Not really, but she most likely has some Maine Coon blood in the mix of her ancestry. One of the vets who has seen her said that there's a lot of Maine Coon in the non-pedigreed genepool, at least from the mid-Atlantic states on north. She's tiny, but the same vet said that a female Main Coon can wind up small if she's spayed late, and Perrine was probablt more than two years old and had miscarried a litter by the time I got her fixed (she arrived pregnant but was so tiny -- and literally starving -- that I had no clue until I came home and found the aborted foetuses in various rooms. (Ick.) She's gotten much bigger since, but she's still a small cat.
She does have the ear-tufts. The adorable Maine Coon ear-tufts.
Ah. That could explain Steve's Heidi. She ticks every single box for MC purebred except size. He got her from a shelter at 2 or 3, so we've no idea about her medical history before then.
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Not really, but she most likely has some Maine Coon blood in the mix of her ancestry. One of the vets who has seen her said that there's a lot of Maine Coon in the non-pedigreed genepool, at least from the mid-Atlantic states on north. She's tiny, but the same vet said that a female Main Coon can wind up small if she's spayed late, and Perrine was probablt more than two years old and had miscarried a litter by the time I got her fixed (she arrived pregnant but was so tiny -- and literally starving -- that I had no clue until I came home and found the aborted foetuses in various rooms. (Ick.) She's gotten much bigger since, but she's still a small cat.
She does have the ear-tufts. The adorable Maine Coon ear-tufts.
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Many more happy years together to you & Perrine!