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Snow Queen Maine Coon

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The Snow Queen (Danish: Snedronningen ) is an original fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Gowns have been made from the story. This cat looks like a beautiful woman in a snow queen gown. She's the prettiest cat I've seen for a long time. Snow Queen Maine Coon. Photo: Twitter. Here is a pretty lady in a snow queen gown: Pretty woman in a snow queen gown. Photo: Joyce Young. I think the cat is more impressive than the woman :) Imagine living with a Maine Coon this beautiful. It would be impossible. Well, not really but I'd be constantly in awe of her. And she'd have to be captive; a full-time indoor cat. Imagine her wandering around outside whenever she wanted to. That would be impossible. Remember that white cats can be deaf. Around 50% are affected, as I recall are.  A researcher, George Strain concluded: "that out of 256 white cats from three studies, 12.1% were deaf in one ear (unilaterally deaf) and 37.9% were deaf in both ears (bilaterally dea...

Is this a Maine Coon?

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Is this a Maine Coon? Probably! Is this chunky-looking, dog-like, all-white cat with odd-eyes a Maine Coon? I don't know for sure because no information is provided with this picture. However, I am pretty confident that this is a young Maine Coon cat.  The assessment is based upon two main elements of the cat's appearance: the large triangular ears which in this case are particularly large even for a Maine Coon cat, and the strong, square muzzle which is very typical of this highly popular cat breed. I've just noticed, by the way, that it appears that the cat's whiskers have been trimmed. I could be wrong but they look unusually short. Cat owners should never trim their cat's whiskers. Perhaps that is obvious to everybody but apparently it is not. Whiskers have a mass of nerves at their base to allow cats to detect minute changes even in the air current around them. They are a very useful part of their anatomy and they should not be modified in any way shape or f...

White Maine Coon with heterochromia iridum

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Heterochromia iridum means odd-eye colour in layperson's language. There are two cats in the picture as you can see. Both are totally white and both have odd-eye colour. They have the classic odd-eye colour which is one is blue and the other is gold-yellow. The cat in the background is not a Maine Coon in my view. If she is then she does not have the right type i.e. appearance to be a show cat because the muzzle is not strong enough and the ears are no lynx tipped. The cat in the foreground is very much a Maine Coon. Odd-eye colour is very common in all-white cats whether they are purebred or random bread. This is because the dominant white gene which removes pigmentation from the hair strands also removes pigmentation from one of the eyes leaving that eye blue. It is also claimed that inbreeding ("a lack of genetic diversity ") predisoposes animals to this condition. The blueness is caused by the refraction of light through the eye rather than by pigmentation in the ey...

All-white Maine Coon with impressively calm human expression

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The photographer is Robert Sijka (per the photo). This is another Maine Coon with a human expression. It is not an overtly human expression but you can definitely detect the human face in this cat. For some reason, the Maine Coon is predisposed to looking like a person. They can certainly be selectively bred to look that way. The photographer is excellent as well. I seen his work before and he takes outstanding photographs of cats of this breed normally. This is an all-white cat and therefore he may be deaf because the dominant white gene which causes the hair strands to be devoid of pigmentation can also affect hearing. The eyes are a pale blue which is typical of white cats but sometimes they are a more deeper blue than this. Altogether a fabulous looking cat. Imagine owning this cat? Anyone visiting your home would be stunned and all you would talk about would be this beautiful, magnetic creature.

Shaggy Maine Coon

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I spy a Maine Coon , a photo by rbstijl on Flickr. The Maine Coon fur is shaggy. It is not meant to be too neat and tidy I think. The International Cat Association like the slightly untidy appearance. The fur is not of an even length. It looks more natural. This nice photograph sort of show off that shaggy haired look. You can also see the great ear hair of a Maine Coon. They are famous for their ear hair sprouting out and those glorious lynx tips, the hair growing out from the tip of the ear making them look more pointed and larger. I think this is a white Maine Coon.

White Maine Coon

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Here is a beautiful photograph of a beautiful white Maine Coon cat taken early on in the career of Helmi Flick. White Maine Coon. Photo copyright Helmi Flick The photo on this page is protected by copyright ©. Violations of copyright are reported to Google.com (DMCA). This cat is deaf. The gene that takes pigment away from the cat coat can also affect hearing. It is quite common. Please read this page about deaf cat featuring the above photo. This page: Cat Coats White discusses the genetics about white cats.

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