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Maine Coon from Reno named world's longest cat
gather.com ^ | October 20, 2010 09:46 AM EDT (Updated: October 20, 2010 10:54 AM EDT) | Emily Moulton

Posted on 10/20/2010 8:24:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A Maine Coon cat named Stewie is the new record holder for "world's longest cat," according to the Reno Gazette-Journal. His recent measurement from his nose to the tip of his tail bone put him at 48 and a half inches, a half inch longer than the original record holder. The cat's owner, Robin Hendrickson, says the Maine coon's full name is Mymains Stewart Gilligan.

According to Wikipedia, Maine coons really do hail from Maine, but there are other theories regarding their deeper origins. One such theory says that they are descended from Marie Antoinette's Turkish Angora cats, who bred with native North American shorter-haired breeds upon arrival.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cats; kittyping; mainecoon; mainecooncat; norwegianforestcat
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To: BenLurkin; Slings and Arrows; evets

41 posted on 10/20/2010 3:39:28 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: BenLurkin
the Maine coon's full name is Mymains Stewart Gilligan

Well, somebody's a Family Guy fan.

42 posted on 10/20/2010 3:44:18 PM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: BenLurkin

43 posted on 10/20/2010 3:51:43 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
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To: BenLurkin

44 posted on 10/20/2010 3:52:20 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
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To: BenLurkin

45 posted on 10/20/2010 3:52:50 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
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46 posted on 10/20/2010 3:53:22 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
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To: martin_fierro; Slings and Arrows

47 posted on 10/20/2010 3:56:58 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
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To: martin_fierro

Just stay away from Tacgnol.


48 posted on 10/20/2010 4:31:25 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Daffynition

Now about that cake...


49 posted on 10/20/2010 4:33:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: KarlInOhio

That is about the size of my maine coon, and same coloring.

We named him Simba, he is a very laid back cat.


50 posted on 10/20/2010 4:39:43 PM PDT by justsaynomore (We've got some altering and abolishing to do! - Herman Cain)
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To: justsaynomore

I meant to add - he just showed up at our door one day and loved all over us. We looked everywhere for his owners, called vets, placed posters. I cannot believe someone let such a beautiful sweet cat go!


51 posted on 10/20/2010 4:42:30 PM PDT by justsaynomore (We've got some altering and abolishing to do! - Herman Cain)
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To: BenLurkin

Pew Pew Pew!


PEW PEW PEW!

52 posted on 10/20/2010 4:54:51 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: TheSarce; The Bat Lady
Maine Coon cat ping...

Is there a Maine Coon Ping list? If so, please add me!

53 posted on 10/20/2010 6:47:09 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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To: BenLurkin
My kittehs' vet breeds and shows those big ‘uns. They are incredibly sweet and good thing, because they are huge.

She has several who actually live at the clinic and have jobs as greeters, calmness invokers, blood donors and, probably, watch kittehs - but anyone who knew them would only be afraid of being worked to death petting them. They DO love attention!

54 posted on 10/20/2010 6:53:44 PM PDT by boatbums (Just one of "THE OTHERS")
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To: Fresh Wind
How about Fat Cat?

That's not a cat, it's an ottoman!

55 posted on 10/20/2010 6:57:32 PM PDT by boatbums (Just one of "THE OTHERS")
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To: BenLurkin
Both Maine Coons my wife and I have owned are the Labrador retrievers of the cat world. Always friendly and laid back.
56 posted on 10/20/2010 6:58:08 PM PDT by The Cajun
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To: TheOldLady

“He’s a runt. A really nice runt.”

Our cat Flower was 1/2 Maine coon and 1/2 some other fuzzy thing. She too was very small, stayed almost kitten sized her whole long life (she lived to be 19). She was really just fuzz and bones.

But the funny thing was I saw her sibs years later and they were normal sized kittehs.

I still think she stayed small because she lived with my best, original cat, Normie. All the cats that lived with him stayed real small. We theorized that Normie stole their growth hormones, that was why he got so big.

But really he wasn’t abnormally large, but all the other kittehs stayed real small.


57 posted on 10/20/2010 9:20:55 PM PDT by jocon307 (Loser Merjerksi broke my tagline.)
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To: jocon307

Well, he wasn’t exactly small, just a runt for a Maine Coon, at 18 pounds. He’s quite thin now because he has CRF, but we have managed to put a pound back on him, and he’s about 10 pounds now.

He’s at least 15 years old, and Maine Coons are susceptible to CRF as they get older. Dr. Vet says that he may live for months if we watch him carefully, so we do.


58 posted on 10/21/2010 4:05:07 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: BenLurkin

That is one great big cat! A whole armload!


59 posted on 10/24/2010 8:24:09 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: Fresh Wind

Nothing funny about an obese cat. It’s pathetic that an owner, as that young lady in your posted photo (assuming she is the cat’s owner) would destroy her pet’s health by grossly overfeeding him (or her).


60 posted on 10/25/2010 3:15:55 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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