Pets don't exactly fit with my current mobile lifestyle between the UK and the Philippines.
But I would like you to meet Saffie. Sadly she crossed over the rainbow bridge a number of years ago but she was my companion for about 17 years. 
My late wife and I had been looking for a Mainecoon cat for a little while and on a visit to a local-ish cat breeder to look at some kittens we met Saffie at the time she was a 3-year-old show cat and breeding queen but over the last few litters, she had been getting a bit territorial and fighting with the other cats. So she had an eviction notice, It didn't take long, about 5 minutes into the drive home and Yve just said, 'It's OK you can have her we can get a kitten for me another day'. Yep, I was smitten and she could tell, and a couple of weeks later when her kittens had been taken we went to pick her up.
So it was years of waking up to fish breath and this face in the morning.
Do I miss her? Yep all the time.
My stepdaughter had a Maine Coon Cat. It was just a foul, nasty creature and I loved it :)
It was close enough to being a dog that I really did like that cat.
Yep, she used to bring sticks home all the time.
It didn't take long to give up being a posh show cat. She would mug squirrels she would hide in a bush on our back fence and as they ran along it she would jump them 25lb of cat landing on you from 6ft up never ended well for the squirrel.
I'm guessing Sam and that cat could be united in their taste for Squirrels :)
We had a coon cat, not sure if it was a Maine variety but the thing was huge! It also didn't like anyone but me since I raised the thing from a little stray I found under my neighbors car. Thing was a ferocious hunter but that got the best of him, went out one night and never came back. They definitely have an attitude and personality!
Yep. They don't suffer fools or prey easily :)
He was too funny, name was Leo. My mom and sister would always try to cuddle him or get him to sit with them and if they tried to bother him he would give them a warning swat. My mom got a good claw in her one day and she stopped trying since lol
There we go the right photo this time :)
Saffie looks nice and peaceful in the first picture and a little bit devilish in the second but sure was a nice looking cat! Are those Maine Coon's known for a particular nature? It seems Tom knew one that wasn't so nice but it's difficult to imagine that cute sleeping cat in the image above cold be like that.
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ENGAGEtokens.Cats cracked me up when they would stick out their tongue like that. I learned from my vet though that if they do it all the time it's a sign that they have teeth issues lol so it was cute but a little worrying sometimes!
Sorry to hear about your wife and the cat both being gone, that's awful!
Thanks for that, yep still miss them both loads