Thread: Maine Coon Kitten?

Lol yes they've been playing all evening. The photos showing the hair between her toes were in the previous set of photos I posted. She has tuffs of hair there too. Ginger is a doll btw :-)

Jphanton00, awww thanks! We like her most of the time ;) I am glad to hear your furries are getting along so well! They are so cute when they play with each other. I am seriously thinking of getting another MC. Ginger needs a cat pal to cuddle with. Being a only cat can be tuff in a 2 dog household. I think if we had just one dog, she would have someone to cuddle with beside me and the OH. She has taken to him since he is home from work recovering from hip surgery.

ah sorry - I responded to this thread Jphanton, but I think I must have forgottent to press "post"
large ears, intelligent eyes, a little bit of tuft between the toes but not a lot, and in one picture the tail looks really long, in the other it looks really short so hard to tell. So, because I can't tell about the tail, and because it looks so far like there is only a bit of turft between the toes, I'm going to say "mixed" now. :-) but she has the SAME expression as Neevie - I don't know how to explain it, it's more MC, less cat...

Donnad-I wish your husband a speedy recovery! Whomever said that cats are independent didn't know what they were talking about lol. They are extremely social and its been my experience that they need a friend and by friend I mean an appropriate friend like another cat of similar age and size. For years I had a dog and a cat and while they were companions, they couldn't play together. And Sebastian and my little dog, Bailey, played for a while until Sebastian outgrew him. Sebastian would start getting rough and scare Bailey and he'd growl and then scare Sebastian. So they no longer play. And my older cat, Angel, won't play with any of them so its like having 3 only children. That's why I got this kitten, Mishka. Granted she's a little more playful than Sebastian is, but they've been playing and I think it will be a great relationship.

Alekto-Mishka has tuffs between her toes and on her pads. When I pull this thread up on my computer, the pics show the hair quite nicely; however, when I pull the thread up on my phone its difficult to see because her feet are so dark. Her tail is very long too. She curls it up when she walks sometimes its so long. And when she crouches and starts to run it flows behind her. Its really quite pretty. The only MC trait she's missing its the point of hair at the tip of her eyes although if I look in the light I do see hair there, but thin and light. I almost wish they hadn't spayed her, because I would pay to do the genetic testing to see if she was pure MC. I'm convinced she is, but at this point does it really matter? I mean she's spayed so it would be for the sake of knowledge and nothing more.

I appreciate all the input and advice and kind words! You guys are great! I'm on a fish forum and the people on there aren't near as nice as you guys are.

P.S. Do MC's lay weird? I ask because I've noticed Mishka laying on her belly with her legs spread and I've never seen a cat do that before.

exactly - at this point she's a lovely baby, if she is MC it's just something you can say when you explain how lovely she is ;-) I'm quite proud to be able to say "yeah, she's beautiful, and she's naughty, and she's all that, and she's a maine coon don't you know...." heehee
hehe mine doesn't lay like this - but my mum's cat (not MC) used to, when it was hot especially, seems to be more cooling to the underbelly.... :-)
Neevie, when she lays down, more or less throws her backside on the floor first. All the cats I've known in the past would be very careful to be quiet, slow, try to make as less noise as possible.... this one looks like she's say "well, since you're not taking care of me, I'll just lay there then! boom! teach ya a lesson, human slave!" - Not sure if that's a MC thing either, or a Pirate thing...