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(22,234 posts)A black cat wearing a fur suit!
No reason to dress him up! He's got everything a cat needs!
I love this creature!
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Stargleamer
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(22,234 posts)He was always in trouble! He would steal from people. He loved water as well. One of the last straws for him was jumping into the bathtub containing a 300 lb. woman! My god!
I kept telling her to leave him alone but she wouldn't.
It was very sad as I had to re-home him being he had a "hit-squad" after him.
He was not popular in the neighborhood but I loved him so!
I love Maine Coon cats but I'd never consider purchasing one!
Adopt don't shop!
Walleye
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(114,697 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)It kills rattlesnakes, which is exactly why he bought it.
Lonestarblue
(13,524 posts)Do Maine coon cats survive in our summer heat?
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)but not too humid.
ratchiweenie
(8,222 posts)and cold. The males are extremely loving. Great hunters. Great temperament. Great cats. I've had two and they are the best cats I ever had. Just be prepared to bell them if you love birds. Fierce hunters.
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(22,234 posts)I lived in a place that had skunks, raccoons, rats, other pests and within a very short period of time they were all gone.
My Maine Coon took care of that nonsense as it was HIS HOUSE after all!
He also stole fish from the nearby fisherman when he wasn't looking. I spied him one day walking down a pathway from the man's house with a 1 ft. long filet of salmon slung over his shoulder! He was some cat! How I miss him so!
Karadeniz
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(24,749 posts)IronLionZion
(51,422 posts)Well, kitteh had a nice make-over at the beauty salon.
it looked like this too
ratchiweenie
(8,222 posts)Collimator
(2,134 posts)Something the Props department would come up with for the original Star Trek.

WinstonSmith4740
(3,443 posts)I've had a bunch of cats over the years, but never a Maine Coon. "Majestic" doesn't even begin to describe them.
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(22,234 posts)I didn't know what I had on my hands until he grew up.
He had a kittenish meow and had some giant paws on him. You couldn't keep him indoors for anything as he lived to hunt.
Hunt hunt hunt hunt hunt, that is all he did other than rob people as I mention the fisherman in my earlier post.
He was a tabby striped black and white tuxedo cat and he was very very smart (too smart!) that loved water!
It almost killed me having to give him up (one of the people on the block claimed he killed one of their chickens and he said he was going to kill him!). After the incident with the woman in the bathtub occurred, she failed to leave him alone. One day she was fooling around with him and he nipped her on the ankle. She was making a big deal out of it and I feared for the worst. I truly believed that someone around there would finish him off.
I cried and cried for days and I was going to go back to the place I re-homed him with and collect him back. However, when I called to go get him back he was gone.
To this day I don't know if his was really "re-homed" or whether the place that had him got rid of him as he was more or less a one person cat that preferred HIS LIFE to any person, place or thing. He liked me just fine but didn't like other people much. If you messed with him at all, he would bite/scratch you good!
That was so sad. I don't know what I could have done to change things but believe me, I tried everything I could think of to keep him indoors but he didn't care to live indoors, esp. with a huge forest filled with other critters outside waiting for him.
Sad story really but I am glad I got to know the Maine Coon cat. It is a truly an original American cat that descends from the cats brought to America on ships in the early days of this country. They had to be fierce and hardy cats to survive living on ships and traveling such a long distances, hence today it is now called a breed of cat known as the Maine Coon.
So, now you know a bit about this fine cat!
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(22,234 posts)And, he/she knows it too!
Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)ShazzieB
(22,716 posts)And those are definitely the longest ear tufts I've ever seen on a domestic cat. He/she looks like some sort of magical creature out of the "Fantastic Beasts" movies. Beautiful but weird.
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(22,234 posts)I've never heard it referred to as a widow's peak but it is the same thing!
Some crown/peak indeed!
And those frosted tufts are beyond magnificent!
calimary
(90,316 posts)IronLionZion
(51,422 posts)Maine Coons are supposed to be the most dog-like breed of cat.
Uncle Joe
(65,276 posts)Thanks for the thread CountAllVotes.
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(22,234 posts)Glad to help make this day a better one for folks out there with this fine kitty at the helm of it!
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