Maine Coon Adoptions - Adoption Process

Do Your Heart a Favor…

To adopt a cat, take a look at our currently available kitties on our Petfinder.com and VirtualPetAdoptions.com sites.
Then come back here or to our home page and click on the Adoption Application form to fill out an application for the kitty or kitties that interest you and one of our volunteer Case Managers will be in touch. Also, we encourage you to contact the kitty's foster mom or dad directly to learn more about the kitty. You'll find the foster contact information on our Petfinder site.

If you can't decide on a kitty, that's fine. Type in "no cat specified" on the Adoption Application and one of our volunteer Case Managers will be in touch to help you find the kitty for your family.
After you submit an Adoption Application, you will be contacted by a Case Manager who will talk with you, your vet and your personal reference. This usually takes a day or two. Once you've been approved to adopt a kitty, then you will fill out the Adoption Agreement and pay the adoption fee. You can pay the fee by writing a check when you pick up your new kitty. You and your Case Manager then will work together to get your kitty home.

On our petfinders.com and virtualpetadoptions.com sites, you'll find information about the personalities, age and gender of each of our kitties on the Petfinders site. Please be aware, however, that while our vets do their best to estimate the ages of our foster kitties, we cannot guarantee that they have estimated correctly, so your kitty actually may be younger or older than our estimates.

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What you need to know about adoptions

To the best of our knowledge, all of our kitties are in good health when we send them to their new families. They have gotten rabies, distemper and FERCP shots and have been tested for FELV/FIV. We strongly recommend, however, that you take your new kitty to your own vet for a "healthy kitty exam" within the first two weeks after bringing your sweetie home.

Most of the cats Maine Coon Adoptions rescues and fosters are Maine Coon mixes. We look for Maine Coon traits such as ear and foot tufts, lynx-points on the ears, length of the coat and ruff, bushy tails, eye color, personality traits, etc. when we identify kitties in shelters, but it is impossible to tell from just looking at a cat if it is related to the Maine Coon. Because the Maine Coon is a natural breed and has not been bred to extremes, there are cats all over the world that resemble the Maine Coon. Thus, Maine Coon Adoptions cannot guarantee that our adoptable cats are, in fact, of Maine Coon parentage.

Adoption Fees

Our adoption fees for placing cats in new homes are geared toward recovering our expenses for vet exams, testing, vaccinations and treatment for each cat. (Our expenses often exceed our adoption fees, so we also rely on donations to cover our expenses.) Our adoption fees are:

$175 for pure breds with papers
$150 for kittens up to one year old
$125 for healthy cats from one to eight years old
$100 for mature cats over eight years old or special needs cats

Discounts for Multiple Adoptions at same time: We will reduce the adoption fee $25 for each MC/Mix adopted after the first.