There is in this country a variety known as the " coon cat," which is handsome, especially in the solid black.

Biggie, Mooney's Maine coon cat, jumped up on the card table and started rubbing his chin on a corner of Alves's wax paper plate.

Our fans, our families, our friends and George Harrison, my Maine Coon cat.

He is called the Bassaris, the Civet Cat, Ring-tailed Cat, Coon Cat and Cacomixtle.

One of these, 8-year-old Maine Coon cat called Fred from Co Westmeath, gave a lick of approval at their launch in the GPO Dublin yesterday.

The judge turned to the district attorney, Eddie Cammack, who never came to Merlotte's, went to church at Tabernacle Baptist, and raised Maine coon cats.