Anybody got a Norwegian Forest Cat? They look like big buggers. I like animals and all non human creatures quite a lot, but cats, cats I absolutely adore the little bastards.
Our two Maine Coons. They are half-brothers (same father, different mothers).
Lovely looking cats, what are they like as pets?
They are relatively easy to keep as pets. Good quality feed and regular brushings to stop them getting matted on their stomachs. They absolutely hate water and they are great climbers.
Our two Maine Coons. They are half-brothers (same father, different mothers).
OMG! I’ve always wanted a Maine coon 😻 Insanely jealous. What are their names??? 🥰🤩
The redhead is mine and is named after Gottlieb Daimler of Daimler-Benz fame and the brown was named Emile by my wife (she wouldn’t let me name him after Karl Benz, as well)!
Anybody got a Norwegian Forest Cat? They look like big buggers. I like animals and all non human creatures quite a lot, but cats, cats I absolutely adore the little bastards.
They’re about the same size as a Maine Coon.
This is the day we picked them out at the breeders. How could we resist these two?
Anybody got a Norwegian Forest Cat? They look like big buggers. I like animals and all non human creatures quite a lot, but cats, cats I absolutely adore the little bastards.
They’re about the same size as a Maine Coon.
This is the day we picked them out at the breeders. How could we resist these two?
Our friends from India, cricket coaches/Groundstaff both originally with dog fears always asking for photos to send home where apparently you only have a dog for one reason.
This is Esma. She's just arrived at my mate's house to be fostered for a year or so before being sent on to be trained as a guide dog. I can't imagine how they'll feel when it's time to say goodbye to her, but it's a great thing they're doing.
One of our neighbours does early guiding dog training, when he moved in he had a lab and that eventually moved on. He spoke to me after he met our dogs and wanted to train a shepherd next, foresight is a wonderful thing but I know he’s regretting it already.
At a year old they turn into absolute barstards if you let them, and for 12 months he did nothing bar exercise and once the dog reached early adolescence with no parameters resembling ground rules he took over. He asked my advice in the dogs early days and like most people poo pooed it, with a nah a dog is a dog attitude. The next breed to start hit the rescue will the Belgium Malinois because people think a dog is a dog, high prey drive working dogs need training and exercise not walking to the newsagent.
A couple of my pals train guiding dogs for Pathfinders who use rescued sheps for leading blind folk and spend months repairing damage done by poor training.
It’s not important if your dog can play dead or beg but it is important it knows how to greet someone for the first time without jumping up, it’s not important your dog shouts at another dog across the road, it is important it’s not allowed to drag you across the road because you can’t control it.
Training, training and more training, everyday is a school day 😉
Our two Maine Coons. They are half-brothers (same father, different mothers).
We in herited our Mim, who we thought was a Maine Coon but couldn't confirm it. Not very approachable but came round in the end. She was 22 when she went over the Rainbow Bridge. I can see some differences here.
A Hungarian Vizsla I believe. Gorgeous, I am too old to take on another dog, Zuben is coming up to 13 but were I able a Vizsla would be my first choice. Sigh. 😕
Anybody got a Norwegian Forest Cat? They look like big buggers. I like animals and all non human creatures quite a lot, but cats, cats I absolutely adore the little bastards.
They’re about the same size as a Maine Coon.
This is the day we picked them out at the breeders. How could we resist these two?
I've a Norweigan forest cat, and yes I can confirm they are absolute sh1t heads! Often mistaken for a Maine coon
We got ours from Battersea, we were last chance saloon as he'd been brought back a few times, passed to Battersea as the other cats protection couldn't cope, needed a welding glove to enter the cage! They called me and I was told it's us or the vet!
But, fast forward about 4 months I managed to train him so that his first instinct wasn't to attack, and now it's rare that he does, and I know the signs so deal with it before he does. Only one downside is they are fantastic hunters, a mouse a week minimum and I wouldn't leave him alone with a baby.
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Insanely jealous.
What are their names??? 🥰🤩
They look like big buggers.
I like animals and all non human creatures quite a lot, but cats, cats I absolutely adore the little bastards.
They absolutely hate water and they are great climbers.
This is the day we picked them out at the breeders. How could we resist these two?
Awesome.
I'm getting one 😻
He spoke to me after he met our dogs and wanted to train a shepherd next, foresight is a wonderful thing but I know he’s regretting it already.
He asked my advice in the dogs early days and like most people poo pooed it, with a nah a dog is a dog attitude.
The next breed to start hit the rescue will the Belgium Malinois because people think a dog is a dog, high prey drive working dogs need training and exercise not walking to the newsagent.
Can they roam, or do you have to keep them fenced in?
We in herited our Mim, who we thought was a Maine Coon but couldn't confirm it. Not very approachable but came round in the end. She was 22 when she went over the Rainbow Bridge. I can see some differences here.
Gorgeous, I am too old to take on another dog, Zuben is coming up to 13 but were I able a Vizsla would be my first choice.
Sigh. 😕
We got ours from Battersea, we were last chance saloon as he'd been brought back a few times, passed to Battersea as the other cats protection couldn't cope, needed a welding glove to enter the cage! They called me and I was told it's us or the vet!
But, fast forward about 4 months I managed to train him so that his first instinct wasn't to attack, and now it's rare that he does, and I know the signs so deal with it before he does. Only one downside is they are fantastic hunters, a mouse a week minimum and I wouldn't leave him alone with a baby.