Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Mark on November 21, 2008, 09:31:39 AM
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An experienced biologist assures me they are one and the same. I know very little about peds but am sure he is wrong. He said they are just two different names for the same cat.
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He be wrong then! But admittedly, they are close relatives. There are 2 stories related to the emergence of the Maine Coon - one involves some unlikely guff to do with shagging racoons (hence 2nd part of the name). The other goes that Marie Antoinette planned to flee to America and sent some of her favourite NFCs (wot she had got from some Euro suck-up that she had met) ahead of her. Every plan has its flaw and MA didn't make it but the cats did and interbred with the local (either wild or to some extent domeseticated) cats to produce the Maine Coon.
Whatever the real story was, there is no doubt that the MCs are very closely related to both the NFCs and the Siberians. I expect someone from Svartalfheims will be a long in due course to provide far more reliable info than me. This is just the stuff I came across while researching proir to taking Dot.
C.
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I read that vikings took nfc to america can't remember where
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can't remember where
Maine? :innocent:
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I read that vikings took nfc to america can't remember where
That rings a bell with me too - something about them being prolific mousers and keeping the ships rodent-free.
Mark - you don't know that - they could have been dropped in NY State but not fancied a shag until they got to Maine.
C.
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An experienced biologist assures me they are one and the same. I know very little about peds but am sure he is wrong. He said they are just two different names for the same cat.
He may be an experienced biologist, but he obviously doesnt know his cat breeds! Of course, from a biological point of view they are the same species and are the same in that all cats are cats, but they are different breeds. They have different physical characteristics - i think wegies have a more wedge shaped face? or is that the other way around? Lottie is the one to put you (or rather your experienced biologist) right on this one.
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I think a biologist would say that as they would only be looking on the inside :sick: Im sure most cats have the same insides lol
Here is the difference between them-
http://www.kvasir.co.uk/mc_v_nfc.htm
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Yep, in my cat books they are different, we believe our Squeaky was Maine Coone