PrairieBaby Maine Coon Cats

PrairieBaby Prairiepaws'n (Songs for) Grace PP

Prairiepaws 2.5 years on picture

That's me on all these pictures. I come from a healthy litter of 6. Kinda proud to be Polydactyl on all four feet! My brothers and sisters and me looked so cool that some of us were asked to contribute our traits to the Maine Coon breed (whatever that means!). And by the way, I am F5 and ca. 78 % new foundation which makes me even more special, so they say.........

Here are the links to my parents, Charlotte x Whalebear PP

For what it's worth, I seem to have a perfect chin and profile !

I am proud to be Brock's grand daughter because I have his massive weight and boning. Size and heaviness has been doubled up on from both my parents and three of my grandparents without inbreeding. I have grown into a big girl with mounds of coat. A super healthy girl with great gums and teeth.

That's me, 2 1/2 years on pictures

My Silver is getting lighter and lighter,

mom thinks I am slowly becoming a Shaded Silver

Here is a picture of my body and tail:

Prairiepaws, 2 years old

picture taken after me raising a litter of 5

my coat and ruff will grow back!

The color of my Silver is much lighter in real.

Here is me in my favorite position :-) And yep, my daughter Charlotti does this funny bunny rabbit begging too!

one year old on picture

showing her wonderful boning and coat

I am extremely devoted and loving to my friends Judith and Fabian who really love me. I prefer to lay on Judith's lap for a long time, just like my mother Charlotte used to. They say I have inherited my gentle affection from my father Whalebear PP and many other anchestors. I must admit though that I am a little more reserved with strangers.

Would you like to see me grow up?

I'm around 2 1/2 weeks old here..

See the loyal expression on my dolly face already? :))

11 weeks on pictures

All yours...........

Growing those lynx tippings, yep!

Tree trunk legs and feet runs in my lines (not very girly huh?)

I am a fat girl at 15 weeks and loving it! :-)

My tail is "pluming up" as they say in Maine Coon language..

6 months old on picture

Here are a few of my full siblings :

Silver Creek (formerly ArcicCat), PP Hazelnut, Frosty PP

Kittens are between 3 and 4 months old on pictures!

ca. 78 % foundation!

Pictures of some of my 2006 and 2007 offspring from Tigger:

look at these cool faces!

wow what a jumbo HE was!

I can make superb Quality Maine Coons!

beat me on that muzzle, chin and profile.:-)......

"kitten" on the right with her owner Kristen

I think we are talking xxl here :)

Pretty cool what I am able to do when the right guy comes along, huh? My kids usually weigh an average of 12 pounds at 5 months :-))

Here is my royal pedigree

Name: PrairieBaby Prairiepaws'n Songs For Grace PP

CFF Reg. Number: MC1669F2-117364

Breed: Maine Coon Cat, F5, Polydactyl, ca. 78 % foundation

Sex/Color: Silver Mackerel Tabby (Shaded?) / White

Breeder: Judith Schulz

Owner: Judith and Torsten Schulz

COI: 4.7 % in 4 gens, 4.9 % complete (back to first generation)

Hips looked good, OFA pending!

Negative for the MYBPC3-Gen mutation

HCM, PKD and HD testing history in pedigree below:

PrairieBaby Hope Springs Eternal P HCM / PKD negative at 18 months OFA: "Good" at 20 months (brother OFA "excellent" at 12 months, sister OFA "good" at 16 months)	Prairiebaby Plowman Songs of Freedom HCM negative at age 22 months and age 3.7. OFA prelim at 8 months: excellent brother OFA prelim good at 8 months, half sibling OFA prelim "excellent" half sibling OFA prelim "fair"	Prairiebaby Plowman Songs Of Hope HCM/PKD neg. at age 6 months will hopefully be re-tested! HD: OFA certified Good half siblings tested OFA prelim excellent half sibling OFA prelim good half sibling OFA prelim good one sister did not pass OFA)	Sid of Prairiebaby HCM negative age 4 HD: OFA certified Good not tested for PKD	Maine Origin Unknown
				Four Paws Aquaita
			Kumskaka Eternal Mission HCM negative age and age 2.5, age 4.3 and at age 6 PKD clear at age 2 1/2 HD: OFA certified Good	IC Dynamicats One Special Mission,
				Kumskaka Eternal Hope,
		Prairiebaby I Love All You Made HCM negative 14 months, OFA preliminary at 22 months: good not tested for PKD	Oakland of Prairiebaby	Boakeman of Prairiebaby
				Foundation
			Lilly of The Valley of Prairiebaby [Manitoba, CA],	Foundation
				Foundation
	Prairiebaby Fall Into You P OFA: prelim Good	Prairiebaby Refuge In Your Shadow HCM negative at age 1 and age 3. Will be retested at age 4! PKD negative at age 1 OFA: prelim at 11 months: Good sister OFA good, half sibling OFA excellent half sibling OFA excellent	Prairiebaby Fear No Evil HCM and PKD clear at age 14 months OFA: prelim at 9 months: *Good	Souris Valley of Prairiebaby
				Canada Love of Prairiebaby [Manitoba,
			Prairiebaby Shadow Of Your Wings HCM and PKD negative at age 10 months and 2 years, will hopefully be retested at age 6 OFA: prelim at 14 months Excellent	Thunderpaws Singleton,
				Four Paws Sparrow of Prairiebaby HCM and PKD clear at age 2 1/2 OFA: certified *Good
		Prairiebaby Fall At Your Feet P OFA prelim at 14 months: good	Prairiebaby Master Weaver P,	Prairiepoly of Masterweaver
				Masterweaver Creation Shows Your Face
			Prairiebaby Shame Into Praise OFA: prelim at 18 months: *Good	Foundation
				Prairie Dawn of Prairiebaby
PrairieBaby Rest In Fields Of Grace HCM negative at age 14 months, will be re-tested at age 3 and 6 OFA "Good" at age 14 months! siblings of Charlotte that have been OFA tested so far: 8 x OFA good, OFA good, OFA good, OFA good, OFA good, OFA good, OFA good, OFA good, 1 x OFA excellent, 1 x OFA fair 1 x Grade 2(?)(Sweden) 1 x Grade 2/3 (??) Sweden	TCH Prairiebaby Ambassador Of Grace HCM negative at 19 months and 3.8 years. Will be re-tested at age 5 or 6. HCM Troponin Bloodtest: negative at age 19 months OFA prelim at 6 months: Fair sister prelim at 6 months fair	GC Tati-Tan Silhouette of Prairiebaby HCM and PKD clear at age 8 did not pass OFA at age 8!	CH Tati-Tan Etienne,	TGC Tati-Tan Big Mac,
				CH Kalicoon Joie de Vivre of Tati-Tan,
			Countrylore Aysha RRU Puskus,	GC Countrylore Dillinger,
				Glynnwold Allure of Countrylore,
		Kumskaka Eternal Mission HCM clear at age 2 1/2 , age 4.3 and at age 6. PKD clear at age 2.5. OFA: certified good	IC Dynamicats One Special Mission,	Dynamicats Westminster Tabby,
				Kumskaka United Colors,
			Kumskaka Eternal Hope,	Thunderpaws Salvation Thyme,
				Kumskaka Paxton Andrews,
	Prairiebaby Rest In His Shadow HCM and PKD negative at age 3.4 and age 4.1 OFA prelim at 17 months: "Good" brother OFA good, half sibling OFA "excellent" half sibling OFA "excellent"	Prairiebaby Fear No Evil HCM and PKD clear at age 14 months OFA: prelim at 9 months: *Good	Souris Valley of Prairiebaby	Foundation
				Foundation
			Canada Love of Prairiebaby	Foundation
				Foundation
		Prairiebaby Shadow Of Your Wings HCM and PKD negative at age 10 months and 2 years, will hopefully be retested at age 6 OFA: prelim at 14 months Excellent	Thunderpaws Singleton of Miaka OFA prelim result at 16 months good Not tested for HCM or PKD.	Thunderpaws Boyfriend,
				Thunderpaws Soozn,
			Four Paws Sparrow of Prairiebaby HCM/PKD negative age 2 1/2 OFA: certified good	Mufafaa of Four Paws [Maine, US],
				Four Paws Sunshine,

Here is the Pedigree from the database

About our Polydactyl line:

Even though about 40 % of the original Maine Coon breed was supposedly Polydactyl, some associations have closed the doors on most of these precious lines. To my knowledge, by the year 1999, only one active Polydactyl line was left in our breed. A couple have been added by foundation breeders since then. Polydactylism is naturally a wonderful trait of our breed. It is NOT a harmful mutation or deformity.

We decided in 2000 to start a new Polydactyl line here in Canada. We were very enthusiastic about this new creation at the time and proudly called it "The Masterweaver Line". ...............Over the years we have poured a lot of passion into these cats - in order to improve their weaknesses and enhance their natural strenghts. Of course the beauty is in the eyes of the beholder but we think that the project is slowly turning into fine piece of art.

The strengths of our Poly line is extreme affection, heavy bonedness, a moderate type, super coat, wonderful weight and perfect gums and teeth. Since good quality Polydactyl Maine Coons are very rare we had basically kept everything with Poly feet for our own breeding program in the past. We have only recently started to release the first Poly kittens into the gene pool. Please e-mail us for more information on Polydactylism in Maine Coons.

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