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annoyed@net.spammers - 26 Apr 2006 05:28 GMT

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/499288.html
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Kitty has 6 legs to go with 9 lives

By The Canadian Press

EDMONTON If cats always do land on their feet, theres one freaky feline
who has an added advantage.

Willoughby, an affectionate orange tabby being cared for by a private
shelter operator in Edmonton, has six legs and a few extra toes.

"Seeing is believing," says Marjorie Hervey, president of the Hervey
Foundation for Cats.
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There's a photo of the orange tabby on the site. Poor fella! Hopefully
he'll recover well after the leg surgery that's scheduled for him.

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Enfilade - 26 Apr 2006 14:28 GMT

> Willoughby, an affectionate orange tabby being cared for by a private
> shelter operator in Edmonton, has six legs - and a few extra toes.

He's sure got an awful pawful!

The guy who plays Bubbles on Trailer Park Boys has a cat named Vince
the Pince who has a foot that ends in a lobster-claw shape instead of
in a paw with pads. It's his cat, and Vince appeared on an episode
(the Bubbles character talks the judge into letting him take the cat to
jail with him on the pretext that his strange foot makes him unable to
forage for himself in the trailerpark--at the end, Bubbles says that's
a total lie, the cat gets around fine, he just wanted company in jail.
Of course that part is all fictional)

Anyway, IRL, the actor had the cat "appraised" and apparently he's
worth several thousand dollars (because of the abnormality?)

Anyway, Willoughby has Vince the Pince beat TOTALLY.

I'm glad he has a home.

--Fil

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Chakolate - 26 Apr 2006 17:56 GMT

> Anyway, Willoughby has Vince the Pince beat TOTALLY.
>
> I'm glad he has a home.

I wish he had a home where he'd be appreciated for who he is. It sounds
like this surgery is really unnecessary - the cat has lived for a year
without it, why endanger him with cosmetic surgery?

Chak

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Enfilade - 26 Apr 2006 22:44 GMT

> I wish he had a home where he'd be appreciated for who he is. It sounds
> like this surgery is really unnecessary - the cat has lived for a year
> without it, why endanger him with cosmetic surgery?

Well it doesn't say why it's being done.

I can think of one reason though...my friend had a cat who was a pretty
extreme polydactyl....9+ toes per paw...and some of them were tiny,
half-formed toes that still had claws in them. The placement of these
toes was such that the claws did not wear on the ground or the posts,
and ended up growing into his flesh, infecting, hurting, over and
over...He had these mini-toes amputated and now gets along much better
with only 6 or 7 full sized toes (and their accompanying properly
placed claws) per foot.

So if it's something like that, it makes sense. I certainly hope the
owner doesn't prefer a cat with no leg on one side to one with two
minilegs, for vanity's sake, but if it's because the defunct limb is
causing him pain or troubles, then get rid of it.

--Fil

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CatNipped - 26 Apr 2006 22:58 GMT

>> I wish he had a home where he'd be appreciated for who he is. It sounds
>> like this surgery is really unnecessary - the cat has lived for a year
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> --Fil

Me too. He appears to be older than a kitten, and he obviously has managed
to get along this long with the extra legs. I too hope this isn't being
driven by cosmetics.

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badwilson - 07 May 2006 04:03 GMT

>> Willoughby, an affectionate orange tabby being cared for by a private
>> shelter operator in Edmonton, has six legs - and a few extra toes.
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> --Fil

I love Trailer Park Boys! I'd never heard of it because we'd been out
of Canada for so long, but a guy that travels back and forth for work
started bringing DVD's of it over. Dennis and I laughed so hard!
What does that Bubbles guy call his cat? a.s something? I loved it
when he took the cat to jail with him, very cute :-)

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