Is Shannon a Maine Coon? I love those cats. (Of course, I just love cats.)
We had one when I was a kid who was at least part Maine Coon. She lived to be 20. She was a delight and was quite chatty. She didn’t like baths, though. She got into the crawl space in our house while my dad was working on something and got insulation on her. My mom gave her a bath to be on the safe side. I wasn’t home for this (or I would have been the designated bath-giver), but I was told she yowled mightily all the way through it.
Shannon is a domestic shorthair.
I was going to have a Maine Coon but he didn’t like me, so we parted ways.