Many imaginative stories exist in regards to the origin of the breed , however exhausting proof is as elusive as a cat at bath time. One story alleges that the breed is a raccoon/domestic cat hybrid, thus the name Maine Coon. Even although each raccoons and Maine Coons have lush, long tails and the tendency to dunk their food into their ingesting water, such a union is biologically impossible. A more imaginative story claims that Maine Coons are descendants of longhaired cats…