Thread: What made you choose a Maine Coon?

Delighted to oblige!

Hi Wivelspiker, and welcome!
All your Coonies are scrumptious, but I am partial to black smokes. Yours is

I was about 2yrs old when my older brother found a stray moggie cat. Since then, I was never without a moggie cat, that is until I got married. Dh hated cats and wanted a dog. We brought home a purebred Sheltie puppy Angel. For the next 2 yrs DH & I talked about getting a friend to keep Angel company while we were at work. To my delight DH agreed the friend would be a kitten. We searched every shelter, pet store, and home. DH wanted a kitten that didn't look ordinary. Of course I felt every kitten I met was special and I feel in love with each. Finally one pet shop had him. He was a beautiful gray boy sitting all by himself in a huge cage in the center of the store. The owner told us he was half Maine Coon. We adopted Storm and had a great 19.5 years with him. Storm loved Angel and they got along great. Storm morned the passing of Angel and looked for her for days. We loved Storm's Maine Coon traits and his 20lb size. When Storm passed this in April, the search began for another half-Maine Coon. I spotted one. DH didn't like the looks of him and DH mentioned the cost of adopting this moggie from the shelter. He thought for the price we should get a purebred MC. I began my search for a local breeder. DH balked about the price of a purebred but I mentioned he got his purebred dog. So a purebred Maine Coon would be our next kitten. We found a breeder and adopted Whiskey. We just love every bit of his MC behaviors. Now I'm working on getting Whiskey a MC friend, as everyone knows, you can't just have one.

Originally Posted by Wivelspiker

Delighted to oblige!

Luv'em!

What is the white ones' name? She is beautiful. Max is handsome, I am partial to brown tabbies and Sophie is beautiful too.
Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for this - you've made me feel very welcome to a great site!

I can see why you like brown tabbies - yours are absolutely gorgeous. My white girl is called Poppy.

My husband actually choose her. I knew nothing about cats, I had never had one, I had always had dogs...big dogs. After loosing my 5 yr old pitbull to a brain tumor I was heart broken and didn't want another pet...ever. Of course that didn't last, if your an animal person you know you can't llive without one. We decided to get a cat because we were giving up our house and going to an apartment. Hubby chose a Maine Conn because they have such huge personalities and are so interactive with their people. Missing having a dog, he thought I would bond with her better. I did! She follows me everywhere talking away to me and I've even tought her tricks. It was a good choice for sure!

When I met my hubby he had an 8 month old kitten named Tough Guy. He was a short hair orange & white tabby cat, followed us all over the house, came when we called him and had to sit between us and touching each of us. Tuffy was also very vocal and talked to us a lot. He was a big cat, 14 lbs at his largest, a very long and lean cat. He was very dog-like and walked hubby to the door in the morning and greeted him at night. When we lost him at 12 years of age we couldn't bear the thought of getting another cat. It took us 6 years to even consider it, but when we did we wanted a large cat and someone mentioned to me about the Maine Coon breed and I started researching and the similarities were eerily similar to the personality of Tough Guy.

I started looking around for breeders and found many to be so expensive and since we decided on getting two, so they could keep each other company, $800 - $1,200 was very pricey and a lot of stipulations attached. I came across an advertisement of some kittens available from a breeder who did this just for the love of the breed and we paid her a visit. She wanted only $400 each and they came with first shots and registered. As we entered a 5 week old, red kitten came up to hubby while the others ran away, he stepped on his foot and bit his toe. LOL.... DH picked him up and sat him on his shoulder and there he stayed... he was picked or he picked us.... then I saw the white one and he was a little standoffish but I loved his look. I grew up with a white, deaf Persian and he was a very independent cat and memories came flooding back. These were our new little boys to come home with us when they turned 8 weeks. They have been a blessing in our lives and we are loving the total experience.

Here's the first pic of Merlin



and first pic of Louie

We lost our beautiful tortie moggy on valentines day,after searching for a new kitten we came across another tortie,very strange had these huge ears,was very intrigued,couldn't resist a closer look,3 years later,love breeding and showing these wonderful,lovable,intelligent,playfull,inquisitive ,soulmates,what more can you say,love em soo much.

one and a half year ago we had two "normal" cats. The were both old 16 years and after the male cat died in early August 2010 we first said we do not want a new cat... one week later we went to the shelter and we saw Caruso.
Carsu is a Maine Coon mix and he was found in a settlement straying around. People living there catched him and brought him to the shelter, where he was a half year until we took him home.
Shortly after our old female cate died and we looked around and found the norwegien cat Finchen. But Finny is more a cat doing her own biz and Caruso needs a friend.
So we looked around again and found our two Maine Coon Daffy and Idaho.
Both were just castraded, poor guys , and since Daffy was at my side the whole time Idaho was on the lap of my husband. Well there was no discussion we took both. Our house is big enough for four cats.
It was a little bit of magic with this cats. They are both totally different. Daffy is more quit whereas Idy is our clown, jumping around and want to have fun.
We fall totally in love with this breed