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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / May 2004Too Many Toes or Feet
We were over at my sister's house today and they have a kitten that is of the orange tabby persuasion. He has two paws on each front foot. It is the most unusual thing I've ever seen. He has two front feet with 5 toes on each foot. Then on the inside of the two front feet he has two smaller feet. The two smaller feet have three toes on each of them. When I can, I will take a picture of him and his 6 feet and place a link to it on this group. When he walks and grabs things his feet look like chameleon feet. Anyone ever seen anything like this? One time I saw some cats that had 7 toes on each front foot, but nothing like this. John > We were over at my sister's house today and they have a kitten that is of > the orange tabby persuasion. He has two paws on each front foot. It is the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > John My daughter has a cat like that. I'd never seen anything like it either. It's almost as though she has opposable thumbs. If she weren't so terribly shy and skittery, she could accomplish all sorts of things. Joy > My daughter has a cat like that. I'd never seen anything like it > either. It's almost as though she has opposable thumbs. If she > weren't so terribly shy and skittery, she could accomplish all sorts > of things. With opposable thumbs, she might even be able to open her own cat food. Perhaps this is the next stage in cat evolution, God help us when they don't need us to handle the tin opener ;-)  SignatureNik Simpson >> We were over at my sister's house today and they have a kitten that is >of [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > >Joy All the poly cats I've known have been very assertive with their extra toes. They waved their paws around all the time trying to catch stuff. Theresa My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ >All the poly cats I've known have been very assertive with their extra >toes. They waved their paws around all the time trying to catch >stuff. > >Theresa They also become very adept at opening cabinet doors. Yoda is very tall, and stands on his back feet wraps those paws around the doorknob and tries to turn it. But the cutest thing is, if he's asleep, you can touch the pad of his foot, and he wraps those toes around your finger, just like a baby's fingers. I love playing with those feet. Sherry >>All the poly cats I've known have been very assertive with their extra >>toes. They waved their paws around all the time trying to catch [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >Sherry Yoda is a cutie. Theresa My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ > They also become very adept at opening cabinet doors. Yoda is very > tall, and stands on his back feet wraps those paws around the doorknob > and tries to turn it. But the cutest thing is, if he's asleep, you can > touch the pad of his foot, and he wraps those toes around your finger, > just like a baby's fingers. Be very afraid. :) That sounds adorable, but those very prehensile feet will enable him and cats like him to attain the ultimate cat goal, and we all know what that is! Joyce >Be very afraid. :) That sounds adorable, but those very prehensile feet >will enable him and cats like him to attain the ultimate cat goal, and we >all know what that is! > >Joyce Yeah, I have a feeling as soon as the Yo-Man learns to open a cat food can, it's all over. Sherry > > They also become very adept at opening cabinet doors. Yoda is very > > tall, and stands on his back feet wraps those paws around the doorknob [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Joyce I thought my friend's master, Timmy, achieved it when he was waving a polydactyl paw around one evening when she had company, and managed to snag her slip and yank it down around her ankles. Theresa My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ > I thought my friend's master, Timmy, achieved it when he was waving a > polydactyl paw around one evening when she had company, and managed > to snag her slip and yank it down around her ankles. Hmm... I wonder what his motives were? I guess it depends on who the company was. If it was someone she was dating, perhaps Timmy was trying to speed things along? Whereas if it was an important business client, maybe he was playing a practical joke on her - or it could have been his way of saying that she worked too hard, and needed to be home with him more. The possibilities are endless... Joyce >We were over at my sister's house today and they have a kitten that >is of the orange tabby persuasion. He has two paws on each front [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >John Well, a couple of months ago there was the discussion about the German kitten with four ears. The web link is no longer active, but you can find the discussion in Google by looking for message id <kb17605mm1ak0g6h45fgmee1f2nc3mradj@4ax.com>, which started the thread. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria >We were over at my sister's house today and they have a kitten that is of >the orange tabby persuasion. He has two paws on each front foot. It is the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >John On Google, research polydactyls >Anyone ever seen anything like this? One time I saw some cats that had 7 >toes on each front foot, but nothing like this. I've seen cats with 6-7 toes on each regular paw. I've also seen cats that seem to have two paws on each leg, a big paw and a little paw. It's called polydactylism, many digits. I think the record is 28 toes. Does your cat have more than this? He could set a record. |
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