Is your cat left or right pawed?

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My wife noticed that our Bengal Lilia is right pawed and Makena is left pawed.

When playing - Lilia always favors using her right paw to bat at things. If she is playing alone, she always takes the first swat at her toy mouse with her right paw.  Makena is exactly the opposite.

My wife is a lifelong softball player and athlete, so I guess she is more inclined to notice this sort of thing. I could have gone the rest of my life without noticing, but now I wonder how many Right paw verses Left paws there are.

Anybody else ever notice which their cat is?

Lilia - RIGHTY

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Makena - LEFTY

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I've never noticed, but now I'm going to have to get their toys out and see which paw they reach with first.

(This could take some time, I have a lot of them to get through.....)
 
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Mostly south paws in our house. Sylvia Rose is the one who made me notice that cats favour one paw over the other in the first place, as she is so talented with those little fingers of hers. I've read that most cats favour the left.
 
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I'm not sure because I haven't paid that much attention, but I think he's left pawed.

Plus, I think I read something once that said it's more common for boy cats to be lefted pawed, and it's more common for girl cats to be right pawed, but it might have been the other way round.
 
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Interesting. I looked up a few studies on this and it gets more complex than I assumed. A cat might not use the dominant side unless the task is complex. An example that many of the studies refer to is that you might use either hand to open a door, but you will only use your dominant had to write with. So to test a cat properly it has to be with something difficult like fishing a treat out of a hole.

Cassthecatlover - yep, the studies say the girls are almost all right-pawed and the boys are almost all left-pawed. Never dawned on me that someone would do a study on it - LOL -  let alone that it might be gender based!

Link to a study with good references to follow up on (in case you are having trouble falling asleep or you have weird interests like me) http://messybeast.com/paw-dominance.htm

Eric
 
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Bengalcatman said:
Interesting. I looked up a few studies on this and it gets more complex than I assumed. A cat might not use the dominant side unless the task is complex. An example that many of the studies refer to is that you might use either hand to open a door, but you will only use your dominant had to write with. So to test a cat properly it has to be with something difficult like fishing a treat out of a hole.

Cassthecatlover - yep, the studies say the girls are almost all right-pawed and the boys are almost all left-pawed. Never dawned on me that someone would do a study on it - LOL -  let alone that it might be gender based!

Link to a study with good references to follow up on (in case you are having trouble falling asleep or you have weird interests like me) http://messybeast.com/paw-dominance.htm

Eric
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Going to have to see this one myself!

But according to you and the experts, I can safely predict that Jimmu will be a lefty and Duchess a righty!
 
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