Thread: Does your Maine Coon eat with his paw?

I have never seen a cat do this before, my red MC, Merlin likes to eat with his paw, out of his paw. I took a video of it

the purring you hear in the back ground is Louie, he has the loudest purr and never stops, the vet has to pinch him, this makes him stop purring long enough a few seconds, just long enough to be able to hear his heart. You see a glimpse of Louie at the end of this video

Lot of MCC eat with their paws, that's one of the reason the Raccoon cross got started.

Oh, I really hope your not trying to pull my leg on that old legend that the Maine Coon is a cross between a raccoon and a cat. Puuuleeeeeze don't. LOL

Originally Posted by deb's_boys

Oh, I really hope your not trying to pull my leg on that old legend that the Maine Coon is a cross between a raccoon and a cat. Puuuleeeeeze don't. LOL

No, but people saw the cats with a big striped tail eating with it paws and started the raccoon stories

Originally Posted by candes

Loved the video!!!! And I noticed that he was eating leisurely. Which is when my babes seem to do it the most. When hungry, they just bury their faces in their food dish and inhale. Sasha is picking up with it a bit here and there. The older MC's seem to do it the most. The youngins are too busy hoovering their food.

Funny you mentioned the purring all the time even at the docs. My Sasha does that too.

Ok here goes....

LOL that's so cute, Merlin won't do this with wet food though, his paws are so furry that I think the wet would mat up his fur between his toes. I can't put a bowl of water down though he thinks it's his own personal swimming pool and splashes all the water out. I use a cat fountain for my boys.

All three of my boys eat with their paws, then again they have their dinner on plates on the coffee table .......

Kota and Blue eat with their hands (er, paws) too (and Blue is not MC)! They could cause so much more trouble if they had opposable thumbs!

All mine eat with their paws and all drink with their paws...

The man who came yesterday to pick up Zeus watching in a amazement, when I gave Zeus a couple of small piece of chicken, and he put his paw in the bowl, hooked them up and ate them..

He said his own coon, which he sadly lost had never done it... I think Zeus is going to be the party piece for guests lol

Hector does not he prefers to use his paw to 'swat' daddy's helicopter out of the sky. You should hear the 'delicate' footsteps when it's turned on!! Roxy does normally when she is trying to share my takeaway she loves nan bread and I have the curry pawprint to prove it on a pair of jeans!!

Two of ours do. Our red boy Sunshine is the funniest though - he lounges on the floor and drags the bowl to him! He lies at the water bowl too!