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Black Smoke Maine Coon (Original Post) CountAllVotes Jan 2022 OP
Kitty looks like a black cat ... CountAllVotes Jan 2022 #1
Males are $3,700.....females $3,500 secondwind Jan 2022 #2
Just what I was thinking! n/t Stargleamer Jan 2022 #3
I had a Maine Coon for awhile CountAllVotes Jan 2022 #5
He looked like he was going to speak Walleye Jan 2022 #4
What a beautiful and unique animal. Arkansas Granny Jan 2022 #6
Another great wonder of nature! CountAllVotes Jan 2022 #7
😻😻😻 blm Jan 2022 #8
My grandson has a Maine Coon. Mr.Bill Jan 2022 #9
I live in Texas where rattlesnakes are common. Lonestarblue Jan 2022 #12
Well, it gets hot here in inland Northern California, Mr.Bill Jan 2022 #13
Yes they do survive heat. They have a dense undercoat that protects them from both heat ratchiweenie Jan 2022 #32
The one I had lived to hunt CountAllVotes Jan 2022 #15
Unbelievable color pattern!!! Karadeniz Jan 2022 #10
It looked familiar then it hit me... mitch96 Jan 2022 #17
Yes!!! Karadeniz Jan 2022 #18
That was my first thought too IronLionZion Jan 2022 #24
Me too! Leith Jan 2022 #26
Thought Rebl2 Jan 2022 #31
That is exactly the picture I was looking for. ratchiweenie Jan 2022 #33
That cat looks like. . . Collimator Jan 2022 #11
For those of you who can't get enough of this breed... WinstonSmith4740 Jan 2022 #14
The one I had was a rescue! CountAllVotes Jan 2022 #21
Wow. So unique. DinahMoeHum Jan 2022 #16
He/she is a real beauty! CountAllVotes Jan 2022 #19
Freaky and beautiful Demovictory9 Jan 2022 #20
This is the first cat I've ever seen with a widow's peak! ShazzieB Jan 2022 #22
My mother called it a "Witches crown" CountAllVotes Jan 2022 #28
Gorgeous! Those ears! calimary Jan 2022 #23
Very majestic creature IronLionZion Jan 2022 #25
That is one elegant looking cat! Uncle Joe Jan 2022 #27
You're welcome! CountAllVotes Jan 2022 #29
What a gorgeous being. Thank you for sharing. niyad Jan 2022 #30

CountAllVotes

(20,863 posts)
1. Kitty looks like a black cat ...
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 02:08 PM
Jan 2022

A black cat wearing a fur suit!

No reason to dress him up! He's got everything a cat needs!

I love this creature!

CountAllVotes

(20,863 posts)
5. I had a Maine Coon for awhile
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 02:18 PM
Jan 2022

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!



ratchiweenie

(7,753 posts)
32. Yes they do survive heat. They have a dense undercoat that protects them from both heat
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 11:48 PM
Jan 2022

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.

CountAllVotes

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15. The one I had lived to hunt
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 04:14 PM
Jan 2022

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!



WinstonSmith4740

(3,055 posts)
14. For those of you who can't get enough of this breed...
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 03:54 PM
Jan 2022

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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CountAllVotes

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21. The one I had was a rescue!
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 04:47 PM
Jan 2022

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!

ShazzieB

(16,227 posts)
22. This is the first cat I've ever seen with a widow's peak!
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 04:59 PM
Jan 2022

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.

CountAllVotes

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28. My mother called it a "Witches crown"
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 05:52 PM
Jan 2022

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!



CountAllVotes

(20,863 posts)
29. You're welcome!
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 05:53 PM
Jan 2022

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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