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Pets & Working Animals => Cats => Topic started by: Alistair on October 07, 2013, 08:13:04 pm
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Getting a new cat on Monday, 15month old red classic tabby female Maine coon, can't wait, she's already as big as a small horse and still growing
I am so very very excited
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See, that's really excited
I think we should have a 'who's got the biggest cat' competition next week with TAS providing a substantial prize to the winner
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: ...err just make sure you put those big spiders out of her reach :innocent:
and maybe the snakes and that pinchy lovely scorpion...the dogs will be fine, the cat will soon be the boss of them!! how is Julie?
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Post away. What do you mean by biggest though? One of ours is quite big when stretched out (which is quite often) :) .
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no cheating and putting padded jackets on them.....that's not on....... :-J
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Happy, Julie's fine, stitches out Friday, legal letter sent
Womble, ooooo definition of biggest, errr up to you, your still going to loose, she's massive, I'm going to tow things about with her, like land rovers and big pieces of wood, did I mention she was a Maine coon, that means unless you've got a Maine coon, a Norwegian forest cat or a bloody big tiger you've lost?
Still excited
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Not sure where the knitting comes in but hey, roll with it
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She is stunning......she will need loads of mice...your poor snakes are going to go hungry !! I hope to get a big cat soonish...although not too sure just yet but fancy a Rag doll but that cat looks awesome
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:love: Maine coon :cat: :love: I love them. Don't think it should be allowed in a cat sizing competition though ;) I fell in love with the breed 20 years ago. One day...
Does she have a name?
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She's called mick
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Are u taking the.. :innocent:
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No, that's her name, mick, suits her too, no plans to change it either because she answers to it
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Does it come from her pedigree name? Unusual for a girl to have that name with the male spelling. I seen Mikk and Mikka in girls but not Mick. Certainly different.
She is a gorgeous deep ginger classic red. :love:
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Wow - those eyes - even via picture they look right into you, she'll soon put you in your place ;D
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I am soooo envious. I've loved them for - crikey - over 30 years. I didn't know the cat that was abandoned for me to take care of was a Maine Coon until many years later, but, once he recovered, he was the spitting image of your Mick. I called him Myc, pronounced Mike. He was the sweetest-natured cat I have ever met.
There are certainly folks on here with Maine Coons and with Norwegian Forest Cats and other similar types.
I definitely think we should have a competition, in which you all have to post as many photos and stories of your gorgeous cats as possible and we can all vote on which we like the most :excited:
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:alpaca: (http://www.financeglobe.com/FN/images/smilies/smiley-white-flag.gif)!!
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Womble, I accept your unconditional surrender.
Mammyshaz, yes the name comes from her pedigree which is simply red so her original owner called her mick, she's been neutered so I don't think I can show her but the best adult Maine coon in Europe (tica) is from the same litter I believe, I get her pedigree when I pick her up on Monday but there are lots of champions and grand champions in there, we may change her name... Not sure yet
Her eyes are more yellow than the photo suggests, they just are mesmerising.
I'm still excited
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That reminds me, I really should look out the pedigree paperwork for our cats one of these days :innocent: .
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She is beautiful. Sorry, don't think she looks at all like a Mick though. You'll have to come up with a better name.
I'm not going to show my daughter cause she is always talking about these. Can we have a piccie with you and puss cat or a dog and puss cat so that we can get an idea of how big she is.
Having just grappled with a stray cat that turned up here (into a cat carrier and to the vets for neutering) I'm not too sure I'd want to upset her ........ are they known for being of a gentle disposition???? :-\ .... :fc:
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I don't get her till Monday and then there's the settling in process, but as soon as I can I'll get some photos up of scale, they are very gentle cats
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we may change her name... Not sure yet
How about Mica? (Meeka?) it's near enough and a bit more feminine?
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We've thought down those lines, trying to maintain the ka sound, but honestly might as well start from scratch and call her something different, ruby is favourite at the moment, or Chloe, maybe Ophelia, or Enid
Want to run round shouting eeeeeeenid eeeeeeeenid, only cos mother in law (who hates cats) is called Enid
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Want to run round shouting eeeeeeenid eeeeeeeenid, only cos mother in law (who hates cats) is called Enid
good enough reason :innocent:
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Want to run round shouting eeeeeeenid eeeeeeeenid,
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A friend of ours has a cat called "Puthy", for similar reasons ;D
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Oh dear, now I've gone and done it.....
Getting this one as well, she's red too, both coming Monday, they're sisters
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So jealous, they are just divine. Don't call any of 'em Enid, even to irritate your mum-in-law. Bloody awful name (sorry M.I.L.)
How about Ruby and Amber?
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Oh, she is really beautiful. They are going to look fab together ... but .... do they hunt in packs???? ;D
So you have teeny weeny creepy crawlies .... but .... HUGE cats. Mmmmmm ..... strange that.
My daughter loves creepy crawlies. Told me with real delight that a spider had slept in bed with her the other night :o and was in tears the other day when she found a dead one on the floor. Now, I would never kill one but wouldn't want one in my bed :o or cry that one had popped its clogs. She also loves huge mogs and tells me lots of facts about them that she researches on the net. How strange.
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So you have teeny weeny creepy crawlies .... but .... HUGE cats. Mmmmmm ..... strange that.
Not sure that you class 6" to 8" body length scorpions and 6" body length spiders teeny tiny? And my smallest snake is 5ft, the biggest 14ft long, go and get your daughter a Mexican red knee tarantula, they're only around £20, a heat mat, about £5, some substrate and bark, another £5 and a plastic terrarium, about £15, it'll live about 3 to 5 yrs, and the bite is like a wasp sting, unlike my gootie ornamental which put you in hospital, they just eat crickets which only cost around 2 quid for a box
They won't be going out for several months, I don't think they've ever been allowed out, they where house cats
We've got a dwarf, sorry normal cat too
We are thinking of ruby and Ophelia but we are going to call them both Enid when my MIL comes round for a laugh
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Well, some of those are relatively teeny weeny. ;D
Daughter has kept Indian Stick Insects since she was 2. She would hold them so gently and kiss them :o . Collect all the little eggs for hatching and we would have mannnnnnnyyyyy tanks of them. ::) She would love the spider thing but probably love the crickets equally and not want to feed them to spider!!!!!
She needs something that is veggie.
I do have trouble with the concept of keeping something that could put you in hospital. Or do they only bite very rarely ..... as in I suppose there is always a chance your dog could bite you????? :-\
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They're purely ornamental, we never handle them, we coax them about with a paintbrush if we need to move them, far to dangerous
She can sell surplus stick insects, we've got Giant spineys, and sell them to the local pet shops for between £2.50 and £3 each, just wait till they're about 3" long, they don't survive the stress well if they're much smaller, my daughter started with a male and a female when she was about 12 and now she probably makes about £500 a year from them, there's a huge market for them because they're so easy to keep, it great because they become little business women, I know rosemary gets on average 50p more per insect than we do because she needs the money being a student.
Other things that are good that have marketable value are Malaysian hissing cockroaches, they're veggie and just eat kitchen peelings, as are giant millipedes but I've never managed to breed them, can't stop the roaches breeding, but it's ok I feed the surplus to the spiders
We've just ordered some praying mantis babies, going to give them a go
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They look stunning, I so want a cat again, we had cats for years until the last cat we had died before we moved and running the B&B we decided not to have on, I fancied a Rag doll and have it as a house cat, this and the next house we are buying (looking not so good now) are big enough for a cat to have plenty of room, I love a big fluffy cat so must look up their temperament.......so enviouse of your cats but not the other stuff.....even a photo of a snake makes me shudder. .but I too love spiders, I see them as very intelligent little things sent buy the fairies :innocent:
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Just lovely, did any of you see on the Daily Mail on-line the pictures of the Norwegian Forest cat chasing the fox. pretty amazing !
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::) :o :o What a stunning cat
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She is gorgeous, We have 2 Maine Coon crosses, Brother and sister the boy has taken the size of the Maine coon
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When we first took Fred to the vets, she said she thought he had a bit of MC in him.
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It's controlled chaos here, loving it, all is peaceful until about 6pm then Goldie (the red one, the other Micck is still recovering from being spayed) gets up and batters the dogs, mooches about, batters the dogs, ignores me completely plays with my oh's hair, batters the dogs, goes back in her crate and falls asleep
Well that was day one anyway, all fitting in nicely I must say
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Wow, I love your cats Alistair? they would scare any dog......and your cat is stunning Mary, makes me want a cat all the more, I love the huge cats!!
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3 times now sandy :excited:
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I think it's selfish having TWO Maine Coon to yourself. One should be sent my way. I don't mind which one :eyelashes:
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I want one too, they are very special, I did want a rag doll cat but adore those photos......I will see when I get settled in, I always had cats until we moved here.....the only down side is they tend to piddle in hidden places that you only find when walking without your shoes on, and of course bits of dead stuff on the carpet!!
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I have interviewed them both extensively this afternoon, both Goldie & ruby have decided to stay. They have asked me to have a word with the elderly (19) moggy cat that lives upstairs about defacating in the middle of lounge by their (temporary) crates. I have done this but the elderly cat, Betty, who is senile said it serves me right for bringing them home in the first place, she then put her front paws on her ears and hopped off muttering something about being a rabbit
I hadn't mentioned that I've sorted a male kitten out for next year yet, now that is exciting as he will be the first pick show cat out of 3 litters and I plan to show him. But that's a bit off yet.
Anyway they are mine, they are hilarious, I am now ordering a Tigga tower, I really can't afford it, but we (me & the new girls) looked at them on the Internet and have designed one, not going to use it till they're settled on the floor first with the dogs, so you can't have them.
Mind they arn't exactly cheap in the food department, royal canin Maine coon food at £28/4kg + hills scientific which is similar price! but that's the right stuff so that's what they're having
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You are going to spoil them...that's expensive food as well.... :o ...
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THREE Maine Coon!!! :huff: :huff: :huff:
Just wait until we find a smallholding , we will have four all different colours ;D
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I admire your big pussy!! wonderful !!
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Are you SURE that's a Maine Coon, Alistair? It looks exactly like Rio, my ginger Tom! :innocent:
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b*****ks, your right, she's not a maine coon, she's a tiger
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Ooh my mum used to breed Maine Coons - beautifully, fantastic, gorgeous cats!! Yours is stunning!
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Got me looking for cats for sale around here but not until 1 we move and 2 the pups older....I actually saw a maine coon cross with a rag doll so tempting...I like big fluffy chats with a bit of character. I can see this happening when we get a cat https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1405286036369959&set=vb.409428852487223&type=2&theater (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1405286036369959&set=vb.409428852487223&type=2&theater)
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BRILLIANT!!!
Where's the emoti-thing with laughing/tears :roflanim:
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Makes me want a cat more...they are always top dog!