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American Longhair was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 30 March 2012 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Maine Coon. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.
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Why?
User:Fringe to be sure that whoever decided that the American Longhair is the same thing as a Maine Coon is either stupid or did heavy research on thousands of other sites on American Longhairs and Maine Coons. Is that person trying to confuse people or what? I remember about having a hard time telling the difference between Asian semi-longhairs and tiffanies and chantillies, and Bambinos and Minskins. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.215.23.203 (talk) 22:26, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Easy to Train?
The article cites an authority as saying they are "Intelligent" and "Easy to Train", but this has not been my experience at all. My experience has been that Maine Coons are very slow-witted compared to other cat breeds, losing interest in games or toys in half a minute or less. Even chasing a laser-pointer only holds their attention for a minute or so before they grow bored and wander off. It has also been my experience that they are extremely aloof and extremely obstinate to the point of repeating activities that directly result in physical injury and pain simply because you told them "no" when you saw them start to do it, and will ignore any and all rewards for positive behavior including food, making them impossible to train in any way. Could we have someone actually verify that this "authority" actually wrote this about Maine Coons? Because seriously, this has NOT been my experience with the breed AT ALL. 67.0.80.4 (talk) 13:09, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Honestly, it sounds like you have had little experience with cats. Maine Coon's are extremely intelligent and easy to train as a rule in comparison to other breeds. I was just hanging around with one today, and in comparison to my cat, he was an Einstein. Have you considered that you might be a dog person? Viriditas (talk) 07:55, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
