Understanding Your Maine Coon Cat's Behavior

By Lori Cattleberg

Have fun training and understanding your Maine Coon kitten and cat. You can learn how to potty train your cat, and learn about health concerns, and what is the best type of cat food to feed your cat. Learn how to take care of your cat’s teeth, their claws, their ears, and more. Learn how to have a lot of fun with your cat also. Make some of these easy to make toys that will drive your cat wild!  
 
Find out why your cat does some of the crazy little things they do, and learn how to how to enjoy playing with them. Learn what to do if your cat is going to have kittens, and learn about different types of worms, fleas, ticks and other harmful things that can hurt your cat.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vince Stead
• Release date: Nov 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781516328284

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1.The Characteristics of a Maine Coon Cat

2.How to Potty Train your Cat

3.Items You Should Never Let your Cat Eat

4.How to Trim your Cats Nails Properly

5.Some Fun Ways to Entertain your Cat

6.How to Clean your Cats Ears Correctly

7.What You Should Know about Cat Teeth

8.How to Make Sure your Cat is Eating a Healthy Amount of Food

9.The Different Kinds of Worms Cats can Get

10.How to Deworm your Cat

11.What to Expect When your Cat is Pregnant

12.Tricks you Can Teach your Cat

13.Why Cats Like to Climb Up Stuff

14.How to Make Home-Made Cat Food

15.Homemade Cat Toys you Can Make Yourself

16.When Should You Spay Or Neuter Your Cat?

17.What you Should Know about Fleas & Ticks

18.What the Benefits of Micro chipping Your Dog Are to You

19.How Invisible Fencing Typically Works to Train and Protect Your Cat

20.Why do Cats Love Catnip so Much?

21.The Cat Grass Story

22.What to Do About Cat Urine

23.The Difference Between Cat Spraying and Urinating

1.  The Characteristics of a Maine Coon Cat

The Maine Coon Cat is also known as the American Longhair. The actual origins of the Maine Coon Cat are actually not known, but there are many theories and myths about where they came from. The most common theory is that they descend from French cats that Marie Antoinette sent to Maine. Many think that the Maine Coon Cat is a cross of a cat and a raccoon, which is not possible to do.

Female Maine Coon cats weight between 8 to 12 pounds and male Maine Coon cats can weigh up to 20 pounds. The Maine Coon Cat can get up to 40 inches in length. Maine Coon Cats are a very large breed of cat.

They have a long saggy coat that feels silky when touched. Their coats are water resistant, have tufted ears, and long flowing tails.

The Maine Coon Cat has a very shaggy coat that is very heavy and silky. Their hair does not usually mat up, but brushing them weekly is a good thing to do, and they will enjoy it most likely. Cats mostly groom themselves, which results in hairballs. They enjoy water, so it would not be a bad idea to give them a bath when needed on occasion.

The Maine Coon Cat comes in several different colors. The most common would be brown, cream, red, black and white. They come in several different patterns that they can come in also, like mackerel, tortoise, tabby, solid, patch, and torbie.

Maine Coon Cats are very gentle cats. They are very sweet and friendly. They are built for living in cold temperatures outside, but its is best if they are inside. They are knowing for their loving nature. They can be trained to walk on a leash. The Maine Coon Cat's are known as the gentle giant of the cat world. They also get along well with children, so they are a good family pet to have and love.

Just like any other cat, the Maine Coon Cat has the potential to run into health problems. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a form of heart disease, which thickens the heart muscle. Hip dysplasia is another common disease among cats, which is a defect to the hip socket, causing them to move slowly or not jump around. Another is spinal muscular atrophy, which is when spinal chord neurons die, which leads to degeneration and weak muscles.

The disease doesn't cause pain and they can live a normal life. You should take your Maine Coon Cat to the vet on a regular basis for check ups to make sure they haven't gotten any of these diseases.