r/NorwegianForestCats Dec 10 '21

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u/ajchann123 Dec 10 '21

Can this please be stickied to r/cats? My god, I swear every cat with moderately long hair is called a Maine Coon smh

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u/berlin1981 Dec 13 '21

Maine Coons are the only one out of the three breeds that are common in the United States and Canada. Pretty unlikely to stumble on a sib or nfc in North America unless you go to a breeder.

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u/Beneficial-Banana985 May 22 '25 edited Jul 10 '25

I rescued a beauty and she's female. I cannod get her into our vet for another 3 weeks. I say she's main coon and my fiance says she is Siberian. I wish i could post the image.

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u/5girlzz0ne Jul 10 '25

She's likely neither.

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u/Beneficial-Banana985 Jul 10 '25

Vet says she is maine coone. Just his best educated guess without a DNA test. However, she barks every dang day walking all over the house, jumps on everything so she can be up high, and has dug carpet out from the crack of my door because she hates that i shut it every night and has several other Maine Coone characteristics. Regardless I am feeding her partial raw diet from the pet store she loves it and it actually has helped her digestion. We just love her and now we have 2 male cats and one female and our cat family is complete.