long haired cats???

He does have a double coat, though, and there are times he’ll get terrible matting and I have to sneak in with barber scissors and snip them out because it would just be torturous to try to comb through them, even with a mat comb. Worst is when he gets one of those around his bum and poop gets caught in it. That’s when I just subject him to a bad haircut to prevent other logjams…

matt, but like dogs and horses, when seasons warm, they shed by preening themselves and their buddies. I do a search of the house several times a day during this season to see if they've hurled up a hairball. They're inside cats.

The one that I had about ten years ago looked like the third one in the video. Double paws too. Very spastic cat.

Where did they come from...


Sea captains bringing longhair cats that then mated with local short hair cats
Or my favorite: Vikings brought them centuries before the Spaniards arrived! This theory has a little more credence than pure fantasy – they share many attributes with the Norwegian Forest Cat and it’s not entirely inconceivable that Norwegian Forest cats bred with local populations to create the Maine Coon. (This would also incidentally make Maine Coons one of the oldest breeds in North America, which is pretty cool on its own).

But Maine Coons are also known for their gorgeous coats. The traditional color is a brown tabby, (it’s certainly the color you see when you see the usual Maine Coon pictures), but actually, they can come in a whole range of colors such as white, silver, golden, red, cream, black and tortoiseshell as well as calico, tabby and shaded (but not Siamese pointed – this color is never seen in Maine Coons).

Their coat is uniquely suited to handle the cold, damp climates of places like Maine: a heavy, silky coat that drapes longer on the stomach and behind the legs, but it is shorter on the shoulders and back. This keeps the stomach and legs warm while preventing tangling from hunting in the underbrush.

Link to above,..


https://www.catwiki.com/cat-breeds/all-about-maine-coon-cats/

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A nice video if you want more info,...

more of a cold weather breed, as in Maine.

This is Hobbes at 8 months. These are 16” tiles. He now weighs a mighty 18 pounds.



We later got him a little sister, a tortie who topped out under 5 pounds. He's the most loving brother you’ve ever seen. His paws are like giant catcher’s mitts and he just holds them out and lets Pixie pounce all over him and he just rolls back and lets her get it out of her system, and then they curl up together. Such a mellow dude.