Comments on Norwegian Forest Cat: Norwegian Forest Cat History

SOME HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTIC INFO The short ha...

2011-04-04T09:49:19.257-07:00

SOME HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTIC INFO
The short hair in summer and thick long hair in winter is the one characteristic specific of a NFC.... the short hair is double layered. winter coat has three layers. It is true that the american nick name of "wegie" is a shortened version of "Norwegian". Solid white is not the common. They were more tiger stripped, with white faces and necks, large ears. Folklore calls them fairy cats and that is what the Vikings called them, they had them on their ships. In many paintings of the Norse Goddess Freya: Shapeshifter, Mistress of Cats and Queen of the Valkyries, shows her having Skogkatts pulling her chariott or standing around at her feet....

Our cat Howard is a Wegie. I didn't know it wh...

2011-04-04T09:30:55.354-07:00

Our cat Howard is a Wegie. I didn't know it when I got him. It was summer and he had a short shiny coat. He shedded it, or more like molted in fall and grew this long thick silky coat in its place. He looked like a totally different cat. Then molted again in spring. I had never heard of such a thing happening. I started doing research and found it could only be a norwegian forest cat. He is not yet 2 yrs old and already weighs 13 lbs (very tall and long). He loves to climb and doesn't too much mind water. He would climb to sit on top of doors. We finaly built him an 8 foot hollow tree, branches, leaves and all (out of heavy cardboard tubes)and he is now satisfied to climb it... He is extremely smart (says mama, plays fetch), ornery (always stalkin us and attackin on his hind legs)(hides things in our shoes, opens cuboards and puts his toys in there)and just beautiful. We love him very much. Haven't run into anyone that has ever heard of them.... I love reading about them, their history and the folklore surrounding them....

My mum has a white NFC but he is deaf. Funny when ...

2011-04-01T19:52:33.529-07:00

My mum has a white NFC but he is deaf. Funny when he wants your attention... he yells at you or bites :-) I don't know how he got to Australia but he was found in a pet shop with his bro.

I have the most beautiful creature I've ever s...

2011-02-03T20:42:29.377-08:00

I have the most beautiful creature I've ever seen that I adopted from the shelter. He was born at my vet clinic to a mother that was brought in with a gun shot wound. Mother recovered and had the kittens. I do not know that he could be pure bred anything, but he is the sweetest, most loving cat we have ever owned (or, as they say owned us). He is quite large, solid white, pointed chin and thick LONG white hair that forms a mane framing his sweet face. I love him so much. How do you distinguish the maine coon, NFC, and the siberian?

I'm pretty sure I have a Norwegian Forest Cat ...

2010-11-15T12:46:13.266-08:00

I'm pretty sure I have a Norwegian Forest Cat at home. I thought that he was a Maine Coon for the longest time but now I'm not so sure. He's all white and simply beautiful, he's a little overweight (22 pounds) but he's a big baby and loves attention. He especially loves cuddling us as much as he can.

just so amazing these felines are grand species of...

2010-10-02T17:18:25.077-07:00

just so amazing these felines are grand species of felis domesticas , and im so proud to own one ,, !

Thanks Pablo for your input. Sorry it took me mont...

2010-07-15T00:24:19.288-07:00

Thanks Pablo for your input. Sorry it took me months to get back!

You speculate that the US nickname "wegie&quo...

2009-10-18T14:52:53.221-07:00

You speculate that the US nickname "wegie" is something to do with the word "wedge" - but I think it's simply a shortening of "Norwegian" ....
thanks for the site - we have a lovely NFC!
Pablo

Hi thanks. This is blogger sub-domain to the main ...

2009-06-25T03:41:22.224-07:00

Hi thanks. This is blogger sub-domain to the main site. It never really took off so I am letting it drift. Thanks for the comment though. The main site get more comments! It is here:

Pictures of Cats

I can't beleive there are no comments here. Th...

2009-06-25T02:23:33.615-07:00

I can't beleive there are no comments here. These cats are so beautiful. The links at the left that let veiwers look at the different breeds are great. Nice web site. My sympathies for Missie are with you. It's difficult to lose a beloved pet.