Thread: How big is your Coon?

We have four MCs. The two girls are probably full grown now at just shy of 5 and 4 years old. The older one is 11.5-12lbs (5.3kg) while the younger is 13.5-14lbs (6.2kg). The two boys are still growing. The older one, 18mos, is around 18lbs (8.1kg). The younger one, 6mos, was 10lbs (4.5kg) a few weeks short of 6mos. From this you can see that the big males grow rapidly for the first months. I think that the older one was 12 lbs at 7-8mos., and you can see that he put on only 50% more in the following 10mos.

People do always think they are big, but we are used to them so they don't seem large to us anymore. When we took in our first MC mix, who was only 13.5-14lbs, we thought he was huge--as did everyone in the neighborhood. Now he would be nothing next to our big boy. Still, he was the neighborhood alpha male stray--beat up many cats before we took him in. The larger female goes outside with me (on leash) and people ooh and aah over her. One of our neighbors always says that she is the most beautiful cat she has ever seen. The brown tabbies look pretty spectacular when they are outside--something about the natural light makes them look more like wild cats.