Maine Coon Cats

The vet told my daughter it was a maine coon cat. Don't people who's
cat mates with a different breed dispose of the young
It kinda acts like a maine coon cat stand offish, has to be involved
in everything. Looks exactly like the pictures of a maine coon cat in
cat books, loves to stand on the very edge of the house roof and watch
what everyone else is doing (i.e. loves heights). But it absolutely
positively hates snow.

But I agree that there is a strong possibility that it is not a Maine
Coon Seriously I doubt if there is a telling if any cat is a thorough
bred. Is there? I love the old saying if it looks a duck, walks like a
duck, sounds like a duck, it's a duck!



On 04 Nov 2003 18:52:39 GMT, ospam (Yngver) wrote:

Jim Warren wrote:
Questions.

This cat is not very bright. Is this typical of main coons. The other
cats are tiger cats and seem smarter than this cat.

I've never heard that Maine Coons are not as bright as other cats. How do you
know this cat is a Maine Coon, btw?

My daughter loves the cat and tries to carry it around. The cat of
course hates my daughter.

The cat is willfull. If it is lying on the floor and someone picks it
up, it will hurl itself off of the person holding it and go back to
the exact same spot it was in before being picked up.

He's trying to teach you to treat him with respect and dignity.

The other cats tried to teach it how to catch and eat mice. All it
does is smell the mouses behind.


The cat is a screamer. It screams when it is angry,scared, or playing
with the other cats. This is the loudest scream I have ever heard. The
first time I heard it I honestly thought it was a tornado siren.

It has to know what you are doing at all times. The first time it saw
me go into the bathroom and close the door it screamed until I let it
in.

Is this a normal cat or did its mother have a substance abuse problem
when she was pregnant with it.

Normal enough.

Where did it come from, arn't maine coon cats expensive.

I doubt it's a pedigreed Maine Coon.

Does one maine coon have to breed with another or can any two cats
create a maine coon

No, Maine Coons are purebred cats. Perhaps your cat just looks a bit like a
Maine Coon.

Are main coon cats native to this planet?

Main coon Cats are supposed to be large. This thing is 5yrs old and
really puny.

It's not a Maine Coon then.

I will save my other questions until tomorrow.

Thanks
Jim

Jim Warren wrote:

The vet told my daughter it was a maine coon cat.

He meant it looked like a Maine Coon. Even a vet can't tell whether or not a
cat is purebred for sure, unless there is a pedigree.

Don't people who's
cat mates with a different breed dispose of the young

Responsible breeders don't allow their cats to mate with different breeds of
cats. As was pointed out, your cat is probably a domestic longhaired cat that
looks like a Maine Coon.

It kinda acts like a maine coon cat stand offish, has to be involved
in everything. Looks exactly like the pictures of a maine coon cat in
cat books, loves to stand on the very edge of the house roof and watch
what everyone else is doing (i.e. loves heights). But it absolutely
positively hates snow.

But I agree that there is a strong possibility that it is not a Maine
Coon Seriously I doubt if there is a telling if any cat is a thorough
bred. Is there? I love the old saying if it looks a duck, walks like a
duck, sounds like a duck, it's a duck!

Yes, there is one way to tell for sure if a cat is purebred. A purebred cat has
a pedigree.

Jim Warren wrote:

The vet told my daughter it was a maine coon cat.

He meant it looked like a Maine Coon. Even a vet can't tell whether or not a
cat is purebred for sure, unless there is a pedigree.

Don't people who's
cat mates with a different breed dispose of the young

Responsible breeders don't allow their cats to mate with different breeds of
cats. As was pointed out, your cat is probably a domestic longhaired cat that
looks like a Maine Coon.

It kinda acts like a maine coon cat stand offish, has to be involved
in everything. Looks exactly like the pictures of a maine coon cat in
cat books, loves to stand on the very edge of the house roof and watch
what everyone else is doing (i.e. loves heights). But it absolutely
positively hates snow.

But I agree that there is a strong possibility that it is not a Maine
Coon Seriously I doubt if there is a telling if any cat is a thorough
bred. Is there? I love the old saying if it looks a duck, walks like a
duck, sounds like a duck, it's a duck!

Yes, there is one way to tell for sure if a cat is purebred. A purebred cat has
a pedigree.

Maine Coon cats are *huge* cats: the females are about 15 pounds minimum &
the males are easily 18 - 20 pounds. Also, they have a distinctive shape to
the heads/muzzles, & their tails are approx. as long as their bodies. If
your cat is 5 years old & small, he's not a Maine Coon - although a Maine
Coon mix is a possibility.

My parents had a Maine Coon - he weighted 18 pounds, had a l-o-n-g tail, &
could reach the kitchen countertop (standard 36" height) by standing on the
floor & reaching up.

Cathy

--
"Staccato signals of constant information..."
("The Boy in the Bubble") Paul Simon

"Jim Warren" wrote in message
...
The vet told my daughter it was a maine coon cat. Don't people who's
cat mates with a different breed dispose of the young
It kinda acts like a maine coon cat stand offish, has to be involved
in everything. Looks exactly like the pictures of a maine coon cat in
cat books, loves to stand on the very edge of the house roof and watch
what everyone else is doing (i.e. loves heights). But it absolutely
positively hates snow.

But I agree that there is a strong possibility that it is not a Maine
Coon Seriously I doubt if there is a telling if any cat is a thorough
bred. Is there? I love the old saying if it looks a duck, walks like a
duck, sounds like a duck, it's a duck!



On 04 Nov 2003 18:52:39 GMT, ospam (Yngver) wrote:

Jim Warren wrote:
Questions.

This cat is not very bright. Is this typical of main coons. The other
cats are tiger cats and seem smarter than this cat.

I've never heard that Maine Coons are not as bright as other cats. How do
you
know this cat is a Maine Coon, btw?

My daughter loves the cat and tries to carry it around. The cat of
course hates my daughter.

The cat is willfull. If it is lying on the floor and someone picks it
up, it will hurl itself off of the person holding it and go back to
the exact same spot it was in before being picked up.

He's trying to teach you to treat him with respect and dignity.

The other cats tried to teach it how to catch and eat mice. All it
does is smell the mouses behind.


The cat is a screamer. It screams when it is angry,scared, or playing
with the other cats. This is the loudest scream I have ever heard. The
first time I heard it I honestly thought it was a tornado siren.

It has to know what you are doing at all times. The first time it saw
me go into the bathroom and close the door it screamed until I let it
in.

Is this a normal cat or did its mother have a substance abuse problem
when she was pregnant with it.

Normal enough.

Where did it come from, arn't maine coon cats expensive.

I doubt it's a pedigreed Maine Coon.

Does one maine coon have to breed with another or can any two cats
create a maine coon

No, Maine Coons are purebred cats. Perhaps your cat just looks a bit like
a
Maine Coon.

Are main coon cats native to this planet?

Main coon Cats are supposed to be large. This thing is 5yrs old and
really puny.

It's not a Maine Coon then.

I will save my other questions until tomorrow.

Thanks
Jim

Maine Coon cats are *huge* cats: the females are about 15 pounds minimum &
the males are easily 18 - 20 pounds. Also, they have a distinctive shape to
the heads/muzzles, & their tails are approx. as long as their bodies. If
your cat is 5 years old & small, he's not a Maine Coon - although a Maine
Coon mix is a possibility.

My parents had a Maine Coon - he weighted 18 pounds, had a l-o-n-g tail, &
could reach the kitchen countertop (standard 36" height) by standing on the
floor & reaching up.

Cathy

--
"Staccato signals of constant information..."
("The Boy in the Bubble") Paul Simon

"Jim Warren" wrote in message
...
The vet told my daughter it was a maine coon cat. Don't people who's
cat mates with a different breed dispose of the young
It kinda acts like a maine coon cat stand offish, has to be involved
in everything. Looks exactly like the pictures of a maine coon cat in
cat books, loves to stand on the very edge of the house roof and watch
what everyone else is doing (i.e. loves heights). But it absolutely
positively hates snow.

But I agree that there is a strong possibility that it is not a Maine
Coon Seriously I doubt if there is a telling if any cat is a thorough
bred. Is there? I love the old saying if it looks a duck, walks like a
duck, sounds like a duck, it's a duck!



On 04 Nov 2003 18:52:39 GMT, ospam (Yngver) wrote:

Jim Warren wrote:
Questions.

This cat is not very bright. Is this typical of main coons. The other
cats are tiger cats and seem smarter than this cat.

I've never heard that Maine Coons are not as bright as other cats. How do
you
know this cat is a Maine Coon, btw?

My daughter loves the cat and tries to carry it around. The cat of
course hates my daughter.

The cat is willfull. If it is lying on the floor and someone picks it
up, it will hurl itself off of the person holding it and go back to
the exact same spot it was in before being picked up.

He's trying to teach you to treat him with respect and dignity.

The other cats tried to teach it how to catch and eat mice. All it
does is smell the mouses behind.


The cat is a screamer. It screams when it is angry,scared, or playing
with the other cats. This is the loudest scream I have ever heard. The
first time I heard it I honestly thought it was a tornado siren.

It has to know what you are doing at all times. The first time it saw
me go into the bathroom and close the door it screamed until I let it
in.

Is this a normal cat or did its mother have a substance abuse problem
when she was pregnant with it.

Normal enough.

Where did it come from, arn't maine coon cats expensive.

I doubt it's a pedigreed Maine Coon.

Does one maine coon have to breed with another or can any two cats
create a maine coon

No, Maine Coons are purebred cats. Perhaps your cat just looks a bit like
a
Maine Coon.

Are main coon cats native to this planet?

Main coon Cats are supposed to be large. This thing is 5yrs old and
really puny.

It's not a Maine Coon then.

I will save my other questions until tomorrow.

Thanks
Jim

I think you are correct. Our cat is brown tones with a grey belly.
the belly fur is more like wool than fur. It loves to have it's belly
rubbed.

Thanks for the reply
Jim



On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:12:26 -0500, "Cathy Friedmann"
wrote:

Maine Coon cats are *huge* cats: the females are about 15 pounds minimum &
the males are easily 18 - 20 pounds. Also, they have a distinctive shape to
the heads/muzzles, & their tails are approx. as long as their bodies. If
your cat is 5 years old & small, he's not a Maine Coon - although a Maine
Coon mix is a possibility.

My parents had a Maine Coon - he weighted 18 pounds, had a l-o-n-g tail, &
could reach the kitchen countertop (standard 36" height) by standing on the
floor & reaching up.

Cathy

I think you are correct. Our cat is brown tones with a grey belly.
the belly fur is more like wool than fur. It loves to have it's belly
rubbed.

Thanks for the reply
Jim



On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:12:26 -0500, "Cathy Friedmann"
wrote:

Maine Coon cats are *huge* cats: the females are about 15 pounds minimum &
the males are easily 18 - 20 pounds. Also, they have a distinctive shape to
the heads/muzzles, & their tails are approx. as long as their bodies. If
your cat is 5 years old & small, he's not a Maine Coon - although a Maine
Coon mix is a possibility.

My parents had a Maine Coon - he weighted 18 pounds, had a l-o-n-g tail, &
could reach the kitchen countertop (standard 36" height) by standing on the
floor & reaching up.

Cathy

In article ,
kaeli wrote:
All normal and this is not a Maine Coon, it is a Domestic Longhair (i.e.
a mix breed with long hair, available all over the planet).

Um, the Maine Coon existed before cat shows, and you do not require papers
to be a Maine Coon. I've come to dislike cat breeding and all things that go
with it, but I find it especially irritating the way they try to claim
regional breeds that are hundreds, maybe thousands of years old and snootily
declaim that it's just a 'domestic longhair' or 'domestic shorthair' if it
isn't descended from one of their artifical and hideously inbred lines.

Laura

--
Laura Burchard -- -- http://www.radix.net/~lhb

"Good design is clear thinking made visible." -- Edward Tufte

In article ,
kaeli wrote:
All normal and this is not a Maine Coon, it is a Domestic Longhair (i.e.
a mix breed with long hair, available all over the planet).

Um, the Maine Coon existed before cat shows, and you do not require papers
to be a Maine Coon. I've come to dislike cat breeding and all things that go
with it, but I find it especially irritating the way they try to claim
regional breeds that are hundreds, maybe thousands of years old and snootily
declaim that it's just a 'domestic longhair' or 'domestic shorthair' if it
isn't descended from one of their artifical and hideously inbred lines.

Laura

--
Laura Burchard -- -- http://www.radix.net/~lhb

"Good design is clear thinking made visible." -- Edward Tufte

Um, the Maine Coon existed before cat shows, and you do not require papers
to be a Maine Coon. I've come to dislike cat breeding and all things that go
with it, but I find it especially irritating the way they try to claim
regional breeds that are hundreds, maybe thousands of years old and snootily
declaim that it's just a 'domestic longhair' or 'domestic shorthair' if it
isn't descended from one of their artifical and hideously inbred lines.

Laura

I suppose that would depend on the way you look at it. The ''look" existed, but
not the name. Like the Scottish Fold. Somebody found a litter of folded eared
cats in a barn, started breeding them, and viola, the Scottish Fold. There were
undoubedly folded-eared cats that existed prior, but were they "Scottish
Folds"? The name didn't exist. Same with Balinese. Longhairs have turned up in
Siamese litters for centuries, but they didn't really have a name, until the
60's.

Somebody correct me if this is wrong, but it's my understanding. .

Sherry