Thread: How do you measure your Coon, paw to paw or nose to tail?

By coincidence I came accross this article yesterday.

I am only a humble mc owner but it does seem that his weights are a fair bit out ,

I do however understand graphs and the ones in the article are misleading because both the masurements are far from constant so the straight line it shows is in fact nothing like it. Maybe it isnt deliberate I obviously cant say.

I did find the paw to paw measuring helpful - so much easier to do.
ive been trying to measure my two clowns for about a week , As soon as the tape comes out the game begins . An accurate measurement has become almost impossible especially as after a few failures .Now when they see the tape they just think oh good its that nice game again (typical mc)

Paw to paw however is easy - its a game in itself. When they are in the kitchen i just hold the tape high up by the worktop just out of reach. Immeadiatelt they both stand up and try to reach it with their paws . Mark the unit with a dry marker pen and jod done . Takes 10 seconds max and they enjoy it.

I know it isnt completely correct because they are not "flat out" but standing at a small angle but it is consistant and very easy to do.

Anyway for the record nero made 31"/79cm silver made just under 33"/82 cm that is 3 days short of 4 months old weights are 2.6kg and 3.2kg