Date of birth: 06/12/2018
​
Colour: black silver tabby blotched ww
​
Genotype: A-Dds-mcmcXY
​
Test HCM, SMA, PKdef: N/N
​
Blood group: AA
​
Ultrasound heart and kidneys (05/02/2020): normal
Drop of Doom, as his name says, could only be destined to stay with us. He is a wonderful, intelligent and curious cat, and he is a universal pampering acceptor: human, but also feline. Dark and Dubbio adore him and look to him as if he were a real little brother. He is the only Britomarti kittens who stayed with us and reminds us her all the time because of his sweet meow and his smart expression.
​Terre di Azeban
History
Legends tell the Maine Coon is the result of an impossible love between an American lynx and a raccoon. He should have taken some physical features from the two species: the lynx tips, tufts of hair on the tip of the ears, thick long coat and ruff by lynx; the long tail with rings from the raccoon. Certainly the breed took its name from this: Maine as the U.S. state in the north- east, on the border with Canada, where he was spotted for the first time; and Coon, the contraction of raccoon. The earliest report of a Maine Coon cat goes back to 1861, when the American writer Pierce turned out to have one.
Later, it was presented to the first cat shows, but its initial success was soon eclipsed by the arrival of the cats from the Orient and over all the Persian cats. Only in 1953 the first club was founded, promoting their selection and spread worldwide. Since then, the popularity and the love for this breed have increased exponentially, making the Maine Coon one of the most bred in our Country and all over the world.
Standard
The Maine Coon is a large and impressive cat, of slow growth and very sociable and balanced behaviour. The body is rectangular, with a heavy framework, broad chest and strong muscles; tail, long and thick, wide at the base and frequently brought to the plume; the legs are strong and muscular, with large and round feet and lot of thick tufts of hair between the toes; the head middle-sized, the face rectangular, the profile slightly concave, chin in line with the nose and upper lip, neck is powerful; the forehead is slightly rounded, the chin is strong; the ears large, wide at the base and well-spaced, placed high on the head and covered with heavy tufts of hair; the eyes are large and placed slightly obliquely towards the base of the external ear; the coat, shorter on the shoulders, gradually becomes longer on the back and sides and abundant on the abdomen, the texture is of medium length, the hair is soft, silky and with a waterproof undercoat from large insulating ability.
