually participate in exhibitions, their kittens can take part in them, get into another cattery and get news, and the name of the cattery will be in social networks or in catalogs of exhibitions.
On Facebook, the situation with scammers is no better. Every day people write about scammers who create pages with stolen photos.
A few tips to avoid falling into the clutches of scammers:
- Study the site carefully, it shouldn't look just made. You can see information about this site in the "who is" service, see when the domain is registered. A new site is dangerous.
- Search for information about the cattery on Google. Call or write to the TICA or CFA office (or other clubs You have in your country). They have information about all registered catteries in the USA.
- Ask for the contacts of buyers who bought a kitten several years ago. On the social network, check the account of this buyer. He should have a photo of the kitten added a few years ago. Write to this buyer, ask who he bought the kitten from.
- Ask for the registration of the cattery. Ask for a photo and video of this particular kitten with a piece of paper on which your name or phone number will be written.
- Ask for a video chat showing the parents and the kitten. Don't worry, even a non-English breeder is able to show the parents and the kitten on Skype or WhatsApp.
