Thread: Adopting 2 6 year old Maine Coons

Its mainly the female who does and it is limited to her back. Roughly half way down her back to the base of her tail. He only has a couple of rough feeling patches in a similar area.

Originally Posted by Zeldamum

Its mainly the female who does and it is limited to her back. Roughly half way down her back to the base of her tail. He only has a couple of rough feeling patches in a similar area.

Could also be stress related , if there were health problems in the household & distress at having to part with the furries they are sensitive enough to pick up on it so will be interesting to see once they settle down if it disappears,lets hope so.......
Lovely photo of him in the sink & one of my favourite colours too,picture of girl now please.....xxx

Not a very good picture of the girl I am afraid, but I don't want to stress them out too much at the moment.

The skin problem could be stress as you say, only time will tell. I wont be changing their food in the short term until they have fully settled in which could take a month or more.

The ginger boy we were told didn't like too many cuddles, but he seems to have really taken to my daughter can climbs on her lap and snoozes quite happily. The girl is purring alot (could be trying to de-stress herself) hasn't wanted as many cuddles. Very early days yet.

We have started scent transfer now so hopefully we can let them out of the bathroom by the middle of next week without too many problems. Having 5 other cats we need to be careful.

the girl looks so much like my Neevie it's spooky! :-) good luck with all that, hope they settle OK soon - by the way what are their names?

Their colouring is very similar Alekto.

They are called Cloud and Floyd

Me thinks Cloud & Floyd have fallen on their paws & if as you say the boy has taken to your daughter like that it makes you think they were maybe loved but not accepted into their previous home.... don't be offended girls are more independant than boys & do not accept cuddles quite so quickly but bet it will come,please keep us updated,makes me want to cry.... makes me think even more that skin is stress related......xxxx

I think they were very much loved, but because their owner became very allergic to them she couldn't spend time with them. He husband had to see to the cats and they had to be kept in a separate room. The owner had been hospitalized due to severe asthma attacks which got worse over the last year or so.

I now have to be patient and not rush them meeting my own 5 cats and end up stressing them all out more than necessary.

Originally Posted by Zeldamum

I think they were very much loved, but because their owner became very allergic to them she couldn't spend time with them. He husband had to see to the cats and they had to be kept in a separate room. The owner had been hospitalized due to severe asthma attacks which got worse over the last year or so.

I now have to be patient and not rush them meeting my own 5 cats and end up stressing them all out more than necessary.

I think you might be very surprised how quickly they would accept the others, MC's are mostly very sociable..... our first one was an adult & had never seen a dog but she came in we let her out of the basket & by that evening she was curled up with them both,was also warned that she didn't accept other cats & that is why they needed to rehome as she was an ex breeeding queen well she went on to accept five others & was the nan & mentor.....
It is a shame about the owner being allergic strange thing is most people who are allergic to cats are fine with MC's because of their coat texture,the son of my friend opposite could barely walk past a cat without having trouble but lived with three MC's, this is all tying in more & more with the other being sress related,they are such sociable animals & to be shut out of the way of mum would freak them out so it is great that they can now be loved again as they deserve......xxx

I agree I think the MC's will accept my resident cats very well, but its the other way round I am worried about.

One was hissing at the bathroom door last night and that's without being able to see the MC's.

Going to swap beds around later so hopefully the resident cats will get used to the MC's smell quicker.