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Cascade Mountain is a registered cattery with TICA and with CFA. We actively show our cats in TICA’s NW Region and occasionally travel to show our cats around the country. Showing is essential to know that our Maine Coons meet the breed standard and we get the chance to see and learn from other friends who are breeders. We breed and raise healthy and beautiful Maine Coons. The breed is known for their wonderful personality and sweet disposition so we take special care in selecting only cats with this trait for our breeding program.
We acquired our first dam, a lovely torbie and white girl with a terrific personality and beautiful profile, and began our breeding program. Her first litter was born in 2006; many thanks to our good friends Sharon and Laura Cunningham for allowing us to breed our beautiful Callie to their handsome boy, IW SGC Coonyham Rough Rider. We maintain a small cattery, which is our home and have only a few litters each year. Our kittens are raised in a bedroom with plenty of room to run and play. Once their vaccinations are complete they have the run of the house and socialize with other cats we have. We spend a great deal of time and attention toward socializing our kittens.
*Disclaimer: Screening for this disease is currently the recommended method to aid in reducing the incidence of this genetic condition in our cats. Breeders can not guarantee that their cats will not have this condition. Our kittens will go only to approved homes no earlier than 14 weeks of age. Additionally, they will be vaccinated, microchipped, spayed or neutered, have had a recent veterinary exam, and are guaranteed to be free of parasites, bacterial and viral infections. We place kittens only to homes where they will never be declawed. Declawing is unnecessary and can cause lifelong pain and disability, even when the surgery is done properly. Our kittens are taught from babyhood to use a sisal scratching post which we have available in most rooms of the house. Sometimes when people approach a breeder with questions about getting a kitten, they are surprised that we are asking them questions as well. We are admittedly very picky about choosing the very best of homes for our babies. We've planned the breedings that brought them into the world, we've stayed up through the night assisting the mom during their birth, and as toddler kittens and youngsters, they have had the run of our homes and hearts for the past few months.
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Hello, and welcome to our website. Our cattery is just outside Vancouver, Washington and west of the Cascade Mountain range. It is also located across the river from Portland, Oregon (a short 20 minute drive). 
Our International Winners
We have been showing Maine Coons since 1999 in TICA (The International Cat Association). We went looking for a Maine Coon kitten and fortunately acquired our first Maine Coon from Betsy Tinney of Pinecoon cattery in Redmond, WA. Betsy has beautiful cats and is an extremely reputable breeder and loving pet owner, with goals & philosophies that we found matched our own. She also is active on the show circuit in TICA, and it so happened that she had a show-quality kitten available. That first Maine Coon kitten we were lucky to bring home was Shasta, a beautiful red classic tabby and white Maine Coon alter. It didn't take very long for Shasta to win our hearts... let's see... actually it took less than 15 minutes down the road. We’ve found that Maine Coons are addictive and since we first started showing Shasta, we’ve been lucky to show some beautiful Regional and International Winning cats, kittens and alters.
In taking steps towards producing the healthiest kittens possible, all our breeding cats are screened by a board certified cardiologist and must be found free of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy* (HCM), and are genetically tested to be free of the MyBPC3 gene (which can cause HCM), and are radiographed to be free of hip dysplasia.
