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Cushnoc Maine Coons, Augusta, ME (2025)

11/27/2024

Drinking my coffee this morning, I looked down and saw this very serious boy.

This is Arthur. He's the father of the new kittens. He's a big serious cat, but he's also my tiny little dumpling boy. 😸 His kitten name was Mittens. He does indeed seem to have mittens, but he'll have you know he's a grown man and that's Mr. Mittens to you!

11/24/2024

Winter '25 litter preview! 6 kittens born 11/16/24. Paw Paw is the mother and Arthur is the father. 2 polys and 4 regular feet. All are brown tabby with white like their mom.

The kitten will be evaluated in mid December, and ready for their new homes in January.

11/23/2024

Guys, I want to share this with you. My dirty secret is that I'm an android user. It makes these collages, and that's probably my most frequent use of AI.

The first 4 panes of this one are my old cat Natasha. The bottom 2 are my kitten Nina. The AI is wrong, but it thinks they are the same cat. SMH. 🤣

Obviously they're not the same cat. Nat had some lilac notes, and Nina is silver. Nat had green eyes and Nina has gold. Natasha was very old in these pictures, and Nina is still a kitten (although she's pretty big, she's like teen sized).

Here's the thing though, this hit me in the heart. Nat was my first Maine C**n. I got her as a present from my mom when I was in college the first time. I never got my cattery off the ground, but Nat stayed with me for her whole life. I had her the whole time until a couple years back. In all the pics here her coat is a bit frumpy, but that's because she's very old. She stayed with me through it all. She traveled the eastern seaboard with me time and time again. We went everywhere together, through everything. From the time she was a little kitten, and she jumped on my head repeatedly while I was trying to meditate, all the way to being an old and grumpy cat, she was with me.

This is kind of the lifecycle of a C**n Cat in reverse: from silly kitten all the way to old chill cat. A sweet friend the whole way through.

09/14/2024

I often see stuff about how dogs have many groups but all cats are just cats. Maine C***s are hunting cats.

Last night I woke up to a series of loud noises downstairs. I highly suspected it was the cats getting into things. I was very tired, so I made a judgement call not to look into it: nobody was making any noises like anybody had been injured.

This spring I bought a ~110 year old house in a quiet pocket of woods just in town. It wasn't that it was perfect, but I was dealing with a crazy rental situation, and it did solve that. I've been working all summer to clean and renovate, but there are areas I haven't gotten to yet. What's up in the light over the sink that doesn't work? Heck if I know! I would rather stay out of it until I'm ready to replace it (it is on 'the list' but that is a rather long list).

Such as it is, I do live in town, so I do have some close neighbors, but it isn't exactly like we're in a suburb here: this is the woods! If you're going to live in the woods in a place where it gets cold in the winter all kinds of mice and critters are going to try to find a crack into your place, and make a warm little nest. And I admit it: not much work has been done on the exterior yet, so there are still plenty of little mouse holes if a mouse is looking.

When I got up to make my coffee this morning, and feed everykitty their tuna wet food, this is what I woke up to. If you have any question about what happened, or if it is POSSIBLE for a cat to get up there? Being patient a few minutes while my coffee brewed revealed exactly what happened.

Somebody went up there. It was Trillian.

So here's the question? Are Maine C***s good hunters?

I'd say so, in my past experience, although no mouse was harmed in this particular incident.

Now I have my house project selected for the weekend. Thanks, Trill.

12/29/2023

Snooze.

11/24/2023

Kitties update!

We needed to move this fall so we had to take some time to do that. I'd like to find a bigger place so that the cats have more space, but it is going to take some time so for now apartment life it is!

Meanwhile, Trillian went into heat for the first time a while ago. She wasn't bred. She is now in heat again, and I am hoping for kittens, but we will just have to wait and see how it goes. Arthur is getting to be quite a big boy, but he still is not a year old yet, and he has a very sweet gentle disposition so Trillian can be a bit intimidating to him at times. She's sweet but she also growls like a little gremlin.

She's a much larger cat than Arthur. Mostly this is age, but partly she is just a very long cat for a female. It takes Maine C***s about 4 years to mature to full size, so although they are both quite impressively large kitties now, they will both still grow at a slow rate for years (Artie is younger than Trill, so he's kind of catching up). Trillian has European lines, which is where she gets her beautiful show coat from, as well as her tallness. Arthur has the more American original compact body and coat style. He will be big too, but his bone structure is different. For now she can still pretty much boss him around. But every day he grows larger and he certainly is larger than he was a month and a half ago :) Anyway, we'll see. Perhaps kittens this spring, but no promises.

08/18/2023

How long is Maine C**n hair?
Depends on the cat and where it is on the cat. This one here is one of Trillian's tail hairs that I pulled off my shoulder during a video call. Pen for scale.

08/13/2023

Are C**n Cats naughty?

The short answer is yes, sometimes.

I woke up this morning to Arthur trying to climb the duct from my portable AC to the window next to my bed over and over again. Yesterday he pulled it out of the window which is where it shouldn't be, so he needs to not do this. The problem is the window is right in front of a tree - it has a perfect view to birds. The duct is exactly like something that a cat should climb on. It looks like a cat tree thing. But it isn't.

I had to repeatedly get up, set him on the floor, and tell him "No." It took quite a few times. This was at 5:30 and it was how my day started. After breakfast, as soon as he came back upstairs he decided to start knocking stuff off my makeup stand in the bathroom. This is a game he likes to play sometimes. I don't particularly like finding my mascara behind the toilet, so it isn't really something he's supposed to do. He's just making mischief.

He's 7 months old and he's already as heavy as an ordinary tomcat. At this age, C**n Cats have a lot of energy and a lot of ideas. This means that left to their own creativity and boredom they can make a lot of messes and come up with all kinds of bad behaviors.

The thing is, it is the same as having a large active breed dog: if you spend a lot of time with your pup, she'll learn to be acceptable in society, and you'll train her to play good games and learn tricks. If you fail to do that for whatever reason you may end up with a destructive monster doggo. But the monster is boredom and frustration, not inherent badness of the animal.

My experience with C***s has been that around 6 months old they begin to get very naughty. But that's not a bad thing because it also means they're having ideas and thinking up games to play. It means they're old enough to begin to be trained. This is possible.

I've heard of people training their cats with treats or clicker training. I don't do either of those personally. I just use verbal commands and hand signals (may are the exact same ones as dogs) and they work.

It takes patience to build a respectful relationship with your cat. It is totally worth it.

07/22/2023

C**n kitten probs:
When you would like to sit in this kind of box but have become too large to fit in it.

07/22/2023

Welcome to the Cushnoc C***s page! This is a space to share what it is like to live with Maine C**n cats, information about the breed, and updates about kittens.

Cushnoc C***s started with this tiny girl. This is Trillian, the first day I brought her home. She was just a wee floof and was unsure of her surroundings, but that soon changed.

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