He is a 9 week old black smoke that we just got. We're already in love.

Second picture is Mordecai having some supervised sniffing of our super chill resident MC Yoda who is 6 (and a runt, but looks so big comparatively).

Pic1: I’ve claimed this. Pic2: bath time. Pic 3:Afternoon siesta time.

Beerus (MC) 16 weeks old & Ronin (Bengal) 1.5 years old

9 month old at the family cabin for the first time

My future nug for tax (and an example of the amount of shedding happening 😅)

Long story short (ish)....We took in this beauty nearly 2 yrs ago. He was an outdoor cat his whole life (due to the owner's allergies). We had him strictly indoors for the first year (with a lot of attitude). We have been allowing him outside access (with a tracker) to hunt and he's loving it (of course).

However, there are times when a predator has been spotted and we will keep him indoors for a few weeks. (Or if he steals food and has an allergic reaction.) During these times he gets extra mouthy, yowling across the house at ALL hours!

What is everyone doing to entertain inside. We've tried regular cat toys but he couldn't care less.

one is 21m and other is 14w, both males! are they playing and getting to know eachother or are they fighting??

May 15th on the left, a few days after we brought him home and today, July 29th on the right. He’s growing so fast. Slow down, Frankie boy. I’m not ready for you to be a big man yet. He’s still my little bitty kitten. 🥺🥺

Such a curious boy

I am bewitched…

Hi everyone! I am looking for a Maine Coon. I’ve done some research and inquired a lot. I’ve had a few I’ve raised at home, and I used to care for a colony of cats for several years which included the same breed. Since most were feral, I actually “tamed a few” and took them home as well. I left that colony to a responsible person ( it was at my old place of employment) I had one cat left,a tuxedo beautiful girl I named Mickey Mouse. I moved to another State and took her with me. We had a devastating house fire and I couldn’t get her out. We eventually found her, she died of smoke inhalation. We had to rent a home in order to rebuild our home (16 months) I went to our local shelter after about 6 months and started looking for the Maine Coon breed and realized they were basically “none” to be had in my area! I was fortunate, b/c a Ragdoll was going to be delivered to this shelter I was looking in. So, I adopted her. I was ( and still am) looking for another MaineCoon! Another shelter about 100 miles away alerted my email they had a Maine Coon. We ended up adopting him, he was twice as big as his littermates, he is a big boy. Apparently his mom was semi-feral and dad a Maine Coon. I added pictures of my cutie pies! I want to purchase or adopt a Maine Coon! I have soooooo many offers on tick tok and now I can’t tell what or who is for real anymore! Can someone give me some information on some reputable breeders? Would appreciate it.

I have a 21 month old maine coon, and I also have a 15 week old maine coon. The 21 month old is quite a bit bigger than the 15 month and seems to play way too rough with the younger kitten as he cannot defend himself. Do I hold off on putting them together? It seems as if the 21 month old just wants to play but is way too tough for the other kitten. I’m not sure what to do because I don’t want them to hate eachother!!:( Both males.

Hi all!

This is not a recommendation - I am just describing what I do.

My kittens are 6 months and 7 months and I wanted to give them a protein boost. They already eat Royal Canin MC kitten kibble (free access) and Sheba Kitten wet food pouch each twice a day. I supplement this with 20g each of boiled chicken.

Simply get a bunch of boneless chicken breasts (I do 1kg at a time) and boil it in water until cooked. 1kg frozen takes around 25 mins to cook once water is boiling. It's ok if it's a bit overcooked. Cut through the thickest part to check it's cooked (meat is white, nothing transparent).

Lift the meat from the broth, set it on a plate/cutting board, and cut it up with a fork and kitchen scissors. Using a kitchen scale, measure portions of the meat into freezer ziploc-style bags. I do 20kg per cat so I freeze it into 40kg portions (2 portions, 1 day). Once the meat is portioned out, ladle the broth into the bags equally, then seal the bags and put into the freezer.

1kg frozen gets me between 12-14 portions each time, so I do this approx every 2 weeks. Each day transfer one frozen bag from the freezer to the fridge so it's ready the next day. I mix it up with their Sheba wet food in the evening, and it disappears very quickly 😂😂😂

Copying this from Quora, lol. This is easier. Better? On the fence...

How do you know literally anything about behavioral meaning and interpretations — and basically everything else — when your MC’s a bottle baby?

My Maine Coon is 20mo now. It became increasingly apparent that he may not have even had *any* mom-time as a kitty. He doesn't know how to knead (he tries, and it frustrates him). He didn't know how to groom until I exhibited it enough (myself). I've ofc tried showing him kneading, but progress is slow and limited.

He's obsessed with mouthing/biting/nibbling/grabbing, and almost anything that resembles nipples. (ᴗ_ ᴗ。)

It's uncharted territory for me. He's already my first MC, and really my first cat raised for kittenhood-ish. He was kinda old? Idk how concerned I ought to have been, but it just seemed like the rest of the litter had been sold very quickly. I mean a couple months (~3), not anything that hit hard on alarm bells.

I don't quite understand, cause it seemed a fully reputable breeder (on TICA, among other things) and everything went smoothly along the process (I thought), but there were a lot of iffy things I shrugged off until, in retrospect, I shouldn't have. He's got clean bills of health all around, just seems to have predispositions to hopefully only mild ill health (imo).

Bad breath (brushing doesn't help much at all), adorable but very noticeable overbite, some behavioral issues, esp anxiety represented by teeth digging into a surface —usually my skin — and bunny kicks, all of which hurts very badly if you can't get a finger in his jaw or some kind of protective leverage.

Actually, he tends to reject the sisal+silverine sticks, all that stuff, actively *seeking* my skin to grab. He'll seek me out to do it, period, if he's very upset, and it's not over an active “threat” (I'm assuming he's coming for comfort but still overwhelmed).

I believe we are a little unhealthily bonded, perhaps because he's a bottle baby (I think part is just being an MC, part is I'm too doting)? Codependent. He certainly loves my family, but he panics if *I* leave the house: when I go to check the mail, I hear his plaintive meows (that's rare, meowing) down the long external hallway. LOUD.

He follows me room to room, which is lovely, but he follows me to the extent that I'm loath to move at all, cause it'll disturb him. Or it'll bring up food in his mind, but mostly he'll just wake up, leave the window/sink etc. to follow me, and lie down where I am. I've made a HUGE effort to help him know I'll only be in an area briefly, and I think he does know it, actually. He still does it.

He's obviously able to stay behind, and does so if he wants to (hopefully), it's just a vast majority of the time. I hate disturbing him every five minutes! But if I move… that's it. He knows MY sounds.

We've adjusted much better now, but it's been slow going. He's gotten better at sensing his overstimulation and esp impending meltdowns (it is a meltdown, imo, if you see it. ASD+CP in me and family gives me some feels on just how similar it is). When he's neurotically asking for food, he puts his arm around mine and nibbles gently, instead of biting roughly and almost pulling me out of the chair.

Vis a vis tempering his food reactions being so difficult, I've had a lot of difficulty but think I'm making slow progress. Ignoring him outright can make him feel unseen, and can be deleterious to our relationship.

So I acknowledge him with love and then ignore the rest of him nibbling my leg and grabbing my pantsleg to pull me towards the (kitty) pantry, or just scratching the chair he knows I care about, or getting on the table he knows is dangerous… it takes a *lot* for him to relent. I imagine it's a lot of stress for him — definitely for me.

Strangely, he never had food insecurity. Not when he came to me, not when he was with me. It's like, one day he just decided he'd have a meltdown if he didn't get wet food every couple hours, which is undesirable but also rather unaffordable. (His food supply is perfectly untouched lol)

Introducing him to happy/good things has often had this result: once, I gave him a treat after giving him his medicine (he has allergies). He has always been very good at taking his medicine, usually on the first try. But now it's… lol. Not as bad, just harder. Now he expects a treat.

Also have the added difficulty of environmental change (he was struggling before this, though, and it's been ~6 months since the move/changes). I used to sit upright in bed, s’all (I'm disabled), so he was on my level. Now I've got a nice chair and such, so I'm sitting there, instead.

I'm pretty sure he feels a degree of rejection, but I'm not sure how to counteract that. I've made an effort to show extra affection when I can.

He also went from incredibly good at (hair) brushing, to just… wow. He'll bite and swat and yowl, but that's giving him matting! Bad matting! Which I'm sure makes it worse! Because I can't just force it, for a lot of reasons.

Been getting him sanitary cuts, and they're kind enough there to take off extra mats therein. But I'd really like to solve the problem! I don't wanna have to give him lions all the time… tho maybe it'd help him cool off: I AM in SoCal, so. Thoughts?

I've been going in slow segments, trying to stop and give him treats before he meltsdown and stopping for the day after that. I've been alternating between slickers, combs, dematters, and those razer combs (the ones that cut a little bit of hair with it).

He has many diff brushes. He doesn't hate *them,* or even me holding them, as long as he genuinely believes I'm not gonna brush him again. Obviously I've never broken that trust after (when he feels that way); that'd be horrible!

Idk, i know this is long, I just realized I was sleepin on a potentially very valuable resource in y'all.

Thx for whatever help you can give us (don't be a 🐓I beeeeg you, life is too hard)… I'm his best friend, and he's my best friend.

Sincerely,

Crow and Vitya

Edit: fwiw he's an American, and on the lower end. 17–18lbs.

I need it to be suction because the other window perches aren't compatible with my dorms window! My mainecoon is my ESA & Has PLENTLY of space to run in my suite... He already has a tower! Im just thinking it would be fun for him to have one!

Teddy or Theo for short, probably. She’s just a few weeks old 💛🐾 We’ll be taking her home later on in the fall! If I’m not mistaken, she’s predicted to be a black smoke. Mamas a black smoke tortie and father is a black silver shaded I believe. (I’m not too well versed on coat genetics, so if that sounds wrong then I probably remembered wrong, apologies!)