About us.

Welcome to the home of Purdyston Maine Coons, owned by John and Linda Calvert.

Living in a stone built detached house in a popular part of Cleckheaton, (a small town on the eastern side of the Pennines), famous for Lion’s sweets, (where you can still get those midget gems), and also Panther motorcycles of years ago, we have been breeding and showing these lovely Maine Coon cats since nineteen ninety six.

John is a semi-retired engineering machinist by profession and has a long term ambition to finish building a two inch scale working model traction engine in his garage workshop and where he also produces parts for old cars, notably Jowett as well as doing some woodwork.

Linda is now retired and so both have plenty of time to devote to the rearing of kittens plus all the other activities that have to be done to ensure healthy and active pets.

At present, (Aug 2011) we have  twelve cats in total, our oldest, Tilly, (Purdyston Albertine), is now ten years old.

We have two generations of stud cats, Purdyston Hugo Bosscat, (silver tabby), who in turn has produced Purdyston Montgomery, (Monty for short), a (brown tabby with white), both with our own girls.

All our stud cats have been tested for the currently known HCM mutant gene and are negative.

Hugo is known to carry the solid and dilute gene so can produce several colour combinations while  Monty so far has proved that he carries the dilute gene so can produce creams and blues with the right girls.
We also have an up and coming cream tabby with white boy born April 2011 who will hopefully be serving our girls in 2012.

The rest of our female brood are either neutered company cats for the boys, (they are big softies really and like the companionship of a female), or are breeding queens.  

Three of our girls, (Purdyston La Toyah, Purdyston Miss Elainius and Purdyston Treacle Toffee), are titled.
We now have a new girl, born from Treacle, who is a blue tortie and white, which, using Monty, has given her, her first litter.

Our most affectionate female is Miss Elainius or Ellie as we like to call her.  She is a black smoke and white and likes nothing better than a lap to perch on.

Our ambition is to continue breeding healthy kittens of good size, type and temperament along with a personality typical of the breed.  

On a different topic. if you click on 'Cat Equipment' on this site, you will find details of cat accessories that I manufacture to order, from my garage workshop although sometimes I have an occasional tower on hand. Details of sizes etc can be obtained by e-mailing me.