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This is an orthographic study of the maine coon breed of cat.The primary model was my mother's cat named Tommy Dorsey, thus the inspiration for the character version.Related content
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Yayyy! Maine Coon! I have a class tabby Maine Coon! And he's one of the huge, 30 pounders! : D Maine Coons are my favorite breed of cat, I would never own any other breed. ^^
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Beautiful painting and very useful study. I have a lovely Maine Coon of my own :3
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my cats half mane coon but sometimes she is mean lol i love your drawing <3
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yeah they're great cats.
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Interesting ^_^ I don't mean to be nitty-gritty-picky..... but the Latin is wrong ^_^;;; if you care at ALL, I can tell you what it should be if you tell me what you want it to be. lol But I like the actual drawing part :3
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thanks for the offer 
When it comes to scientific classifications, one can't simply pick what they want it to be, it has to be the same as the universally used phrase. Perhaps you were confused by the fact that Felis is synonomous with Feles in the Latin language.
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hmmm.... you could definetly be right on that one. I didn't know if you had just decided to USE Latin for it, or if it was actually the scientific term, so I decided to comment just in case 
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Yeah, I'll confess I'm no expert at Latin. and I will admit that my Scottish Terrier's 'scientific' name is off base, because at the time I was not aware that all domesticated breeds get the same title. Scientific names are often weird in their creation anyway. Often, they are based only partly on latin and partly on another word such as a local term, if a latin one isn't available, or like a discoverer's name or such. I even discovered that the scientific name for a Buffalo is simply 'Bison Bison'....wow, talk about original.
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Bison bison?! LOL that is SO amusing xD I'm going to have to use that some time soon lol.
Well I was just wondering, because having "catus" be the latin term for "cat" seems a bit.... TOO coincidental xD
-looks it up online- ...wow. "cat = cattus" in Latin.... >__>;;; now I feel kind of stupid...
well my Latin class doesn't learn how to say "cat" anyway. We learn how to say "the slave raped the small girl and killed her afterward" 
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O.O I'd be disturbed to go to your school if thats what they teach you
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lol we don't actually learn to say THAT. It's just that we are able to put that sentence together with the vocabulary we've aquired. I mean, there's no "See Jane. See Jane run." mentality. The Roman mentality was "Look! A woman! She is a traitor souly because she's female! Look over tehre! Another nation! Let's take over!" lol. They're preparing us to translate the Illiad and Ceasar x3
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I thought the Illiad was originally in Greek?
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Look for pictures of coon kitties end up reading about Bison XD
heheh
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yup. I take Latin AND Greek xD sorry for the confusion, but I usually lump them together because of it.. >__>;;; probably should stop doing that.....
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oh, or maybe your thinking of the fact that its also sometimes called Felis Domesticus. Either way, thanks for the compliment and the offer on the latin translation. I may take you up on that on some of my fictional species that actually need fake scientific names.
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