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Otterly said:
Absolute unit. Can we get a picture of the toes?
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Best I've got right now.

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Otterly said:
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And adorable. Toes on toes indeed. She looks like she’s a cuddler
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Also known as "Thumb cats" since their type of polydactylism appears as a branching "thumb" presentation, usually with no change in the morphology of the back feet. In comparison to the "multiplicative" polydactyl type where they have no thumbs and just have many more typical toes on all four feet. The multiplicative type is very interesting since it is likely involving an "anticipation" repeat mutation because once it appears, each successive generation along the same family line will have more toes.

@The Dude's cat is even more unusual since she has blue eyes, indicating at least part Siamese-type ancestry. A very unusual combo to have, the thumb type polydactyl gene and the blue eye gene, in a single cat. Quite rare.
 
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And adorable. Toes on toes indeed. She looks like she’s a cuddler
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She can be, but she's the least sociable of our three cats, and our only female cat. Our other two cats are males, a Sphinx (possibly crossed with Rex since he has a little bit of short, soft, curly hair), and a Marble Bengal mix who has really soft fur, more like a rabbit pelt. Both males are very friendly and sociable. Oddly enough, all three love to have their tummies rubbed, but Yeti especially. She immediately starts purring and making biscuits in the air with her big murder mittens. Our Sphinx is named Archie, and we call him Crackhead because of the odd things he does. Archie likes to be rough housed with. Literally loves to get smacked around, pet really rough, picked up and given pink bellies. Not, like, HARD, as in hard enough to hurt. But hard enough that it'll move him around.
 
If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, it's time to step up brushing your kitty. This is a PSA mostly to people with shorthair cats, where brushing can easily fall off the list.

I like to explain to her that we're taking off her winter coat~~
 
Aunt Carol said:
If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, it's time to step up brushing your kitty. This is a PSA mostly to people with shorthair cats, where brushing can easily fall off the list.

I like to explain to her that we're taking off her winter coat~~
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Oh I know. I know. You’d think that the thing in my home with most cat hair on it would be the cat, but you’d be wrong….
 
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