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Were you ever owned by a Maine Coon? If you have, afterwards you cognise the placid self-esteem of this pedigree. If you haven't been so lucky, let me tell you about Maine Coons.

The Maine Coon is one of the first elemental breeds of North America, and regarded as a indigenous of the nation of Maine (in fact, the Maine Coon is the certified Maine State Cat). A digit of legends and theories connate to its kernel include:

(1) Matings relating semi-wild reclaimed cats and raccoons (bolstered by the ungroomed outgrowth and the raccoon-like mushroom tabby foodstuff) led to the acceptance of the signature 'Maine Coon.' Initially, with the sole purpose taupe tabbies were called 'Maine Coons, patch cats of opposite colors were labelled as 'Maine Shags.'

(2) Another idea is that the Maine Coon sprang from the six pet cats transmitted to Wiscasset, Maine, by Marie Antoinette once she was planning her retreat from France during the French Revolution. But, supreme suppose the stemma originated by union pre-existing shorthaired interior cats and these longhairs brought to America on Viking Ships.

Maine Coons were habitual more than a period ago as a sturdy and well-favored national cat helmeted to live the belligerent New England winters. As temperament selects the biggest, brightest, and top hunters to blood ordered generations, the Maine Coon was a unprocessed.

Everything more or less the Maine Coon indicates an potential to vary to a loud weather conditions. Its smooth coat (heavy and watertight) is similar to no outer garment of different breed, and must be material to be respected. The Maine's coat is longer on the ruff, internal organ and knickers to indulge resistant hose and snow, and shorter on the subsidise and cervix to guardian opposed to tangling in the coppice. The hindmost air of a Maine Coon is strikingly close to that of a set of knickers! The outer garment body of water smoothly and is most maintenance-free. A period of time comb is all that is routinely needful to living it in top disorder.

The long, bushy process (when mantled circa the cat's unit once curly up to slumber) can indulge from unheated wintertime windward. The ears are heavily hirsute (both in and on the tips) and have a large continuum of drive. The big, round, gregarious feet serve as 'snow situation.' Their bigger sentiment and ears are likewise survival traits that augmentation analysis and audible range. The comparatively long, square-shaped opening facilitates greedy target or imbrication liquid from streams and puddles.

As my Charlie Brown proved, Maine Coons hone slow and do not realize their laden size until they get 3-5 time of life of age. Their dispositions delay leaving playful for the duration of their lives; they are big, gentle, even-tempered goofs. Even their voices set them isolated from remaining cats; they have a typical tweeting tone which they use for everything from courtship to cajoling their race into playing near them. Maine Coons respect to play, and some will blissfully regain bittie items and descend it at your feet. My Maine Coon idolized to hunt a down minor (in the wreck) and transport it stern to you to throw once more. They rarely meow, but once they do, the springy sound is unusual in quotient to their size!

Traits of the Maine Coon are reasonably many and extremely rare. They are glorious as the "gentle giants" and justly so. The blood has a clown-like personality, caring nature, entertaining behaviour and tricks, and a tingly yearn for to 'help' near any hustle and bustle self undertaken by their grouping.

Although they are people-oriented cats, they are not excessively interdependent. They have a dog-like ability and will ecstatically lay by your feet. Maine Coons will stalk you from room to legroom or hold plane a drawn movable barrier for you. A Maine Coon will be your companion, your buddy, your pal, but not often your little one.

My Charlie Brown was whelped on January 1, 1994, practical Omaha, Nebraska, and became part of a set of our unit in June 1994. He was a generous boy, mousy and calmness. Charlie's magnitude and opinion of yourself was not fully manufacturing until he was more than than 4 age old. He, truly, was a peaceable jumbo and was always blessed to round shape up and return a nap with you. His massiveness would astonish people, as he was 18 lbs (however, masculine Maine Coons can effortlessly weight more than 20lbs). His gait was a lumbering, slow, big cat loving of tread. His big ungroomed tail, sometimes, over-balanced him. He would move once called, if he fabric like it, but past he arrived he was a existence to see. Charlie was more shy than outgoing, and he would ne'er surmise of eating human race nutrient - that was simply disgusting!

I am opportune decent to have other Maine Coone; a pocketable 8 pulse pistillate titled Sugar (aka Chuga). Charlie and Sugar were the first-class of friends. Although beneath no setting could it be foolish who was the company and prevail captain - Sugar (all 8 pounds of her)! She would propulsion Charlie eccentric beside her unreasonable antics close to giving birth in the substance vessel once he considered necessary to collation on his favorite dry supplies. But, Charlie mortal the placid patrician that he was, would a moment ago sit feathers and pause until Sugar got fatigued of the halt.

Then, sadly, on the daytime of January 5, 2007, Charlie Brown coiled up for a nap and peacefully passed away. We could not think through why this happened because he was not livery or in anguish. It seems that his smallish heart meet stopped hiding. We hangar various crying and Sugar mourned him for various months. Charlie Brown walked to his own drummer but was e'er reachable to sit by your tenderloin or theatre a game beside his nepeta cataria rodent. Charlie didn't have a show bone in his body, he was always a gentlemen and a olympian placid gargantuan.

Charlie Brown, you will always be remembered and loved.