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The cat in question is a beautiful, healthy-looking Maine Coon cat with an unusual color pattern in that it has patches of gray on an otherwise orange tabby coat, and also has a dramatic split in ...
An example is the rex allele which appeared in Maine Coons in the early 1990s. Rexes appeared in America, Germany and the UK, where one breeder caused consternation by calling them "Maine Waves". Two UK breeders did test mating which indicated that this was probably a new rex mutation and that it was recessive.
The Maine Coon is a large domesticated cat breed. One of the oldest natural breeds in North America, the breed originated in the U.S. state of Maine, [3] [4] where it is the official state cat. The Maine Coon is a large and social cat, commonly referred to as "the gentle giant."
A rare predominantly black cat with odd eyes. The odd-eyed colouring is caused when either the epistatic (recessive) white gene or dominant white (which masks any other colour genes and turns a cat completely solid white) [3] or the white spotting gene (which is the gene responsible for bicolour coats) [4] prevents melanin granules from reaching one eye during development, resulting in a cat ...
The biggest myth about a Maine Coon, says Zhana, a Maine Coon cat breeder outside Sacramento, California, “is that you’re going to get a Maine Coon and it will definitely be this humongous ...
When a Maine Coon isn't sitting pretty like a supermodel of the cat world, they're likely watching the world go by from the comfort of a windowsill or spending time relaxing near the people they love.
It is possible to have a cat with a naturally white coat without this gene, as an extreme form of white spotting, although this is rare; some small non-white patch usually remains. Furthermore, there are multiple genes responsible for blue eyes, and several of these genes are not linked to masking, white coats or deafness, such as the dominant ...
Maine Coons have a friendly and outgoing personality, extending to children and other pets. Thus, they make excellent family companions. Despite not being typical lap cats, Maine Coons cherish ...