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

[martin_fierro]

[tnlibertarian]

the Maine coon's full name is Mymains Stewart Gilligan

Well, somebody's a Family Guy fan.

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[Slings and Arrows]

Just stay away from Tacgnol.

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Now about that cake...

[justsaynomore]

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

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

[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!

[martin_fierro]

Pew Pew Pew!

PEW PEW PEW!

[Grizzled Bear]

Maine Coon cat ping...

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

[boatbums]

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!

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How about Fat Cat?

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

[The Cajun]

Both Maine Coons my wife and I have owned are the Labrador retrievers of the cat world. Always friendly and laid back.

[jocon307]

“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.

[TheOldLady]

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.

[Sunshine Sister]

That is one great big cat! A whole armload!

[justiceseeker93]

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).