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Patty Cake - 15 Sep 2005 23:30 GMT

I know a guy that has a cat called Six Toes. Of all the cats I have had in
my life I've never had one with extra toes. His cat is even more unusual in
that it has 7 toes on both front feet and 6 toes on each back foot, that's 7
extra toes for a total 25!

Anyone else here have cats with extra toes? :)

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Ted Davis - 16 Sep 2005 01:07 GMT

>I know a guy that has a cat called Six Toes. Of all the cats I have had in
>my life I've never had one with extra toes. His cat is even more unusual in
>that it has 7 toes on both front feet and 6 toes on each back foot, that's 7
>extra toes for a total 25!
>
>Anyone else here have cats with extra toes? :)

Do a Google search on this pattern

polydactyl cats

I had Sebastian for a while
(<http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/tdavis/cats/sebo.1.html>), then I gave
him back to the woman who rescued him in the first place. The page
has closeups of front and rear feet.

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T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu)

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MaryL - 19 Sep 2005 02:22 GMT

>I know a guy that has a cat called Six Toes. Of all the cats I have had in
>my life I've never had one with extra toes. His cat is even more unusual
>in that it has 7 toes on both front feet and 6 toes on each back foot,
>that's 7 extra toes for a total 25!
>
> Anyone else here have cats with extra toes? :)

It's not all that unusual, and it normally does not present a problem for
the cat. There is even a large colony of polydactyl cats on Cuba which are
known as "Hemingway cats" because author Ernest Hemingway had some
polydactyls, and these are supposedly descendants of his cats.

MaryL

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MaryL - 19 Sep 2005 02:29 GMT

>>I know a guy that has a cat called Six Toes. Of all the cats I have had
>>in my life I've never had one with extra toes. His cat is even more
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>
> MaryL

Ooops! The Hemingway cats are on Key West, not Cuba (although Hemingway did
also have a home on Cuba).

MaryL

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