Really big cat :)

Santora56 · Post by **Santora56** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:56 am

http://sergepics.com/jokes/pic.html?q=big_cat

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:09 am

Wow. But note, that it's posted on a /jokes/ page. Could something about this be not quite right?

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:54 am

I have Clancy who is 26 pounds, it was my xwife's cat and she left him behind. Tried to put him on a diet, but I don't like having my legs shredded or my face in the middle of the night when his bowl is empty.

MarkB

trisha · Post by **trisha** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:57 am

Small lady and Maine Coon on steroids???

Trisha

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:07 am

Could be the camera angle but the Moggies head looks kinda out of proportion.

Slan,
D.

artsohio · Post by **artsohio** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:16 am

Snope's surprising verdict on this picture.

SirNick · Post by **SirNick** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:54 am

I think the best thing about this photo is the seemingly endless quantity of off-color jokes we could make!!

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:06 am

Can you imagine how much cat hair this cat generates. The owner can probably knit sweaters.

Ron

Kuranes · Post by **Kuranes** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:32 am

RonKiley wrote:Can you imagine how much cat hair this cat generates. The owner can probably knit sweaters.

Ron

Related -- when we were growing up, my mother combed out our one long hair cat for a while, kept all of the cat hair, and had someone spin it into yarn and knitted it in as decoration in a scarf. She also did the same thing with some hair from our collie, but was able to make a whole scarf with that much hair.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:25 am

RonKiley wrote:Can you imagine how much cat hair this cat generates. The owner can probably knit sweaters.

Ron

Hmmm....this could be the start of a very bad practical joke, if the sweater is given to someone who is very allergic! My husband is very allergic...he'd better not put one toe out of line!

Heather

Daryl · Post by **Daryl** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:44 am

RonKiley wrote:Can you imagine how much cat hair this cat generates. The owner can probably knit sweaters.

Ron

My Mom used to vacuum our cat. She never could figure out why the cat didn't like her.

tuaz · Post by **tuaz** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:40 am

artsohio wrote:Snope's surprising verdict on this picture.

Interesting. I myself thought there was just something off about the back legs (and the back half, in general) of the cat in the first photo.

Pat Cannady · Post by **Pat Cannady** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:49 pm

Naw, Main Coons, a breed from the NE US, just have really big paws. "Snowshoe paws" some of the CFA types call them. I suspect Martha is very petite, perhaps all of 5 foot nothing, which makes her friend Riley look like more of a monster than he really is. I had a longhaired tomcat about the same size once, we suspect he may have been part Main Coon but he had no papers. Anyway he weighed 22-25lbs most of his life. He used to scare hell out of people until they figured out he was friendly. He never bit or scratched anyone in anger, even though he had his claws. Small children used to frighten him, though, and he'd run a mile at the sight of a toddler coming at him, saying "kitty, kitty".

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:04 pm

Pat Cannady wrote:Small children used to frighten him, though, and he'd run a mile at the sight of a toddler coming at him, saying "kitty, kitty".

Cats are good at recognizing real danger--tiny kids and raccoons will generally terrify the toughest cat.

About nine or ten years ago, my wife rescued an injured Maine Coon cat, which we passed on to a friend, as our 4 resident cats didn't get along with him. He's now almost the size of the cat in the picture--but much fatter. He's so fat that he cllimbs the stairs in their house one step at a time. That is, he has to get his hind legs up onto a step before trying to haul himself up to the next one. Fortunately, the stairs are carpeted, so he can get a good grip. I suggested a stringent diet, but they claim that he doesn't actually eat that much.

One of my cats, a neutered tom, got up close to 25 pounds, but he wasn't nearly that large. His hair was pretty short, though.

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:18 pm

Our neighbors have a Maine Coon. He's much smaller, about the size of the dark female cat in the Snopes link, but he's still a pretty big cat.

He's also a very good-natured cat. Since our neigbors got him about a year before we got our current cat, he tends to regard our yard as part of his territory. Our cat used to get along with him, but as she matured began to resent him coming into our yard.

These days, she growls at him, and he walks towards her. She always ends up backed up against the house, still growling, while he stands a few feet away looking amused. She's slightly larger than average herself, but he's about half again her weight, and due to his thick fur appears to be over twice her bulk.

It used to worry me, but the only time I saw them actually fight was brief - she jumped on him, he knocked her rolling (without using claws, as far as I could tell), and she retreated. Now she just calls him names and he sneers at her. If they weren't both fixed I'd expect love to blossom.