Maine Coon Cats...

[Jarlaxle]

...do qualify as "obstacles" when sleeping in the center of the kitchen floor. A pint of soda makes a mess when dropped. A 240lb CSB/Plan B Forum member hitting the kitchen floor results in a resounding THUD! that shakes the entire house. Cats are usually not happy after getting splashed with cold soda. Said forum member is also not especially thrilled after wearing said soda. Said forum member's wife might run down to the kitchen, take one look, and start laughing.

Now please excuse me, I need to get a dry shirt. And an ice pack. And another glass of soda.

[Gob]

LOL!!!

I'd have thought the breed would have been renamed in these "PC" days...

[loCAtek]

"obstacles" AKA speedbumps...


Did this result in Road Rage leading to RoadKill?

[Sean]

Maybe they just like cheese...

[BoSoxGal]

[loCAtek]

I had a cat (anomaly: I'm not a cat person but the kitten was an '89 earthquake victim) who so loved cheese that I taught him to 'sit' for it.

[Daisy]

A workmate has a Maine Coon, I dunno about obstacle, but looking at the state of his arms I'm pretty sure it can qualify as a bear trap.

[Jarlaxle]

LOL!!!

I'd have thought the breed would have been renamed in these "PC" days...

Maybe...it's kind of an obscure breed.

And they really DO look like raccoons.

[@meric@nwom@n]

I can see how you might miss one in your path, being such tiny little kittens.

[Jarlaxle]

At night, all cats are gray. Even 28lb cats like the one currently sleeping on my lap. Maya, for the record, is about 10lbs beyond "lapcat" status.

[loCAtek]

Any pics? Bet she'd make a good avatar~

[oldr_n_wsr]

We have a 100+ lb black lab and at night he all but disappears. Been too many times I have tripped over him.

[loCAtek]

Cat5 (the legally blind cat who's madly in love with me) is a brilliant pure white, and I still didn't see him in the dark one night. Whenever I enter the room, he runs happily right to me, and tries to wind himself around my ankles. He's discovered that's a very bad idea, if I'm coming in, in the middle of night and don't want to disturb the roommates by turning on the light. Two steps in the door and RaaaaaY-OOWWWWWWWWW!!!

...but he still loves me dammit.

[@meric@nwom@n]

We have a 100+ lb black lab and at night he all but disappears. Been too many times I have tripped over him.

We got a collar, for our mostly black dog, which has blinking red lights on it for outside, inside is still a problem.

[loCAtek]

The hardest dogs to see are Schipperkes; even in broad daylight, they can be hard to spot. I'd heard they were black dogs, but they aren't just blacker than other dogs; they are the blackest. About the same size as a Chihuahua, although half a Schipperke's mass seems to be fur, which is solid black no highlights Their noses are black; their eyes are black and I believe their blood is black. You don't so much see them as recognize a canine presence in that 'inky, dog-shaped, blot'. They're so black, not even light escapes their region of space!


Can you find the Schipperke in this picture?

[Jarlaxle]

We have a 100+ lb black lab and at night he all but disappears. Been too many times I have tripped over him.

We got a collar, for our mostly black dog, which has blinking red lights on it for outside, inside is still a problem.

I've considered that for Vierna, my tiny black shorthair cat...except she hates collars. Her record for getting one off was half an hour, none have made it 24 hours. She seems to have accepted the harness, though.

Marm is no problem...even if I can't see him laying on the floor, I can easily hear his snoring. It sounds a bit like a misfiring Kenworth.