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Originally Posted by cashman
You two will have the P.C. Brigade on yer case,if yeh aint careful.  |
Ha ha Cashy I had thought of that possibility before posting and nearly looked it up but then thought why bother. However I have now googled it just out of interest and here goes with the origin of the name:
The name 'Maine' comes form the North eastern American State where the breed is thought to have originated. The 'Coon' bit is a little more difficult. The original cats tended to be brown tabbies, with very dark back and a long flowing tail, rather like a raccoon, and long ago,people thought that they must have evolved from matings between domestic cats and raccoons. Of course we now know that this is genetically impossible, but this may have been where the name came from.
But the Maine Coon's pride and joy is his tail. In fact he is often referred to as 'the tail with the cat on the end'. The tail must be at least as long as the body and is especially long so that the cat can wrap it around its body rather like a blanket for extra insulation.
What is a Maine Coon