My Polydactyls

I have three of these cats.

Two are brothers Mittens and Caz



Peanut Butter I found at a Humane Society. Sick and needing love. He was turned in with that name. He was just out of his cute kitten stage when she gave him over.

They are really cool

Built in snowshoes! Very cute furkids....

So are polydactyls more dextrous with their paws than the average cat, or is that just a story?

I love the orange-spotted boy. That photo would've been perfect for the cats-in-the-sun contest last month.

AWWWWWW, Jill!!!! Mittens, Caz and Peanut Butter are just beautiful :love:! LOOK at the size of those paws. Great for scooping up food or for giving someone a good swat!! :lol3: Very special kitties you have there. :heart3:

Callista said:

So are polydactyls more dextrous with their paws than the average cat, or is that just a story?

I love the orange-spotted boy. That photo would've been perfect for the cats-in-the-sun contest last month.

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My polydactyls aren't anymore aggressive then any others. I don't think it matters about the thumbs and personality.  Mittens, (the one with the thumbs) he is smarter, He thinks. Hates his name. Tries to use his thumbs. Open doors and ripe out screens. He wants outside, real bad.

Feralvr said:

AWWWWWW, Jill!!!! Mittens, Caz and Peanut Butter are just beautiful

! LOOK at the size of those paws. Great for scooping up food or for giving someone a good swat!!

Very special kitties you have there.

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Lol, they have patted my face before. I put trust in their paws and let them. They never took aggressive touch to me. Cats are incredible people, more so than humans are to them.  Except for us who understand

Thank you everyone else for liking my pix. I try not to take up too much interent space and make my pix too large.

Indeed! If a cat scratches you, most of the time it has a darn good reason. The rest of the time it's just mixed signals, like when you can't read the cat's "stop petting me, you big galoot!", but considering that you weigh ten times or more what the cat weighs and speak Cat only as a second language... well, you have to excuse the misunderstandings, really. A few scratches are totally worth it, am I right?

Do you have to clip their claws any more carefully than a typical cat's, or are they pretty much the same in that respect? Can a polydactyl cat wear those little claw covers? Do the extra toes have retractable claws too?

Callista said:

Do you have to clip their claws any more carefully than a typical cat's, or are they pretty much the same in that respect? Can a polydactyl cat wear those little claw covers? Do the extra toes have retractable claws too?

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Mittens and Caz have nails growing in their pads if I don't watch and clip them often.

Peanut, his not so much.

Love those big mitts!

Awwww Love the PolyPaws!!  What sweet babies

PolyPaws, is that what they call them? I call mine dinosaur cats

Dinosaur cats  hehehe   I have just always heard some people refer to them as polypaws so that's just what I say.  I've heard them called Hemingway cats also because of Ernest Hemingways love for the extra toed babies.  If I'm not mistaken I think there is a rescue group or home for Polypawed cats that he started.

7irishkitties said:

Dinosaur cats  hehehe

  I have just always heard some people refer to them as polypaws so that's just what I say.  I've heard them called Hemingway cats also because of Ernest Hemingways love for the extra toed babies.  If I'm not mistaken I think there is a rescue group or home for Polypawed cats that he started.

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His house in Key West is a cat colony with a high percentage of polydactls.  There is also a Hemingway House in Gainesville, Fl that he lived in.  There are many polys in the surrounding neighborhood.

Thanks for the info!  How cool to know that.  I have always loved Hemingway but when I read that he loved and cared for these special babies, it just made me love him even more

7irishkitties said:

Dinosaur cats  hehehe

  I have just always heard some people refer to them as polypaws so that's just what I say.  I've heard them called Hemingway cats also because of Ernest Hemingways love for the extra toed babies.  If I'm not mistaken I think there is a rescue group or home for Polypawed cats that he started.

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My Mother calls them Hemmingway cats. She been down to his house that still have the polys in it...

Most of mine came from my Sister's farm cat. She had a female that threw polys in her litters. She dead now. Life is short when you are a farm cat. I am glad I have three of her sons..