What made you choose a Maine Coon?

My very first cat as a child was a Maine Coon. Don't get me wrong, I love my domestic short hairs to, but MC's have a special place in my heart.

After loosing my beloved moggy to old age I was lost without a cat. I didn't want a kitten so began trawling the free ads for older cats. Saw one for "Garfield with an Afro". He had a sad story and I went staight round to see him. I fell in love with this giant furball and took him home. It was only later while looking through all the papers, vet records etc that I had been given that I realised he was an MC. Found this site, got all my questions answered, fell more and more in love with the breed. Second one arrives in a few weeks time, a 3 year old girl.

I think we have decided to get another one, our current is a girl called Lily, our other cat a persian is sadly very old, so we would not want Lily to be alone.
I posted on the first page of the thread saying our reason for getting a maine coon was because we'd met a gorgeous boy called George when we got our persian, we chose the persian as she looked more needy of a forever home, George has never left my mind, so the next one os going to be a male called George! :)

Bin there more breeds than? haha.

I whas looking for a norwgian forest cat, but there whas no click...I have see a lot of them 12/13 years ago.
On a show I saw a MC girl form 4 months and it whas love on first sight :-)
Also by the girl. And I never heard of a MC before...but they bin super...I never want a other breed.
This girl I buy and 2 years later I hade 5 MC's and now a lot more :-)

So, I'm new here and for some reason I cannot start a new thread. Anyway, a few years ago a friend of mine told me all about this breed and as soon as I saw pictures of coonies I knew straight away that I would have one, one day. So the day has come, I just brought my new kitty home!

He is white, odd eyed and deaf and sooo beautiful! Hopefully he with get along with my 6 year old, black moggie, Negritta =)
I am so happy to have him around, can't stop watching him play!

My first cat as a small child was a maine coon. And, I have always loved big cats. (including those in the zoo!)

For years I've wanted a 'fancy cat'. As a child I grew up with both cats and dogs in the house, and DH and I have always had a German Shepherd. Our first (and current cat) is a moggie re-homed from a friend, but I still wanted a pedigree of some kind. I'd looked at Norwegian Forests and Bengals, but never been in a position to really look at getting one. After taking our beautiful GSD boy out on stud duty I met a lovely old lady MC called Daisy, came home and did some research. At that point I decided this was the breed of cat I wanted and started to look at breeders. Being as far north in the UK as is physically possible to get it still seamed like a bit of a pipe dream but I was so excited at the thought! After being on this forum for a couple of weeks I saw a post from a member here looking to re-home his stunning pair of MC's, replied and started a long email conversation. The up shot was while we were on holiday last month we drove a few hundred miles to collect Jasper and Bailey. The boys are amazing, have started to settle in really well and get on with the resident bad tempered moggie and the GSD, not to mention having the whole family wrapped round their furry paws!

Wife wouldn't let me have a cheetah or a leopard :grr::drool1:

I didn't really choose my first Maine Coon/ Norwegian Forest mix Feather She just walked up to my family's back door and made herself at home. My second Koda we brought in when he was 3 weeks old(his mom had him in our window well to the basement) and my Missie I found at the shelter and fell for her. before Missie I loved this Himalayan/Maine Coon at the shelter called Bigfoot Louie. He was Gorgeous but I had Koda at the time and I live in a apartment complex with a one pet policy.:sad1:
I say I won't get another on but I just fall in love with the big boys and for some reason it's always little girls that I fall for.

For many years I had moggies - rescues and strays - cats that had chosen me rather than the other way round and I loved them all. When the last one died at the ripe old age of 20, soon after I had lost my beloved 16-year-old springer spaniel, I was heartbroken and swore that was it - I would never have any more pets. I suppose we've all been there - but the house was too quiet without them all. I was browsing online one evening and I stumbled on some websites with pictures of Maine Coons and I started to research the breed. I couldn't get them out of my head - so big and beautiful - what would be the harm in just looking? I found a breeder not too far away who had a solitary black smoke kitten available and the next Saturday my son and I went just to look. Well I was blown away by the breeder, the house, the audience of cats on every surface scrutinising us as we chatted. They chirped and head butted for attention and one attempted to leap into my son's arms (he's 6 feet tall) from a standing start on the floor. Looking back I think it was a test of sorts and if the cats liked us - and they did - we had passed. We were ushered through to the kitten room and introduced to about 10 furbundles including the little girl we had come to see. Love at first sight? Definitely. She is now our Sophie - almost 2 years old and such a character! She's vocal and clever and totally beautiful. We didn't want her to be an only child and very soon afterwards I fell in love with a brown tabby boy kitten. Of course we took him - a big soft boy - my gentle shadow. Sophie and Max were great pals and I had no intention of getting any more. Sounds familiar? I was, by this time, addicted to Maine Coon websites and about a year ago I spotted a little white odd-eyed girl. I adored her on sight and being told she was probably deaf was no big deal to me - after all, my cats are all neutered. When we went to see her soon afterwards there was never any doubt in my mind that I was going to have her. She is brave and bold and full of nonsense - always keen to ride on the vacuum cleaner - as fascinated by light and shadow as the others are with sounds. And now there are three Maine Coons in my house and I really will have to stop at that...