I was told that he might be a Maine coon and after looking up the info, decided that he was. The vet tells me she doesn't think so. How can I tell? I've attached his picture. Thanx.
Hi...I'll answer on your post and perhaps others may leave comments. We have some very wise regulars!
Don't be upset but your cat is almost certainly not a Maine Coon. This is because:
- He doesn't quite look like a Maine Coon although he is similar, a kind of look-a-like. That said judging only by appearance is difficult because a Maine Coon cat might be a Maine Coon cat but not one that is breed very well so that it is not of the right "type"
- Maine Coon cats are purebred cats and purebred cats need a pedigree to prove that they are purebred. Sometimes this might not be available but it usually is. It could be argued that if there is not documentary evidence that a cat is purebred then that cat is not purebred (unless DNA testing can be done).
- Almost all people who don't know if their cat is a breed of domestic cat (a purebred cat) in fact live with a non purebred cat meaning a mixed breed cat or domestic shorthair cat or as the CFA call them "Household Pets"
We get quite a lot of people asking the same question - a good question.
And every time the answer is more or less the same. There are quite a lot of look-a-like cats and also cats that are one removed from purebred (
for example a Maine Coon "mix").
This might be the case with your cat. Now that I have said all that you will no doubt produce some documents!
One last point from me. He is very handsome indeed and as good as any Maine Coon cat or any other cat - purebred or not.
Lol… I don’t care if that stupid tree does produce apples… If Johnny Appleseed didn’t stamp his seal on it, it’s not an apple tree… It must be a pear lookalike. Bwahaha!!! Silly people… Don’t you realize that the Sun in the sky is still there, even when the blind man can’t see it?
Yes, if the cat associations don’t say he is a Maine Coon he isn’t. However, that is wrong because they have mashed it all up to put it crudely.
Yeah… Lol… Mashed is an apt term. There is also, the fact that my Native ancestors were (and still are actually) listed in the American pantheon, as a wild animal, not to be confused with humans at all… I guess that makes me a lookalike human, not a real one… Bwahaha!!! The arrogance of people is astounding…
The arrogance of humankind is something that really bugs the hell out of me and it causes untold damage to animals and nature. Humans are a long way from being truly enlightened and civilised.
True. People like to build their little club houses, and pretend that anything that doesn’t originate from there, is invalid. That in itself is okay, if they wish to shut themselves off from the world around them, but when they start to extend tentacles out into the world, in an effort to dictate their reality on the rest of the world, it becomes a problem which must be challenged. The world doesn’t dictate to their little club houses, and they need to realize, that there’s more people in the world they refuse to be a part of, than those in their club. We say truth based on reality. They speak truth based on their own made up fantasy.
How is it that they can take a natural creature, breed it to an unrealistic degree, and then say that the natural one is the false one? It just boggles my mind.
Here is pic . Thoughts
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Do u have email I could send too.
Dana, please go to the top of the website and look in the right hand column and you’ll see some words against a orange background. Please click on that and send me the photo. Thanks.
Trying to find out if my kitten is a maine coin or part coon
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