We couldn’t let #NationalBlackCatDay go by without sharing a few pics of our resident house panther, Roscoe, who we’ve had the pleasure of spending our lives with for nearly 5 years now. We love you, Roscoe! 😺💜💛 #CoSoCats #CatsOfCoSo #Cats
@GEAUXJayna He’s a handsome boy!
@cjcrew He says thank you! We agree! 😺
@GEAUXJayna Is he Maine Coon? He looks it in the face.
@cjcrew I’m not sure. We also have his adorable littermate brother, Theo, a short-haired black & white cat, & while Roscoe is larger than Theo (by a couple lbs) & long-haired, he’s not quite as tall/long as Maine Coons tend to be. I’m wondering what their dad was like. Their mom is a short-haired black cat. They have sisters (adopted before we met them): one is long-haired tabby and the other is a short-haired black & white cat. Roscoe’s fur is like velvet. 😺
@GEAUXJayna Rabbit fur kitty! Arya has that kind of fur but she’s a short hair black cat. Riley, Riley has enough fur to cover the bath tub in between showers. She hates other cats so she hangs out there until
I kick her out so I can shower. I think she’s probably a medium hair but that coat is more double density than long.
Always possible there’s a Maine coon on the wood pile somewhere, I just like to guess. It was his face that made me ask, the nose and the set of his eyes.
@cjcrew Yeah, I’m curious about their backgrounds as well. For example, I think Fiona has to be at least majority ragdoll, based upon her coloring, long fur, and her incredibly long body. She is nearly 17 lbs, but in good shape. Even our vet is impressed with her length. The only other cat we have (past or present) who comes close is our 18yo, Bryan, who I think may be part Maine Coon due to his height and long hair.
@GEAUXJayna Ragdolls are so awesome. They are the Rastafarians of the cat breeds.
@cjcrew Fiona sure is awesome, mixed-breed ragdoll or not. 😻
@GEAUXJayna A family I knew years ago had a Ragdoll. That cat was so laid back she would just melt into you when you picked her up. They had four kids, nothing startled that cat. I’d never seen that before or since. She was silky and beautiful.
@cjcrew Fiona is super laid back with us most of the time, but she’s really shy when anyone but us is in the house, like several of our other kitties. I guess that’s either the “mix” part of her background or it’s due to the fact that we adopted she and her foster brothers Roscoe and Theo as older kittens only 3 months before the pandemic started, so they did not get a chance to get used to friends and family visiting in their early years.
@GEAUXJayna Makes sense, two years of isolating, genetics is a crap shoot, and some of us are born shy. I used to refuse to go inside when we would visit family members I didn’t know.
My cat would scatter to the four winds when someone came to visit, but I’m not a very social type person so that’s to be expected.
@cjcrew Yeah, I’d say that more of our past and present cats were/are shy than outgoing, but we’ve loved them all and people who like and love us definitely get it and aren’t offended by our cats when they’re not out and about while company is here. It’s definitely a crapshoot. We’ve also found that sometimes as they age, the shy ones become more mellow and outgoing with guests. It’s like they take on a “kitty ambassador” role. 😺
@cjcrew Yeah, since Covid, we’ve only had a few people over a few times. We normally meet up at other places. We did have cat sitters every day 2x/day when we were on a week of vacation this June. We had a couple cats who never knew a stranger (they have both passed on) & our little orange guy Mikey even liked shoulder rides so much that he once hopped on a repairman’s shoulders when we were chatting about what needed to be done to fix our furnace. Good thing he was a good sport & loved cats! 😹
@GEAUXJayna That’s funny!
@GEAUXJayna With the exception of my brothers I don’t really have company anymore. But I’m pretty sure the three I have left would still hide.
I did have one cat, the first I’d gotten as an “on my own” adult, who was a lap fungus. That cat would take advantage of any lap in the house, he didn’t care. He was amazing. Got him as an adult, brought him home without a carrier (newbie), took me 45 minutes to get him out from under the front seat of my Escort.