Samson is New York’s largest domestic cat, we are told, and I can believe it. I think you will too when you see him. He is absolutely enormous and absolutely gorgeous at the same time. He does seem to have a sort of rexed-type coat (crinkly) as well by the way.
I’m not sure but it does look a bit like that and there is such a cat is a Maine Coon rex. Anyway that’s by the by. He’s 4 foot long and has over 67,000 followers on Instagram. He is of course a celebrity on the Internet. That goes without saying.
He lives with his human companion Jonathan Zurbel. Samson came to Jonathan via an unusual route. His brother and his brother’s girlfriend adopted Samson but their relationship ended and at that time Samson started to live with Jonathan and naturally they became inseparable.
Samson has his personal groomer, Carolyn Ayala, who travels with him to his television interviews and photo shoots.
People are requesting a sample of Samson’s sperm so that they can breed their own massive Maine Coon cat. These requests have been declined!
See some more huge Maine Coons. The Maine Coon is the largest domestic cat breed – see biggest domestic cat breed.
I wonder if Samson felt it was mortifying to be held up like that.
I’ve often wondered, as to breeding… since it takes at least a year before extraordinary personality traits are given opportunity to arise, but we routinely spay and neuter cats at two to four months, are we not allowing those to be bred forward? Do we mainly just breed for looks? Many is the time I’ve adopted a cat that turned out to be extraordinary this way, only to wish I had the opportunity to pay forward those personality or cognitive traits we’d love to see more of. I’ve never had the opportunity to breed cats for traits but it seems to me that the system we have in place doesn’t address this aspect.
I like the size of samson, but I do not like the long-haired cats. and introduce these Indonesian domestic cats. Raas cat name
Amazing looking cat. Thanks for commenting.
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Samson is Gorgeous, Gentle ,Intelligent; and loaded with personality traits I see in my domestic Maine Coons. I just admire these friendly giants. People say cats aren’t loyal but I know that mine are. [ for a cat anyway ]
Eva say’s
Yes, Eva, he does look very gentle. You can see it in his eyes and in the photos, his general demeanour.
What a BIG BEAUTY!
I’d love to care for a cat like this. It just hasn’t happened for me…yet.