Pictures Of The Biggest Cat Ever

She was owned by robin hendrickson and was a certified therapy animal and was known as the gentle giants of the cat world.

Pictures of the biggest cat ever. With a rounded appearance and sweet demeanor the siberian was made for cuddles. He weighs 922 pounds 4182 kg. Maine coons are the largest purely domestic breed. Hercules is a liger the hybrid offspring of a male lion and a tigress who lives at the myrtle beach safari wildlife preserve in south carolina.

As one of the biggest domesticated breeds around the maine coon is a beautiful animal. The population of the lions has declined steadily in the african range prompting the iucn to categorize the cat as a vulnerable species while those in india are endangered. So let start meeting the 10 largest and biggest maine coon in the world. Often called the largest cat of all times the american lion or panthera atrox is probably the best known of all prehistoric cats after smilodon.

Weighing up to 159kg 35 lb the cats are more than a handful their fluffy beauty makes them one of the most sought after pets around. Just make sure you make room on your lap for this big cat. But at 922 pounds big is an understatement for the worlds largest living cat according to the 2014 guinness book of world records. With a name like hercules you know hes got to be big.

But theres a wide range of big cat breeds that tend to come in on the larger side. Stewi was 485 inches 123 m long she wins the title for the longest cat in the 2010 guinness. The liger the largest of all known extant felines is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a female tiger. If youve got a huge cat youd like to share with us please add it to this list.

From big cats in the wild and pets performing tricks to the worlds smallest cat and very fluffy felines longest domestic cat ever mymains stewart gilligan aka stewie measured 123 cm 485 in long on 28 august 2010 to make him one of the largest domestic cats ever. It lived in both north and south america from alaska to peru during the pleistocene epoch and went extinct 11000 years ago at the end of the last ice age. Also there are a total of 7 big cats and not 4 cheetahs pumas and snow leopards are the other 3 speciesmoreover the biggest ever big cat caught in the wild was a tiger caught in india in 1967 which weight 389 kgs and this is not unconfirmed as there is documented evidence for this. Starting with the largest based on average weight here are 11 of the biggest domestic cat breeds around.

Savannah cats are the largest breed but many consider them only half domestic because they are a cross breed of siamese cats and wild african serval cats.