If you intend to keep your Maine Coon indoors most of the time, make sure you encourage it to exercise through play at least once a day of 10 or 15 minutes.Ī large indoor cat tree is perfect for Maine Coons to climb and provides a perfect area for scratching and flexing muscles.Ī selection of Maine Coon toys is a must to stop boredom or cat stress from taking hold. The right quantity is important so keep a check on your black Maine Coon’s weight and ensure you provide the correct amount of nutrition to maintain this. Make sure you buy complete cat food designed for the stage of your cat’s life according to its age. Like the other colors, Black Maine Coons need a good quality high-protein diet. To give a black Maine Coon a happy life, be sure to give it plenty of your time every day – not that you’ll be able to resist paying it attention. They love human attention or to live with other cats. Like all Maine Coons, the black Maine Coon thrives better with the company. These will always be a matching black color. Some black Maine Coon cats have very noticeable Lynx tips on their ears. Nose and Paws of Black Maine CoonsĪll black Maine Coons have black nose leather. These are known as vibrissae or tactile hairs and are colored black on solid black Maine Coons. You will notice black Maine Coons do not have eyebrows as such but they do have long hairs above their eyes. These can vary in number and length.Īs with all cats, black Maine Coon whiskers will shed so expect to find them wherever your cat sleeps or grooms. Whiskersīlack Smoke and solid black Maine Coons generally have black whiskers.

Invest in a cat toothbrush and special toothpaste and aim to clean your cat’s teeth every day if you can or at least twice per week. TeethĪs with other coat colors, Black Maine Coon kittens have 26 teeth and adults have 30.Īs for all cats, it’s important to take care of a black Maine Coon’s teeth because they tend to suffer from gingivitis (inflamed gums.) If you have a solid black fluffy cat with blue eyes you can be certain it is not a purebred Maine Coon.Ī black Maine Coon with any amount of white fur can have blue eyes or eyes of different colors, referred to as odd-eyes. The fur can appear matt black on some cats and glossier on others. Some black coats are medium length and some are longer. Every hair is solid black from root to tip. Here’s an explanation of each: Solid Black Maine CoonsĪ solid black Maine Coon has a coal-black coat. There are many beautiful black cat breeds, and I think the Maine Coon is top of the list.Īs well as solid black, and black smoke, there are many other Maine Coons coats that have a certain amount of black fur.

If a Maine Coon kitten has a black smoke coat, where each hair shaft is black at the tip and white at the root, an inhibitor gene must be present to prevent pigment from developing at the base of each hair.

Kittens must also inherit a recessive non-agouti gene (a) to ensure a tabby pattern does not appear.Both parents must carry the dominant black color gene (allele) referred to as B.Two factors determine whether a Maine Coon kitten develops a solid black coat:

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