Thread: What’s your favourite type/colour of Maine Coon and why?

Maine Coons were almost non existent for sale (at least to my knowledge) here in Singapore (not even in petshops, no breeders; registered or back yard breeders) back in the late 80s and early 90s.

When I discovered my Rocco (brown tabby) from a registered MC breeder who owns a petshop (this breeder only owns 1 stud MC), I bought him without hesitation due to the limited availability of MC in Singapore. Until to date, there are only 2 registered MC breeders in Singapore....so, the choice of colors are very limited.

When I bought Merlin and Dyman from Poland, it was mainly because the breeder is willing to send them to Singapore, so I did not have a whole long list of breeders to choose from. It was either the breeders are not willing to send their kittens from Europe to Asia OR they are willing, only if 2 kittens are purchased at once for the price of EURO 5000 (this was 2 years ago EURO exchange rate was at it's highest peak, excluding airfreight and quarantine charges). If none of the above was an issue, my dream color would definitely be a Blue Smoke (preferably with Mackeral masking), a Solid Blue and finally a Black Smoke.

I did come across a Solid Blue male kitten at a petshop (claims to be imported from Perth, Australia but without papers/pedigree) in August 2010 for the price of SGD $3200 (around EURO 1950).
Buying a pet MC kitten (neutered) from a local registered breeder is between SGD $2000 - $2500.

You guys in Europe and USA are so very lucky when it comes to choices of breeders and colors.

Cheers!