Posted on 07/10/2012 11:45:25 PM PDT by skeama
My guess is a feral Maine Coon. Our Livingston (aka Fat Cat) is pushing 30 pounds because he’s, well, fat. But before he porked up, he was well north of 20 pounds. He’s a big boy. The stance looks more like a Maine Coon, I always thought bobcats were a bit rangier with longer legs.
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I have a torie alley cat I took in last January, who we’ve named Patch. She has probably lived on our property longer than we have; I remember seeing her in my back yard about a month after we moved into our house in June 2009. She was pretty fearful of us at first, but when I started putting out food (in the hopes of socializing a litter of kittens she’d had) she warmed up to us and eventually began living in our house.
She was pregnant at the time we took her in, and we decided to keep one of her kittens as well - a tortoiseshell tabby my wife named Monkey Face. The other three kittens have been adopted by friends.
Patch is very vocal, and she seems to have bonded pretty strongly with me. When she’s awake, she follows me all around the house, and I’m the only one allowed to touch her head.
“Coons all wear the “M”, do they not?”
This is a characteristic of tabby cats in general, not only Maine Coons.
Lovely girl! I have a dilute calico Coon mix myself...she’s a tiny bit thinner in the face but otherwise has the same build more or less.
That’s a felix vulgaris.
The easiest way to tell if the kitty is a Maine-Coon or a bobcat would be to pick it up and cuddle it.
If you survive, it’s a Maine-Coon.
Mark
Extreme, extreme cellular-level closeup.
I am not a great identifier of house cat breeds, such as Maine Coons, but I had a white, long haired cat that looked a lot like a Persian, when I was a teenager, that grew to 20 lbs if it was an ounce. He roamed the country side at will killing and eating all sorts of small game and finally met his match in our creek bed when he fought a raccoon to the death, they both died. We found the bodies lying by the creek, both of them torn up pretty badly.
After all these years I still miss that cat, he was also very loving when he decided to hang out at home.
Re: the Bobcat machine picture:
Cute, and predicted by me long before it was posted, in fact, before I posted. The only one that I didn't predict was the Moose eating Chupacabra - nice one by the way. But I had the Sasquach, Lockness and Bobcat machine called before I posted.
However, It looks like that yellow one in the background is "Just a cat' ... Heh. You can tell by its tail.
Yes, my ego is now engaged.
FYI: The black and white cat in the background of the picture is MY CAT - I pointed this out in the original post, which addresses all details except for the fact that there is, in none of the pictures out of the 16, a discernible domestic tail. It doesn't prove a negative, but all things taken together, this cat does not look like it has anything more than at most a 4" bob stump. If anyone posts anymore urban legend pictures I will accuse them also of having at most a 4" bob stump, and just as invisible in the presence of a female kitty in the evening. Hope I didn't offend the AM.
I know my black and white cat is there there. She provides scale. a few seconds before the shots, she was growling at the cat - they saw the headlights and both sat down suprised and stooned. the larger cat which I still deny is a coon, is 2.5 times her size. 30 seconds after I got the pictures my cat ran it off the property at high speed and more growling, which one would assume means it was domestic, except that my cat was also wild for the first 2 years of her life, raising a family, killing their food, protecting them from predators. So she doesn't take doodoo from other beasts.
I'll get the rest of the pics up -I realize it's unfair to refer to them while they are not up. May link to all and only post a few ... they're a half meg each, and don't want to be sucking too many bytes over the intratubes and through the FR servers, on the other hand, those pictures are nighttime, and don't want to lose what clarity there is by optimizing them.
Not a coon. I'm not saying it's definitely a wild species - I posted it because I was unsure, but not a coon. Facial structure is wrong. At this point I'm most behind Hetty's guess. There are mixed opinions out there about whether the twain can couple, and I found very little talking about 'how to definitively tell the difference.'
Gorgeous
Glad to oblige!
I was going to ask whether it made any of the usual noises - you know, diesel rumbling, hydraulic whine...but I predicted before I posted that you’d predict my post and didn’t bother at that point :-).
Could you please explain that?
Wow, pretty girl! Almost a twin to my first-ever cat Lybra, except Lybra didn’t have the fluffy tail. Is that a Coon or part? Hard to tell from the pic.
Thank you. And she knows it, too! Bijou is a true diva and drama queen. If she had her way, she’d happily spend the day in one of those front-side baby snugglers. Her natural habitat is anywhere on top of me-—lap, chest, leg, etc.
NYC has been cursed with a diminutive (both in body AND mind) little b*stard mayor with a Napoleon complex. First he ruined the city school system by imposing a reign of terror on tenured older teachers and imposing untried far left educational fads on the kids. Then he took away a bunch of prime Times Square real estate by forcing a “tourist mall” to be put there, with lawn chairs and stuff so that all the filthy homeless people will have a comfy place to gather between purse-snatchings, and for his grand finale, he imposed a BAN on sugary soft drinks 16 oz. and up, lest New Yorkers get too fat.
Therefore, a Maine Coon with the wonderful 2-liter Coke bottle tail would be “outlawed” under this cretin’s rules.
Everything clear now?
We need to all pray for a sudden and very final illness to free us of this b*stard and the horrific harm he has caused to me personally and thousands of other innocent New Yorkers.
You didn't REALLY have to guess about the color, right?
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