Posted on 01/24/2016 1:47:12 AM PST by Daffynition
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Spock the cat is suffering from a case of mistaken identity.
Spock’s owner wants her neighbors to know that he really is just a lovable and mischievous domestic cat, and not a bobcat or other wild animal.
Collen Pizarev told the San Jose Mercury News that a neighbor accused her of harboring a bobcat, after seeing her 27-pound, 46-inch Maine Coon peering out the window.
Another neighbor mistook the massive cat for a lynx.
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I also have a hefty Main Coon male cat....in the 25-pound range, and if you saw him from a hundred feet away...you’d say he was a Bobcat. He stays limited to the house, the balcony and the window.
Maine Coon cats are wonderful. My mom had a beautiful female, who didn’t come *near* that weight. She was large but not that large!
Maine Coons have the habit of sniffing out every single item brought into a house. If they take a fancy to it...they remove it from view (like your keychain attached to a rabbit’s foot or a sunglass container). Once they stand on the balcony, you can observe them making the rounds and sniffing in all directions.
This would also be the last cat on Earth that you’d want to drag the cat travel container out for a trip to the vet. This breed can tear you up with the claws...which they normally never show you for 99-percent of the time (being overly friendly). Once that cat container is brought out...the claws come out in anticipation of the trip.
I’d say that’s the missing Lynx.
So my cat is Maine Coon, how about that! She looks just like that in face and markings and she is immense! Cool!
Congrats on having such a nice looking cat. Awesome.
I almost hit something that looked like your pic on the right with my car on a remote highway in Colorado. It was very sturdily built, the size of a very large dog but more squat, and agile. I braked, it saw me, and effortlessly ran up a steep roadcut that was probably ten feet or more high like it wasn’t even there. For a few brief seconds I was terrified staring this thing down, not knowing how it would react.
I also have a 25 lb Maine Coon. He is sweet & such a big baby. People have been scared of him but I reassure them that he is perfectly harmless. He is so beautiful & has the biggest eyes that I’ve ever seen on a cat.
Maine Coons are a treasure.
My nephew has a big black cat that is somewhere around that weight and size, but it’s not a coon cat.
Yep, I had one and that is how he was, my vet was terrified of him. Hated to see us coming. LOL!
It is unbelievable....364 days a year that a cat will do everything possible to show you their friendly nature and never harm you with their claws. Then vet day comes up...then you discover that claws of a serious nature and built as a killing machine. I had to develop a four-step plan for each single vet-day episode to avoid serious injury.
To the untrained eye it’s easy to see why this cat might be mistaken for a bobcat. I live near DFW in a community that not too many years ago was ranch land. And, bobcats and coyotes are routinely spotted in our community. Naturally, with all the nice green lawns, shrubs, etc, little tender, juicy bunnies abound around here, squirrels too. And, they’re like candy for these predators. That being said though, I enjoy having the wildlife in our community. Folks just have to remember to not leave Little Fluffy out at night, lol!
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