Different shapes change the taste at all?

[cinda]

Sorry to hear about your kitty. If you go to my blog here you will see that I too just lost my Maine coon cat of 13 years. I looked at cats too but gg said take you time or your end up with something that really doesn't fit just right for you. So I stopped looking and just keep crying over it I guess I am not ready. Unlike you for me he was low maintenance so there no doubt that I want the same breed. He followed be around like a dog. The worst times are coming home from work and him not being there to greet me. I been here since 2005 and honestly I do not think that question was ever asked so not to hijack the tread totally good question.

[joetattoo]

I really am terribly sorry for your loss. They truly are a special breed. Even after a year, I come home and expect to see him stretched out on the bed. They can have replacements, but they can never be replaced. When you're ready, you'll get another, and I expect many pictures!
Best regards
Joe

[CoventryCat86]

Did someone say "Maine Coon?"

Our all white Maine Coon died three years ago. We immediately replaced her with these three, LOL!:



The one on the left is Leonardo, he's deaf. The one in the middle is Lilyanna with the blue eyes, they are brother and sister born on my wife's birthday. The one on the right is their "3/4" sister as we say (same father, and their mothers were sisters) her name is Phillippa, born on my wife's late father's birthday. His name was Phil.

[badwhale]

That's a great picture!

[cinda]

Awwwwwwwwwww very pretty. But we all know you have great taste!

[Roham]

That's a crazy perfect photo CC! Must be photo shopped!!! Great looking cats.


I must say I'm done for awhile after my two 20 year old cats hit the hay....

[ggiese]

Here's Gizmo. I miss this little bugger. I'm not a huge cat person(read below for my reasons why) - but this little guy was exceptional.

We (not me, but those close to me) had to fill a void when Gizmo died an untimely death. Gizmo was a real sweetheart - and I greatly missed him. He was a very loving and wonderful cat. I'm of the mind you just can't replace one cat with another - it's impossible to recreate the personality. Unfortunately for me ('cause I apparently was the only one who saw it coming) it took three cats to figure out we could not replace Gizmo.

Cat 1 - Elizabeth ("Lizzie"). She's "special"... And I'm being kind... Lizzie was the offspring of a feral cat - adopted by a teenager who thought she was "cute". When the girl could no longer care for her (I believe it took about a week to realize it), my daughter took her in. Lizzie was initially nice and sweet - but is now completely neurotic... She does not like anyone except my wife - and has developed some very bizarre ritual of showing up in the bedroom at about 3 a.m. - meowing loudly and mumbling something that sounds like obscenities. She dances on my sleeping wife... Quite a strange sight.. And - she just loves to pee on just about everything that's not hung up or in a drawer (jackets, beds, clothes, towels... You name it). ...and if you leave the drawer open - it's fair game...). Every day it hear someone cursing Lizzie's name. And she absolutely LOVES to claw the furniture.

Cat 2 - when Lizzie started to slip into her bi-polar condition - my daughter adopted Faye from a local shelter. Faye is good, but not great. She's more friendly than Lizzie, but only likes people to pet her on her terms. And if you pet her too much, she will let you know by sinking teeth and digging in with her claws. And she has the most incredibly sharp nails (she, not unlike Lizzie, takes great pride in ripping apart the furniture). When I catch her digging her claws into the leather couch - I get the "....what?!? This is what cats do! Ain't it cute? Don't you just love me?!?" - and then she slowly saunters away...

Finally - Cat 3 - there's Roscoe. Roscoe was mommy's pick to replace Gizmo. He loves anyone and everyone - and he is fearless. I have to watch him like a hawk - he loves to explore everything. That sucker sees the dog go out - so apparently assumes he should go out too... He's a quiet one - sneaks around all the time. I'm scared to death to let him outside - the little shit is likely to explore himself right into a swift kick in his ass (he can be REALLY annoying). He had a love affair for a time with a stuffed tiger one of the grand kids had laying around. It was short lived because he ended up ripping the crap out of it (apparently he likes his sex rough, I guess). We tried hard to discourage the relationship, but you just know how teenagers are... He's since taken up dating two of my wife's blankets (he snatches them off the bed and drags them to the dark recesses of the hallway). It's a strange relationship - and absolutely grosses the wife out - but I think it's cute! I mean - c'mon - Roscoe was handpicked by momma - the least she can do is support her son's choices in soul mates...

So that's my eclectic crew. I'd love to take a picture of all three, but there ain't no way the three will ever hang out and look "cute". Ain't never gonna happen...

[CoventryCat86]

That's a crazy perfect photo CC! Must be photo shopped!!! Great looking cats.


I must say I'm done for awhile after my two 20 year old cats hit the hay....

Yeah, the only time in their lives they ever stayed still at the same time for more than two seconds while they were awake. I'm no photographer by any means, I just got real lucky.

I sent it to the breeder in Ohio where we got the cats from and she asked permission if she could use it on her website since she knows how just about impossible it is to get decent pictures of cats, LOL! If you click that link, the daddy of our three cats is the one at the bottom of the page who has one blue eye and one gold eye "Kitty-Up's Trevor of Muse Coons."