Thread: Do Maine Coon cats have a habit of lying across doorways?

Originally Posted by Fozzie

This is a tempting thought . . . . . .
(especially after I've just hoovered every stair all over with the special attachment to remove every evidence of coonie hair for christmas)

And if you have a dark brown carpet like I have, the coonie hair from Kenny (red silver tabby) is all over it again within an hour!

Originally Posted by Fozzie

This is a tempting thought . . . . . .
(especially after I've just hoovered every stair all over with the special attachment to remove every evidence of coonie hair for christmas)

I'm going to get grey carpets all through lol!!!

My two are known as trip and hazard, yep they love the stairs!! They are open ones in the living room and they inhabit the 'warm' ones in winter they know the best spot for the heat rising and in summer the ones that get the full benefit of the celing fan!!! It's funny when we have visitors that don't really know about them when they see the two tails hanging down

I also warn all visitors that if they are in a tormenting mood to watch out for the paw swiping through the stair treads!!!

JanieB,

I can certainly imagine how negotiating stairs with a cat on each one would be extremly difficult. We find this when only one tread is being occupied!

Originally Posted by arthurwhitewhisker

One of ours just lies in the middle of the doorways, in the middle of the floor, well anywhere in the way really. Our girl prefers to lie on the stairs so if you get up at night you HAVE to put the light on so you dont tread on her, the other prefers the top of the laundry basket, the back of the sofa or a lap, but the thing I have learnt is coonies are not cats, they are a life form all of their own :o)

Quite true about them being their own life form, I quite agree Arthur.

Well that certainly would be an advantage Jackie, and I didn't know that. A bungalow at times would be very appealing, not just because of the cats as I've a damaged knee which is affected by stair climbing x

Originally Posted by arthurwhitewhisker

but the thing I have learnt is coonies are not cats, they are a life form all of their own :o)

54 years old, hundreds of cats throughout my lifetime, and this quote says it all about coonies. Have my first coonie now and he is nothing like a "real" cat. And, yes, he lays in the middle of the doorway.....LOL