Seven yrs. ago I was given this darling kitten by my kids as the last of our family had graduated from high school and since I love cats, the kids thought I needed a cat. We picked it out at a feed store in Wasilla, Alaska. We now live back in Idaho, and I was showing my cat to a neighbor and she said, "Oh, a Maine Coon cat!" We just laughed. But I have checked out a few sites on the net about this breed and now we are quite sure that's what we have. She's beautiful....her name is Cinnamon Rose or "Rosie". Ok, she has a very quiet meow, the coloring is the same as described..she looks like a fluffy tabby cat with a mane or ruff and short hair through her shoulders, 5 toes in front, 4 in back, has large white stockened feet, a darker wide stripe down her back, a huge long fluffy tail, she toleratoes dogs and kids but sometimes is quite jumpy, you can't make her do anything...if we hold her, she tolerates it for a few seconds and then pushes away. But when she's in the mood, she loves sitting in our laps. Somebody dropped off a preg. cat a couple of yrs. ago and our cat stayed pretty much out of sight till that cat with litter was removed. So, what do you think? Guess I just wanted to write to someone and tell them about our cat...a definate member of our family.

-- Anonymous, October 13, 2000