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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Well, somebody's a Family Guy fan.
Just stay away from Tacgnol.
Now about that cake...
That is about the size of my maine coon, and same coloring.
We named him Simba, he is a very laid back cat.
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!
PEW PEW PEW!
Is there a Maine Coon Ping list? If so, please add me!
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!
That's not a cat, it's an ottoman!
“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.
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.
That is one great big cat! A whole armload!
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).
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