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Welcome to our website |
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On
this page we would like to tell you a little bit about us and our
life with all of our wonderful cats. |
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Sincerely yours, Pia and Jean Rohde Larsen who will always be slaves
to this amazing breed. |
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Jean |
Pia |
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Together we run the cattery DK.
Boromir.
We dedicate all of our spare time, our house, garden and our hearts
to these lovely cats. |
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They continue to steal our hearts and our
supper. Splash water in their water bowls and entertain us at night
when we are supposed to sleep. |
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But we love our cats and that is why we breed. |
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In our scarce ’spare time’ Jeans works at Novo, and Pia kicks it as
a social worker helping and advising handicapped children and young
persons. |
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At weekends we are often to be found at cat shows around the
country. And about once a year we may be spotted at a show somewhere
outside of Denmark. |
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Why Maine Coon? |
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Like so many others we were fascinated by the size of the Maine Coon
at first. And its cougar-like expression. |
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But when we got our first two Maine Coons in 1993 we realized that
the Maine Coon is more that just a large cat. |
Mallou and
Bimmer born around 1992.
Our first Maine Coon cats |
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A charismatic breed now inhabited our apartment, no comparison to
other cats. These two Maine Coon cats moved in as if they had done
nothing else for their entire lives. |
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They followed us around in our apartment. They were in the shower
with us. They would play with the water in their water bowls. They
tossed around their food and they could fish out everything with
their paw. |
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They put toy mice and other toys to soak in the water bowls. Threw
themselves in our arms at night wanted to be petted and of course
went with us to bed when it was late. Only to jump around on top of
our cover and to fish for our toes. |
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We were completely sold and in love with this breed. And very, very
curious to find out why they were so very different from other cats. |
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A few years passed before we were able to find a breeder who was
able to answer all of our many, many questions. |
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I 2001 we found Trylleskovens Løvehjerte (Lion Heart), and Jean was
sold completely. Løvehjerte can be
seen under neuters. |
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He is a
giant black silver with white neuter.
Back then he was a little bit smaller in size, but in his mind he
was already huge, huge. |
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When we went to see Løvehjerte for the first time, we of course had
brought a cake. We sat down and we were very busy |
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playing with the kittens when suddenly we found out Løvehjerte was
missing........ Yes, because he sitting in the middle of the |
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cake and happily eating away. While we were being activated by the
other kittens. |
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We loved Løven (the Lion) as we call him today, from the first time
we met. Our beautiful and wise cat. |
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The same year we were written up for a red Maine Coon cat from the
cattery Guggers. We were to wait for a loooooong time |
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before Gugger called us and told us a red Maine Coon kitten had
finally arrived into the world. Guggers Red Gillmore was born, we
were crazy about him from the sec. we saw him. |
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Løvehjerte And Gillmore
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We were allowed to come visit when he was 4 weeks old, I will never
forget this. A tiny little red lump of fur standing there |
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hissing at me, and me just sitting there with tears of joy rolling
down my cheeks.
He can be seen under
neuters also.
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Gugger was now stuck with us. Little by little she introduced us to
the amazing cat-world. She showed us how to show our cats, |
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how to see phenotype, she explained colour genetics and much, much
more. |
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A dream began. |
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We could not help it. We had to start breeding this amazing cat
breed that had completely stolen our hearts. Our dream of |
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having kittens ourselves grew and grew. The extensive undertaking of
socializing the kittens, watching them grow into |
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typical Maine Coon cats was our big dream. Hearing little paws
running around... we could not wait. :-) |
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And we began to feel that we had acquired enough knowledge to start
up our cattery. |
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In 2002 we moved into a house and we bought our first two breeding
cats, Løvehulens Riverdancer and Løvehulens Kisses Off Fire |
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(both can be seen under neuters).
And our breeder aims were beginning to fall into place, under
qualified guidance by Løvehulen and Gugger. |
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Later we got Løvehulens Copy Dollar Princess, who was to become the
base of our breeding program. She is now mother, |
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grandmother and great-grandmother of many of our cats who are in
breeding. We still use Princessen in breeding and we are |
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very proud of her and her amazing qualities. |
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See Løvehulens Copy Dollar
Princess under Females. |
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Løvehulens Copy Dollar Princess, Løvehulens RiverDancer og
Løvehulens Kisses Off Fire |
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What is our goal with this particular breed. |
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We fell in love with what is called the world’s largest domestic
cat, so we will of course aim toward having the Maine Coon keep
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its size,
and its characteristic appearance with a square muzzle and a rough
expression. |
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So much of our breeding focuses on the very characteristic
appearance of the Maine Coon This we will definitely help to |
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maintain. Many of our cats have these distinctive features. |
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But what stole our hearts was the temper of the Maine Coon, a cheeky
sociable cat with a preference for living in groups. |
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A cat who enjoys being the center of attention, who throws himself
in our lap when he feel like it and who sits there watching the
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screen with you when you are working at your computer, only to chill
out all over the keyboard a few moments later. What |
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else can one do except love a breed like this. |
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So we are a Exclusive cattery.
Our enourmous love for this breed comes first.
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breed because we fell in love with the temper and ways of the Maine
Coon. |
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We see this is as the most important goal in our breeding programs.
The amazing temper of the Maine Coon. |
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So our main focus in this breed is a mentally robust and cheeky cat
who is sociable, outgoing and forthcoming in its interaction with
humans and with others cats. |
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Hence the
Engle killinger (Angelic kittens).
Fun, cheeky bandits who are everything but little angels… except
when they are asleep. :) |
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Cats in our breeding program are carefully selected based on their
temper, that they are strong, outgoing, and lets not forget |
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sociable; That they are able to live in a group, that they are good
mothers and fathers, since we believe these traits to be
inheritable. |
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Focus no. 2 is to maintain type in the Maine Coon. This is why we
are very selective when we pick out what is to be used in breeding.
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The Maine Coon must be a large, strongly built cat who is heavy when
lifted up and who has a solid bone structure. |
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A good coat quality. A characteristic fierce expression, a strong
square muzzle with a gently curved profile, a good chin with depth.
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Good large ears placed high upon the head and
with a broad base. And last but not least the feral expression.
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DK. Boromir
Mr. Black, DK. Boromir Mr Orange, DK. Boromir Little Wulf- Fine,
DK. Boromir Snowflake, DK. Boromir Klatre Tøsen |
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Focus no. 3 soundness in breeding. |
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When breeding, one must not just focus on a few things. Other
important foci are selectiveness with regard to inheritable |
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diseases and again strong, healthy and functioning cats. In nature a
portion of the kittens would die, these are the laws of nature. |
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In a cattery the cat always gets the optimal treatment, food, visits
to the veterinarian, de-worming and so on. On behalf of |
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Mother Nature it is our duty to try to be selective in a different
way. So that we still may have a healthy and strong cat breed in the
future. |
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This is why we have chosen to scan our cats for heart diseases once
a year, and we DNA-test them in order to, in time, breed |
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only cats negative of the myosin binding gene-mutation. |
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We also scan for PKD and we would not use a cat with PKD in our
breeding program. That our Maine Coon cats have healthy |
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and normal gums is also in focus in our cattery.
And a good immune system. |
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All of this is to preserve a healthy and sound cat breed. As the
Maine Coon cat is. But if this focus was to disappear we |
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fear that the health of the breed would deteriorate over time.
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What do I get when I buy a Boromir cat. |
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Our Maine Coons are our children. So we are very selective when we
pick out where our “children” are to spend their lives and |
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we must feel certain that they are to live their lives in optimal
conditions, in a good and safe environment. We do not sell a |
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Maine Coon kitten live alone without the company of another cat. We
would view it as abuse to this highly sociable cat breed. |
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When you buy a Boromir cat you get a happy, healthy and very cheeky
Maine Coon cat, who has spent the first part of its life in |
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optimal conditions and who has had a good and safe childhood. |
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In other words a TRULY ANGELIC KITTEN. Made on the basis of a
serious breeding program. |
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The kitten will have been neutered, vaccinated, de-wormed, health
checked. And with the kittens comes a kittens pack and life-long
support. |
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If you are interested in showing the kittens/cats we will also be at
your service to guide you and teach you the art of washing the cat
for show. :) |
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But go ahead and call or email us for a casual talk about cats + 45
39674415 mail
boromir@boromir.eu
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Sincerely yours, Pia and Jean Rohde Larsen who will always be slaves
to this amazing breed. |
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