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Your cat is so beautiful!!
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Is my kitty a Maine Coon?
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Some of you fail to realize that some PET quality MC's won't have ear tufts or toe tufts. Nothing wrong with the cat - just not show quality. I've seen MC's from breeders that lacked it and these are from champion bloodlines. So its very possible this is a MC.
Same thing for cornish rex. Out of all my rexes I bred I only had ONE that was a true pet quality - it had everything wrong - short ears, round face, short body and no waves BUT it was still a rex and went to a pet home with people who didn't care that it didn't look like a typical rex.
Genetics are funny - sometimes you wind up with all the negative traits in a cat instead of the quality ones.
Same thing for cornish rex. Out of all my rexes I bred I only had ONE that was a true pet quality - it had everything wrong - short ears, round face, short body and no waves BUT it was still a rex and went to a pet home with people who didn't care that it didn't look like a typical rex.
Genetics are funny - sometimes you wind up with all the negative traits in a cat instead of the quality ones.
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It still seems pretty unlikely that he's a pure-bred Maine Coon, since he wasn't sold as one. But could he possibly be a throwback, like having pure-bred Maine Coon grandparents? (I just learned about throwbacks in science today
) And then he would look so much like a Maine Coon.
By tufts on the ears, are they those little pointy bits of fur sticking off the top? Cierron doesn't have them, but his ears are pretty fluffy!!
By tufts on the ears, are they those little pointy bits of fur sticking off the top? Cierron doesn't have them, but his ears are pretty fluffy!!
