Here is a thumpingly large Maine Coon. You won’t see a larger domestic cat unless someone calls a tamed puma a domestic cat. The Maine Coon is the largest domestic cat breed (excluding F1 wild cat hybrids).
Not only is he impressively large, I have never seen lynx typed ears with such long hair. And it is orange hair. He is an orange (red) tabby cat too (strictly speaking tabby and white). I always think that red tabbies are a bit special.
His hair is as long as a Persian cat’s hair that has been bred to extreme. His tail is plumed to magnificence but we can’t see it extended. The hair on his tail is about 9 inches long.
His face is as cute as can be and his head is almost as large as the head of the woman who is carrying him who I presume is his caretaker and companion. She may be his creator (breeder).
I don’t know enough about this cat. I don’t even know who took the photo – sorry. I am sure someone will tell me. He should weigh in at the very top end of pure domestic cats (non-wild cat hybrids) at around 25+ lbs. That’s a guess, though.
The world’s largest cat is on this page (an article about the largest cats domestic to wild). See wild cat species by size is on this page.
Associated: Red tabby Maine Coon Dante (an amazingly attractive cat).
the Eurasian lynx would decapitate this oversized domestic fellow with one strike of his formidable paw 🙂 In the old times , when the Eurasian lynx still existed in this country, the villagers were saying that in the winter when it was difficult to find food, the lynx would climb up on a tree and wait for a lone wolf to pass by, and then he would jump on the wolf and kill him and eat him.
fair
Well, the Eurasian lynx is the largest of the lynx cats and the female weights around 40 lbs.
The Canada lynx weighs around 24 lbs. I was thinking more along the lines of N. American lynx because the Maine Coon mentioned is an American cat. I was comparing cats in the same geographic location.
The Maine Coon in the picture probably weight around 25+lbs. So I think I made a fair comment.
kidding ? have you ever seen a adult male Eurasian lynx?His body is 4 ft long and if he stands up he reached 6ft or something . And he could kill a single wolf easily. So.. let’s not exaggerate here.
yea we want to see photos of your cat esp if hes a main coon!! id love to cuddle that big kitty
aww its hard. thats how i felt when i had to put cassy to sleep. She passed away 3 months ago she was a very special girl miss her so much. Although got jasmin now it still hard as cass was one of a kind so i know exactly how you feel. hugs