Film celebrates the life of Bobby Flay's Maine Coon 'Nacho' who recently passed over the rainbow bridge

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Film celebrates the life of Bobby Flay's Maine Coon 'Nacho' who passed over the rainbow bridge recently
Boby Flay and Nacho. Image: screenshot from the video on this page which is from Twitter.

Here is a nice little video which is on Twitter X of the celebrated and much loved, ginger Maine Coon, Nacho, who recently passed over the rainbow bridge. His caregiver who survives him is Bobby Flay who is as celebrated - or more so - than Nacho. Mr Flay was devastated. The celebrity chef and entrepreneur founded his premium cat food brand in 2021 and named it after his beloved Maine Coon.

RELATED POST: American celebrity chef Bobby Flay named his pet food business after Nacho, his ginger tabby Maine Coon.


There are a couple of points worth making at this time:

Firstly, Nacho was the tender age of 9 when he died - the average lifespan of cats of this breed is 11 years. Nine years is about half the lifespan of a standard moggie cat. I have not seen the reports on the cause of Nacho's death as yet. If you have, please leave a comment. If not, I will speculate and say that it was almost certainly hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) an inherited disease which plagues the health of this cat breed. It is terribly sad that the Maine Coon has such a long list of genetically inherited diseases. Maine Coons as young as 4 months of age can have the disease. 

RELATED: Genetic diseases in purebred cats. A pretty full exposition on this sad topic.

Secondly Nacho was a ginger tabby and nearly all ginger tabby cats are males. They are also called 'red' (by breeders) and 'yellow' or 'orange' tabbies. Oh, storytellers call them 'marmalade' cats.

Ginger is a sex-linked characteristic which means the genes that make the cat ginger are on the chromosomes that make the cat male. When females are ginger which happens occasionally, they are usually sterile.

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