On Friday, August 2, 2019 at 1:07:33 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-08-02 1:58 p.m., wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:14:22 -0700 (PDT), "
>
> >> Maybe he was a Maine Coon or a Norwegian Forest cat?? They get to be large
> >> bruisers but oh so gentle.
> >
> > He was a plain ole ginger tabby, far more affectionate than this
> > female I have now.
> >
>
> We had a ginger tabby male. He was a good sized cat. He used to sleep on
> under the hood of our vehicles. One time I started my pickup and he let
> out a yowl went running off with no tail. It was the middle of winter
> and there was no worry about infection. but the end of his stubby tale
> turned black. We had a drunken retired half blind vet across the street
> who told me that he had seen a lynx. I tried to tell him it was our tom
> cat, but he insisted it was a lynx.

That's interesting. Those cats must find car engines to be quite comfortable on cold nights. My guess is that's what happened to the cat that adopted us. He's supposed to be a male but beats me how you can tell.

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