Thread: Purina free samples

Originally Posted by NCarver

Have no idea what a "stop" is, but not all MCs have lynx tips/tufts--they are not a breed requirement. Having said that, if you watch the video at the site, you can see that the adult cat is the same one pictured in the photo, and that cat absolutely has lynx tips. Somebody just lopped them off when extracting the cat from his background. Looks like a MC to me.

The stop is if there is a sudden stop to the bridge of the nose. Maine Coons have one & NFC do not. Tufts are a requirement in the GCCF standard & can be seen in breeds such as NFC, Siberians & Birmans too.

I think they use more than one cat. One of them that they use is a Maine Coon but I am pretty sure the one on the homepage is an NFC as his nose is not an MC nose...

Thanks scrapdragon - I just assumed it was only in UK and have now also joined the kitten club.

I thought it was worth a look....

I thought I'd ask the question to purina and the cat is a Maine Coon, so that answers that one !

Tufts are a requirement in the GCCF standard

Sorry--I misread your post. Thought you meant the (lynx) tips, since that is what appears to be missing on the cat in the Purina photo. Tufts refers to the hair inside the ear as I understand it, and that is a breed requirement in both CFA and TICA I believe (one calls this "furnishings" I think). I certainly see tufts (in ear hair) on the pictured cat. Plus as I said before, the same cat appears in the video and in that video you can very plainly see that there are lynx tips. Having tried to crop a cat out of a photo to be able to place him in another scene, I can attest to how difficult it is to retain the lynx tips.

No free samples on the US Purina One site!