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Purred: Fri Mar 21, '08 3:01pm PST 
Stunning me isn't really a cross between a racoon and a domestic shorthaired, but there's a good reason our owners used to suspect it. When my mom was growing up in Maine, she knew that I was not half raccon and bobcat.
Of course she knew it's scientifically impossible for racoons or bobcats (both plentiful in the Pine Tree State), she wondered if the qualities of us and beautiful animals somehow, by some strange spiritual osmosis entered the sould of the domestic cat and changed it forever.
The resemblance is partly in our tail, which indeed is long, bushy, extravagant and sometimes ringed remarkedly like a raccon tail. Like other cold weather animals, such as the anctoc fox and Siberian Husky, such a tail comes in very handy on a cold winter's night when sleeping outdoors, serving as a combination ski mask and muffler. Our large, well-tuffed ears (sometimes called "Lynx tips" in Maine Coon enthusiast circles) and big feet (like snow shoes) probably gave rise to the bobcat legend. And of course, like both the raccoon and bobcat, We are nocturnal and prowly, but no more than any other domestic cat.
We are also superior climbers, like raccoons and bobcats, another quality which may have given rise to the legend of their origin. Some people maintain that we aren't "vertically oriented," possibly because we are so heavy. However, we can climb quite well when we choose. We can actually do anything we please.
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