Malin Sundqvist - Dagdrivarn Maine Coon

My name is Malin Sundqvist, and I registered my Catteryname Dagdrivarn and had my first litter in 1998, so more than 20 years ago. 
I started out with Cornish Rex, but moved on to Maine Coon in 2004, and had my first litter in 2005. 

I was one of the lucky ones. I got a fantastic mentor who helped me a lot. When I changed breed, I got a new mentor with a lot of knowledge.

Pretty quickly, I got involved in the Health Program for Maine Coon, which was then handled by Maine Coon-Katten. I became the HD-registrator.
I continued with that for 7 years, and then I took a break, almost quit breeding, but changed my mind and started again.

Now I handle the database Coordination, I'm also helping out with registering the HCM results and helping out adding pedigrees when needed.

I started writing articles, and soon I got a bookshelf on my homepage containing a lot of articles, so I registered this domain and continued to fill the
bookshelf with articles. Then I talked to Debbie and Pecky and decided to remodule the page so that we could have more maintainers and translate
the articles into more languages. 

If you are interested in participating in translations, just send me an email at: Den här e-postadressen skyddas mot spambots. Du måste tillåta JavaScript för att se den. 

When it comes to my breeding, I have tested inside the health program since 2005, I work with outcross and try to keep the genetic diversity high.
I recently started to breed for color in some extent, please keep in mind I do NOT recommend this for new breeders, you have to be really, really 
experienced and also got a LOT of patience to be able to keep that balancing-act going, to select for color while you still do not jeopardize all other
important things like health, the clones, the temper, the genetic diverity and the type. Since I have a lot of years of breeding behind me, I decided to give
it a try, so now I work for Shaded/Shell and Golden to some extent, even though everything else comes first.