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sorry for your loss
by: Mary in MA
Mary

I am so sorry for your loss. It is the worst. I lost my baby this summer - and eventually ended up with two Maine Coon kittens. They cannot be him, but they are a real joy and make me smile daily.
I wish you all the best, and I hope when you get some new little ones that they make you very happy.

Holly & Mia

I noticed the following traits of my cat, Holly: always playing with the water dish, loves to roll around on the floor & allows her belly to be rubbed lightly.

She is smart, with beautiful & large eyes; has a mane that makes my daughter call her a lion-cat. There are also the tufts of fur that stick out well past her toes - that I like to tickle when she's playful!

Her fur is so long, but she has a standard shaped face, not "squished" and her tail is definitely fluffy. I always like to say it looked like she was wearing Cossack pants since the fluff ends toward the bottom of her legs.

She loves to sneak around the patio with us on any day, cold or hot and stares at the birds through the screens ever so patiently, only the tip or her tail twitching. Then there's her meow...these's no way to describe it except I joke around that she must be Jewish because it's a "Ma-hkk-ow" like she's trying to say Chanukah in the middle of her cries, LOL!

My daughter loves her because she sill just lays there while being hugged, except when she squeezes a little too hard, then she slips right through her arms & bounds away in a great big leap.

I lost touch with the original owner (she came to us through two other owners.) So I was unsure of the breed - I just assumed she was a strange mix. After reading this page and seeing all of Holly's habits already written down, as well as looking at the pictures and seeing different colors of the same characteristics I simply an astounded and without a doubt, Holly must be at least 75% Maine Coon.

These traits along with the fur characteristics have me wondering if our 5 month-old kitten is close to half. I had no idea Main Coons could be orange-tabby colored.

Thought I don't believe our kitten Mia is full blooded by any means, she definitely has an ancestor somewhere!

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Which shows & where?
by: Jenn Wow, shows, really? Without papers? That sounds like fun. Mia is definitely an interesting cat. :-) She only likes her head pet & very vigorously, lol! If you start scratching her back or near the tail (like most cats enjoy) she gets frisky & attcks your hand. She meows at me until I follow her to the bathroom, then stands at the back of the bathroom sink & drinks from the faucet almost upside-down after I turn it on to a slow trickle. She doesn't like to drink any other way! Holly will just lay down next to the self-filling water bowl and whack at it until it makes bubbles, then attack the bubbles as they rise throught the tank. Mia's orange coat is pretty and THE SOFTEST I have ever felt. She is so soft, I have nothing to compare it to.

Orange tabbies
by: Helen You should go to a cat show. At the shows here in this area red (orange) tabbies are very popular and always a crowd favorite. Big brown classic tabbies are also show stoppers. I love big orange target tabbies and realized my dream a couple of years ago with my coonie, Maineflashes Bezzer Buzzer. He is a deep, rich mahogony red and his stipes are a salmon color, a striking contrast.
Enjoy your orange, they are sweet.

Miss Hissy

My black smoke Maine Coon is such a great cat.

I found a breeder and brought her home to my 2 Manx cats, they don't have tails and I think they are jealous. Lol.

She has added a lot of entertainment to our lives, she "talks" to us, has major personality and is very loving.

She goes with me from room to room just so she can supervise whatever I may be doing, anything on my end table is hers, her paw will sneak over to snatch a pencil or whatever to investigate, she is such a brat. Lol.

She is already as big as my other cats and is only 5 months old with huge paws, beautiful.

Lady Jane Seymour

Lady Jane came to us out of the blue-her first owner moved to a non feline household. Having had a Maine Coon before, I jumped at the chance when she was given to me! She is gentle, smart, silly, and loves water! She's about 3 months old and growing like, well, a Maine Coon cat!

My Sweet Bella

I have wanted another Calico cat ever since I was a little girl and I am now 54 years old!!

My last cat lived to be twenty and I finally had to put him to sleep which was very hard. The best thing I could do I thought was to adopt one from the local SPSC so I went online and found my Bella.

She is soo sweet when she wants to be..lol and she rules our house for sure. She has her own bedroom complete with full size bed and two big windows one with a table in front of it so she can was and pretend she is chasing birds. I won't trade anything for my Bella.

I'm a Tortie and Calico Fan
by: Jessy
Let's see what yours looks like!

Our Mandy

We have Mandy, who we got from the shelter a little over 1 1/2 yrs ago.

When we got her, she had the largest, fluffiest tail we had ever seen. As the time has gone on, her tail has increasingly lost fur. Her tail is still large, but nothing like it was.

The vet says she is quite healthy, but we do not understand about her tail. Also, the fur from her back is growing longer around her tail. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? We would be interested in knowing.

Thanks!
Shirley

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Maine Coon Tails
by: Ginny - Tampa
I have several Maine Coons and my experience has been that the "Best" time for tails is from about 8 months to two years. My 8 month old has what I refer to as a champion tail, while my 4 year old has an okay tail - pretty but no longer spectacular. My breeder confirmed this especially with her breeding stock. Maine Coons also do not fully mature until they are about 3 years old. You will see all sorts of changes in their coats.

Eli's Mom

Little Bear

Eli is my Maine Coon and he is black. He turned 1 year old June 30th. He's the dearest fellow although at 6.9 kgs not the biggest!

I named him Eli because the quarterback for my favorite football team, the NY Giants is named Eli Manning. Hmmm I thought, tall dark and handsome and going to be a Giant, Eli it is!

We live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and I work in the oilpatch here. I have a 22 year old son and a 10 month old Ragdoll named Tiki.

About Freelancers and Cats

Not Exactly a Question; Actually, more like something I wanted to share but didn't know how to.*

I'm now semi-retired but before that was a free-lance copy editor /editor / translator.

Like other people working out of the home or otherwise spending many solitary hours--weavers, musicians, writers--I like to have cats around.

My tortiecalico was the bathroom cat; my black kitty was the kitchen cat; and my little red DLH, my "miniature Maine Coon," was the office cat.

She'd sit on my desk for hours keeping me company and occasionally leaping to the top of the bookshelf and jumping down again, landing with a thump on the computer keyboard.

(One wonders how weavers deal with their kitties' love for chasing balls of yarn.)

What would we do without cats for company?

*Note From Editor; this was originally posted in Cat Questions, but has been moved to this brand new Introduce Yourself/Chat section

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