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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 430225" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p><strong><em>"Currently looking for an all black, male, polydactyl cat. I want extra toes just because ..."</em></strong></p><p> </p><p>Star, what you're looking for is usually referred to as a "Hemingway cat" and there's lots of them in Florida. Supposedly, they are all descendants of three polydactyl cats that were given to Ernest Hemingway by a ship's captain. There's dozens of them that still live on the grounds of his house in Key West. Not all of them have the extra toes though.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hemingway+cats&qpvt=hemingway+cats&FORM=IGRE" target="_blank">http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hemingway+cats&qpvt=hemingway+cats&FORM=IGRE</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://hemingwayhome.com/HTML/main_menu.html" target="_blank">http://hemingwayhome.com/HTML/main_menu.html</a></p><p> </p><p>My daughter has one that she got as a tiny kitten - he's at least twelve years old now. He has two extra toes on the inside of each front paw, like thumbs that are webbed together. He can use them like thumbs too, to pick things up with his paws. His feet are white and with the extra toes, when he puts his weight on those front paws, they spread out and look HUGE and round, like he's wearing catcher's mitts on both feet! He has a very strange personality, sort of Siamese like, and was very mischevious in his younger days. I always called him the "deformed mutant"! He's really big and his back legs are longer than most cats, making his back end much higher than his front end. And when you look at his face from the side, his nose is much longer than other cats. At his age he's slowed down some but he's still wierd. His favorite thing now is to crawl head first in to a clear plastic garbage bag and just sit there all day looking around the room and marveling at how different everything looks that way! He's a strange little guy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 430225, member: 1883"] [B][I]"Currently looking for an all black, male, polydactyl cat. I want extra toes just because ..."[/I][/B] Star, what you're looking for is usually referred to as a "Hemingway cat" and there's lots of them in Florida. Supposedly, they are all descendants of three polydactyl cats that were given to Ernest Hemingway by a ship's captain. There's dozens of them that still live on the grounds of his house in Key West. Not all of them have the extra toes though. [URL]http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=hemingway+cats&qpvt=hemingway+cats&FORM=IGRE[/URL] [URL]http://hemingwayhome.com/HTML/main_menu.html[/URL] My daughter has one that she got as a tiny kitten - he's at least twelve years old now. He has two extra toes on the inside of each front paw, like thumbs that are webbed together. He can use them like thumbs too, to pick things up with his paws. His feet are white and with the extra toes, when he puts his weight on those front paws, they spread out and look HUGE and round, like he's wearing catcher's mitts on both feet! He has a very strange personality, sort of Siamese like, and was very mischevious in his younger days. I always called him the "deformed mutant"! He's really big and his back legs are longer than most cats, making his back end much higher than his front end. And when you look at his face from the side, his nose is much longer than other cats. At his age he's slowed down some but he's still wierd. His favorite thing now is to crawl head first in to a clear plastic garbage bag and just sit there all day looking around the room and marveling at how different everything looks that way! He's a strange little guy. [/QUOTE]
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