Marechal Cattery is a veterinary inspected
and certified, family owned cattery in West Virginia. Currently we are breeding Bengal,
Chausie, Safari and Bengal cats. We take pride in
finding loving homes for our babies. We go to great
lengths and expense to make sure your kitten is
healthy, well socialized and ready to join your
family when it leaves ours.
Sheryl Koontz was raised around numerous
animals and also worked for a veterinarian for over
20 years. She has bred and trained dogs throughout
her lifetime and currently is breeding working line
German Shepherds. Sheryl holds a Class 2 Fish and
Wildlife Permit from the state of Florida for exotic
animals, which requires 1000 hours of hands on experience
for the particular type of animal, in this case
it is for Serval cats. She is also a Registered
Exotic Feline Handler with the
Feline Conservation Federation.
Why do we breed hybrid cats?
We fell in love with the hybrid
cats after adopting a Bengal cat from a local shelter
years ago. It was a natural progression for us to
move to the breeding of these incredible animals
once our hearts were stolen.
Future Goals
Our plans for the future are aimed
at bringing the cats we breed to the Championship
status in The International Cat Association.
The Chausies are getting close and
showing our cats over the next two years will be
key in the breed achieving that goal. We
have moved to breeding the show generations in
the Chausies and are now breeding F3 and lower
generations only.
Bengals are already at
Championship level
in TICA and in the ACFA the silver Bengal has just
been accepted. Beginning in May 2007 we can show our
silvers in the Championship class in ACFA.
The Savannah's are on the rise in
the show halls. We have a way to go with them still
but we can now show our 3rd generation cats in the
halls, but they cannot be shown for Championship.
The newest breed is the Safari.
Very few of them exist at this time and we are
very proud and excited to have moved to the F2
level in our program. This breed will take years to develop
but it is our goal to be one of the founding developers
of the breed.
