Jul 26 2026

The rhythm is gonna get you

  • July 26, 2026

Yaddle and Mycroft’s nine kitten’s are doing, very well. One of the advantages of helping Yaddle out by supplementing them with formula is that they are even more socialized than usual. Or maybe it’s a disadvantage, because when we enter their room they run up and want to climb our legs like scratching posts.  Tiny kitten claws. Need we say more?

The kittens were happy to transition to solid food as soon as they were able, and they mastered the litter box in no time at all. In fact, they got the run of their room earlier than usual because they combined their weights to climb up the mesh of their nest and collapse one side so they could escape.  Genius? Teamwork?

When nine kittens run up to us it sounds like a drumroll, hence the drum name theme.

Before you scroll down to the pictures of kittens, we’d like to offer a quick word on boys versus girls. People seem to prefer Maine Coon boys.  They want the size and the presence. That’s absolutely fine. People want what they want and it wouldn’t be fair to the kitten and them if we didn’t do our best to allow for the right match.  However, female Maine Coons are absolutely awesome in their own way:

  • It’s true that boys are bigger, but girls get big, too, especially when they are spayed. Most of our girls grow up to be 10-15 pounds (though there have been some both bigger and smaller). That’s still pretty big compared to other breeds.
  • In our experience girls are more likely to be lap cats. They form stronger bonds with their people and become extremely devoted companions. Boys tend to be more gregarious and are chill with everyone, but don’t always form such intense bonds.
  • Female Maine Coons are smarter. Boys tend to play the dog-like “I’m dumb and I like everyone” card.  Maine Coon girls are very friendly as well, but they tend to be more clever and cat-like. Many of our girls play fetch, and we have yet to produce a boy that does so.

Four of these kittens are reserved. If you are interested in filling out an application for a kitten, please email atlastcats@gmail.com and tell us a bit about yourself, your family, and your pets (past or present). Our applications have a lot of questions so we try to do a bit of screening to make sure we’re a good fit before we put you through all of that work. (And us, too. They take a long time to review!)

Riq (boy) reserved

Bongo (boy) reserved

Conga (girl)

Taiko (boy) reserved

Tabla (girl)

Bodram (boy) reserved

Tinya (girl)

Ashiko (girl)

Tom-Tom (boy) reserved

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Jun 25 2026

And then there were… nine!

  • June 25, 2026


Yaddle gave birth to nine kittens on June 4th, 2026. All of them are doing very well and they’re growing fast.

This is Yaddle’s first litter, so we were very surprised that she had such a large litter. Our best guess from looking at the X-ray we had done a week before she gave birth was seven or eight. She had given birth to the eighth and we were about to leave and let her rest with her babies when the last one popped out!

Mycroft, the father, was bragging about his “accomplishment” until he started doing the kitten support payment calculations in his head (okay, he’s not that good at math; he had to count on his paws). Now he’s disavowing paternity, but we know better.

We’ve been assisting Yaddle by supplementing her nursing by feeding the kittens formula a few times a day. Nine kittens outnumber six nipples, so it helps keep them growing. We’re definitely looking forward to when they start on wet food a few weeks from now!

All of these kittens are available. If you are interested in filling out an application for a kitten, please email atlastcats@gmail.com and tell us a bit about yourself, your family, and your pets (past or present). Our applications have a lot of questions so we try to do a bit of screening to make sure we’re a good fit before we put you through all of that work. (And us, too. They take a long time to review!)

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May 30 2026

Welcome Peabody and Whitney!

  • May 30, 2026

We’re excited to welcome Whitney and Peabody into our home. They come to us from Elm City Cattery in New Haven, Connecticut. When they are old enough we think they will make beautiful kittens with our other sires and dams. (We named them after museums and streets in New Haven, where we used to spend a lot of time).  We can’t thank Elm City enough for allowing us to make these two part of our breeding program.

Whitney (girl)

Whitney may be the sweetest thing on four legs. She is interested in everyone and everything, and even purrs when she sleeps.  She has an odd affinity for Chris, and is especially attracted to a particular brand of cologne he sometimes wears. (One working theory is that there is catnip in it, but no other cats are similarly affected).

Peabody (boy)

Peabody is a very social boy who wants to be near you and loves belly rubs.  He recently became interested in girls, but has adjusted well to hanging out with Logan and Darling Nikki, neither of whom he can impregnate. (Logan tried to impregnate Peabody a couple of times, but it didn’t take). His favorite hobbies are playing with toes under the sheets (fun for him, dangerous for us) and trying to sneak out of whatever room he is in to see the girls again.

Peabody has been getting experience on the cat show circuit, and did particularly well at the CCF show over Memorial Day weekend.

It was a good weekend for Peabody.

He’s getting very comfortable being judged

He made a few finals

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Mar 15 2026

These girls are available!

  • March 15, 2026

Paisley and Plaid (from the Fabric Pattern Litter born 12/16/25) and Connie (from the Rhymes with Bonnie Litter born 9/25/25) are available!

UPDATE: Plaid has been reserved!

Now, we know that lots of people favor Maine Coon boys because of their size, but there are a lot of advantages to girls. The biggest one is that, in our experience, they are more apt to pick a single person as “their person” and bond with them closely, where the boys are just generally friendly. The girls are definitely outgoing, but they definitely have a tendency to pick a favorite person, and you’ll know who it is.

Maine Coon girls are about a third smaller than boys. While they are still impressively large compared to other cats, they are a little easier on your back, chest, or wherever they decide to lay on you.

Like all of Hollywood’s kittens, Paisley and Plaid were a little slow to socialize at first, but now just hang out on the couch with us, play with the other cats and kittens, and come running for food without hesitation.

Connie is just a love. The only reason she hasn’t been placed yet is that we became preoccupied with human health issues and the new kittens. And frankly, she’s so sweet that we didn’t mind having her around a little longer.

If you are interested in filling out an application, please email atlastcats@gmail.com and tell us a bit about yourself, your family, and your pets (past or present).

Plaid (reserved)

Paisley

Connie

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Feb 08 2026

We sense… a pattern

  • February 8, 2026

Hollywood gave birth to five kittens on December 16th, 2025. All of them mastered solid food and the litter box with surprising ease.  They are clever and fast on their feet, which made them oh-so-much-fun to capture for photos.

Charli, the father, is oblivious. When we told him the good new he simply sat on my lap and asked for more chin skritches.

Marie loves fabric and sewing, so we named this litter after different fabric patterns.

Argyle (boy) – reserved

Tartan (boy) – reserved

Plaid (girl)- available

Paisley (girl) – available

Houndstooth (boy) – reserved

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Jan 25 2026

Fun with Sally, Dick, and Jane

  • January 25, 2026

Sweet Pea gave birth to three kittens on  December 7th, 2025. Mycroft, the father, publicly denies responsibility, but we did overhear him bragging to the other boys about his “prodigious swimmers.” Make of that what you will.

The kittens are doing well. They are very active and quickly mastered the litter box with minimal “thinking outside the box.”  They are very curious and run to greet us when we enter their room, often climbing up our legs (Tiny claws, ow ow ow!). There have been a few attempted escapes from their quarantine (they don’t meet the other cats in the house until after their first vaccinations), but were easily apprehended.

We named them Sally, Dick, and Jane because we already did a Jack, Janet, and Chrissy litter in 2018, and that was the next “two girls and a boy ” thing we thought of.

All of these kittens have been reserved

Sally (girl) – available

Dick (boy)  – reserved

Jane (girl) – avaiable

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Nov 17 2025

Rhymes with “Bonnie”

  • November 17, 2025

Bonaventure (aka Bonnie) gave birth to four beautiful kittens on September 25, 2025. This is her first litter and she turned out to be an excellent and attentive mother.

Mycroft (aka Mikey), the father, had nothing to say about the matter, though when pressed he did give a knowing smile that seemed to say, “Yep, I still got it!”

The kittens have transitioned to solid food and have mastered the litter box, and will be ready to meet people in a few weeks! They are very interested in people (okay, us) and will chase after our feet if we’re just passing through their room. (At this age you kind of have to shuffle by them, because they WILL get under your feet if you’re not careful).

If you are interested in filling out an application, please email atlastcats@gmail.com and tell us a bit about yourself, your family, and your pets (past or present). Our applications have a lot of questions so we try to do a bit of screening to make sure we’re a good fit before we put you through all of that work. (And us, too. They take a long time to review!)

None of these kittens are reserved.

Donnie (boy)

Connie (girl)

Johnny (boy)

Loni (girl)

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Nov 09 2025

Longus and Brevis are available!

  • November 9, 2025

Two kittens from Shirley and Mycroft’s litter are available!

Longus is a solid black boy with a darling personality. He is very much a lap cat, and if he really likes you he will chew on your toes. (Don’t let the lighting in the picture fool you into thinking he’s chocolate — in person he is black with a sprinkle of silver guard hairs down his back and on his chin. Update: Longus has been reserved!

Longus (boy)

Brevis is a brown classic tabby girl. She is also a lap cat and readily purrs when a new person she just met pets her.

Brevbis (girl)

If you are interested in filling out an application, please email atlastcats@gmail.com and tell us a bit about yourself, your family, and your pets (past or present). Our applications have a lot of questions so we try to do a bit of screening to make sure we’re a good fit before we put you through all of that work.

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Sep 23 2025

Let’s give these kittens a hand (thumbs up emoji)

  • September 23, 2025

Just relaxing

Shirley gave birth to six beautiful kittens on July 10th, 2025.  Mycroft, is confused by this whole “birds and bees” thing and has moved on to his next romantic conquest.

If you are interested in filling out an application, please email atlastcats@gmail.com and tell us a bit about yourself, your family, and your pets (past or present). Our applications have a lot of questions so we try to do a bit of screening to make sure we’re a good fit before we put you through all of that work. (And us, too. They take a long time to review!)

(Skip the next few paragraphs if you just want to see kitten pictures).

We named these kittens after tendons in the hand, because we’ve had some crazy drama around that recently. In late July, we were washing one of our adult girls (not her first time) who emphatically told us she did NOT want to go to a cat show by biting Marie on the wrist.

Now, we’ve been bitten plenty of times before, but this one was, “just right.” The next day Marie’s hand and wrist were so painful she could barely move them. We went off to Urgent Care, where she was diagnosed with an infection and prescribed the oral antibiotic that 99% of the time is the right one for cat bites.

A few days later there was no improvement, so we went to our regular doctor, who told Marie to go to the Emergency Room, do not pass GO, do not collect $200. Marie was admitted and stayed in the hospital for two days on intravenous antibiotics.

As the healing progressed, Marie found that she could not move her thumb into a full thumbs up. The orthopedic surgeon determined that a  tendon had been severed, either by the bite or the infection, and surgery was scheduled ASAP.

Surgery went well, but the healing process means keeping the thumb immobile with Marie’s hand and wrist in a cast for a month. Then will follow months of physical therapy before Marie can return to full function knitting, crocheting, and other yarn-based activities.

Oh, did I mention that Marie is right handed and that the bite was on her right hand?

Yeah, it’s been a time.

Anyway, here are kitten pictures!

Four of these kittens are reserved, but we don’t know which ones yet.

Digitorum (girl)

Radialis (girl)

Longus (boy)

Brevis (girl)

Profundus (boy)

Ulnaris (boy)

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Jun 30 2025

Pixel has retired and is available

  • June 30, 2025

Pixel

Pixel retired from making babies, got spayed, and now is looking for a new forever home. She is six and a half years old. She can be very sweet and we’d love to keep her, but things would get too crowded if she stayed.

Pixel is very much the lap cat, and she will spend hours there if you let her. She generally gets along with other cats, but in larger groups of cats she can get stressed out and  be a bit of a bully, so we ideally her new home will have only one or two other cats.

If you are interested in filling out an application for Pixel, please email atlastcats@gmail.com and tell us a bit about yourself, your family, and your pets (past or present). Our applications have a lot of questions so we try to do a bit of screening to make sure we’re a good fit before we put you through all of that work. (And us, too. They take a long time to review!)

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