Sonia & Salvo

Owining a cat is a lot like being
an american tourist in a fancy
French restaurant – you will
be overcharged, you will likely
be insulted, but, to you,
it’s worth it.
—Roger Carras

We started to breed Maine Coons in February 2005, when our first black tortie Maine Coon girl, Kleopatra, met our family. We frequently brought her to shows, where we met many Maine Coons breeders and knew better and better this wonderful breed. Thanks to our scientific education, we started to study color transmission and hereditary disease related genetics.

On March 2007, we moved in a big house provided with a nice 100mq garden, in the lovely town of Ponsacco, in the province of Pisa, and our cats are now allowed to freely and safely run under the sky, jump up and down the trees and take the sun in the sweet italian summer days.

You can know more about us by reading our breeding philosophy and you have below two short biographies of ours:

Photo: M. Bartoletti & T. Cimoli

Sonia : I was born in St. Gallen (North East of Switzerland) 30 years ago and after having gotten my PhD degree in Computer Science (2005) I work nowadays at the University of Pisa as young researcher. I extended my interests from computers to genetics as soon as I felt in love with Maine Coons, althought I’ve been a cat fancier since I was born: running down the streets behind cats hoping to cuddle them is one of my first childhood memory!

Salvo : I was born in Ragusa (Sicily, Italy) 30 years ago. I shared with Sonia the PhD experience and nowdays I work at the University of Pisa as young researcher, too. I matched my interest in cats with my education by creating Morgan’s Place web site and managing it is still one of my favourite hobbies (after cuddling and playing with our cats, obviously!!)

Photo: F. Spadafora

We often attend FIFè expositions where we try to give our contribution by offering ourself as stuwarts. These are the expositions were we worked at:

Salvo’s stuwart exploitations:

Sonia’s stuwart exploitations: