JTaylor

Does anyone have one as a pet? The farm down the road has some kittens for sale and I'm considering surprising the missus - a Bagpuss scampering around our pile would be nice, I think.

Trout

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Sounds fantastic

davyboy

Sounds like ghetto talk

Tidgy

lol, there cats so fine as pets, just be aware main coons can grow big, very big.

dont forget to budget for pet insurance, cat food, cat litter, vets bills (join a vets health care plan which include all vacinations etc and discount on other buills).

As far as food, cheap stuff is just that, so wouldn;t advise going for the like of go cat felix etc, we feed our pain in the **** toplife from asda, very good content food and works out about £1.20 a day. For a 4 kg cat you need 1 pack a day, coons have grown upto 12kg which will make a huge difference to the food bill

JTaylor

austinwrx

had a gf who had one.

fookin enormous pile of fur. that clad everything in fur it touched.

thick as ****.

a fortune in vets bills and special food.


didn't get it myself- waste of time money etc.

a car ran it over: it was too dense to understand the road and traffic.



rather have a normal heinz 59 cat if you really want a pet.

Tidgy

beign a bit of a cat lover now i should be birating you for saying that but i loled lol

JTaylor

I'm sorry to hear that. How did you find the cat?

Spoon

Annoyed.

I thought it was going to be a thread on Mike Tyson in his day.

wasbo

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Great cats, but are quite dim and could see why one would get knocked over, quite likely to fall asleep in the road, I would only have one as a house pet unless you are on a farm.
Pics of mine in this search

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...og&sa=N&tab=wi

dpb

What bloody use is a cat , i d just like to know

MicaDan

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We have one as a pet and I can only re-iterate what has already been said. Big and dim!! We have a baby gate between the living room and kitchen and we regularly come home to find him stuck between the bars...asleep!! He forgets that he hasn't fitted through the bars since he was a kitten (he is now five), and gets himself stuck. He never struggles, he just lays down and sleeps it off until we rescue him.

He also eats everything, and i mean EVERYTHING!!!

For the amusement factor, he can't be beaten.

stef_2010

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Well I always wondered what a rabbits eyeball looked like when it has been removed from the skull (as you do)

Just the other day my cat left one on the kitchen floor, pretty thoughtful of him I say

wasbo

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Forgot to say that about food, one of mine likes Asda pizza with jalapeños and the other has a thing for Singapore fried rice and all like prawn crackers and popadoms.
The boy likes to eat as many biscuits as he can and the sick them all back up in unusual places (on top of the fridge and the like).
Oh and Maine coons have a thing for water, ours like to paw all the water onto the floor before drinking or better still just sit in the bath drinking from the taps!!!

Bubba po

I prefer the Alabama Darkie, myself.

Trout

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Is that like a Nevada Ni***r?

Trout

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BTW - cats - really what is the point?


Dogs have owners, cats have butlers.

BLU

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Depends on the cat.
We have 3 and we're far from their butler. They show affection and bother with us as much as our two dogs do. Plus they don't need walking

rossyboy

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Our cat has done the rabbit eyeball on the kitchen floor aswell. Except the bottom half of the rabbit was nearby too.

craigyp

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We got a Bengal snow leopard and a Bengal leopard there absolutly nuts!!!! Hard as nails and really boystress there's never a dull moment with them in the house we was considering the above cats but they where to fluffy and big for me

MicaDan

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How funny, mine does the exact same thing with the water!!! I thought it was just my cat that was a complete nutbag!! the number of times i've walked into the kitchen and ended up with a wet sock!!

Matt_F

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this women engineer that use to work at my place has them and saw some pics and damn they grow big

she even had a website called Forest Coons http://www.forestcoons.com/

fatscoobfella1

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We have a Maine coon...

Great cats....Docile and loving.Brushing them can be a problem if you dont get them used to it when young.

He costs about a fiver a week to feed..

jono300

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To be honest not knowing a lot about cats thought these Maine coon,Bengal snow leopard and a Bengal leopard being mentioned were going to be scary looking things the size off a labrador etc, sorry but the one in the picture above looks like your normal everday cat, are they really big, if so how big ??!!

must admitt funny as a dog lover can honestly say there are very few dogs I am scared off but the thought off being attacked by a cat fills me with real fear !! have to look away when you see the vet programmes and the cat acting up on the vets table !!!!!!!

chrispy200+

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Google images Maine coon and there are some real big ones knocking about, hadn't realised what they were like though, wanted one for ages

fatscoobfella1

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They are big for a cat.....But only like a Jack Russell size at most..

Gotta say the cat is tougher than the dog!

dpb

Cheap marbles

jono300

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See what you mean !! not so much tall but certainly long for a cat !!

http://www.pictures-of-cats.org/imag...oon-cat-1s.jpg

dpb

Reminds me of a persian ??( long limbed and angular) cat we somehow got lumped with when i was 14 ?? this thing had attitude in lumps , quite amusing actually - i think it had a run in with a car cos it had a fearful limp we christened it Gollum as i remember

jasey

Casper



alongside a normal cat


They're very noisy - meoow if you move !

Watch some simon's cat - I'm sure Simon's cat is based on a Maine Coon.

He's just about 10 kg !