With pictures!
And her delighted companion, Scout.
Lucy is our female Maine Coon cat. Her brown tabby and white majesty will be two in February. She’s shown with Scout. Scout is our shelted adopted domestic shorthair. Together they weight nearly forty pounds.
We’re grateful they’re both very friendly.
Cool cats! 
Ooo, I’m thinking about a Maine Coon as my next cat. Any pros/cons? Your babies are beautiful!
Thank you.
The only thing unexpected I’ve noticed about Lucy is that she isn’t a lap cat. But she was pushing eighteen pounds at her last vet visit so that’s probably a good thing. The breeder told us she was the runt of the litter and wouldn’t get past ten or twelve. Unlike my shelter kitty she’s also friendlier to company. He runs and hides. She will deign to show up and get admired and even allow a little petting.
Ironically enough she was less expensive than my shelter kitty. There was a $100 adoption fee for Scout. Then over $600 in vet bills because the shelter didn’t do a particularly good job keeping the poor guy healthy. Lucy was $500 but we only had a $60 vet fee to get her checked out after we adopted her.
They’re beautiful! I hope they aren’t in the habit of crawling up on your tummy while you’re sleeping. You’d be a pancake! 
Who’s a cute kitty? Yes, you’re a cute kitty!
Ahem. Lovely cats.
Friendly, maybe, but from that imperious look on both faces, I’d say you are walking a narrow line.
“Biped! Biped, where are you? Come when I call! Now. About this excuse for cat food. What were you thinking when you purchased it? You know we simply will not tolerate bargain-basement swill such as this. You will do better next time, and keep in mind–we are very easy to please: just give us nothing but the very best.”
They’re gorgeous. I just hope they don’t notice the book of dog breeds on the shelf behind them, they might start thinking you’re going to bring one of those horrible creatures home or something. g
Maine Coon seems to be the only cat breed my alergies can tolerate. Just looking at the domestic shorthair makes my nose itch. Nice cats.
::kitty squee::
Gorgeous Kitties! Who wants a scritch behind the ears? Kitty babies do! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
You’re making me miss my beloved Maine Coon, whose name was Fessie. He was probably also part Angora (at least that’s what the vet guessed) so he was particularly shaggy. And not super smart. But sweet as the day is long and extremely friendly. He was SUCH a good cat.
Not a lap kitty, though - he’d sit next to you, but didn’t care for sitting ON.
AND he was fierce toward other cats.
Sorry for the hijack, happy kitties to you! Adorable pictures!
I had a Maine Coon for a few years, and she was the sweetest cat I’ve ever met - affectionate, pretty much trouble-free, and gorgeous to look at and stroke. She loved human company, and was happiest asleep on your lap - however, she didn’t like other cats, or children. How much of that was her breed, and how much was individual personality, I don’t know.
Incidentally, I paid £0 for her. She came from a shelter.
Imperious is right.
Then you find just the right spot just behind the ear or under the chin and you’ve got a gloriously purring kitten to play with.
I’m a total sucker for the Maine Coon breed ever since we got Pratchett. He’s huge, feisty, opinionated, funny, trainable and has enough personality for any ten cats and some left over for six or seven humans. He doesn’t get to go outside much, though, because he’s completely fearless and would try to bully a truck. He did find out how to climb the arborvitae tree and get up on the roof recently but he doesn’t know quite how to get down without someone getting the ladder out and going to rescue him. He’s two and a half years old and over twenty pounds, although we aren’t sure by just how much–plans are under way to take him to PetSmart for a weigh-in the next time the dogs go. This is now feasible since he got a new, non-breakaway collar–he can go on a leash without fear of getting loose. See, he has a harness as well, but he can get out of it if he’s sufficiently motivated and if we could clip the leash to the collar as well as the harness he’d be pretty secure. My son in law has a Maine Coon too, and Phoenix is a very cool cat as well–he’s my third favorite kitty.
Aww. Pratchett is a very handsome dude. I assume you named him after the author? My husband wanted to call Scout by that name but he scouted us out ever so gently so Scout he was and is.
Lucy is very much the home cat and has never tried to get out. The closest she got was up a pipe in the basement. We gave her bath after she came out all sooty and she hasn’t been there since.
Will Pratchett let you brush him? Lucy only cooperates if kitty treats are involved.
Yes he is named for the author–I don’t know what possessed us but it turned out to be a perfect name for him. He’s somewhat tolerant of the brush but doesn’t love it–luckily he’s very shorthaired for a MC so it doesn’t matter so much. He goes outside under supervision and will pretty much stay in the yard as long as someone’s watching him–take your eye off and he’s zoomin’ off like a shot, though! This is actually okay since Widget, the Border/Jack, learned how to herd by bringing Pratchett in from the wilds of the back yard. He runs faster than Pratchett does and brings him right back to the door quite handily, with Pratchett cussin’ and hissin’ all the way!
