Polydactals....msg/pic

Since my post about the kitten ended up drifting to polydactals..I thought I would start a new thread and show off my polydactal girl, Miss Polly Paws!

She's a rescued kitty. She was trapped by our local animal control and was set to be put down, but the officer is a softy and just couldn't do it. I had been in the pound earlier that week and commented on her. I had left my number as I was looking for a friend's missing kitty. He called and asked if I wanted Polly so I raced into town and nabbed her before the vet got there!! She's semi-feral, but she's come a long way since she first arrived here! She's actually quite affectionate at times now.
These are her back paws.
http://www.seemesmile.com/photos4/2359792a.jpg

These are her front paws.
http://www.seemesmile.com/photos4/2359797a.jpg


And finally here's the little beauty herself!

http://www.seemesmile.com/photos4/2359810a.jpg

She's very beautiful. :) None of my cats are polydactals though.

Some very interesting pictures. I had never seen a polydactal before. I learned something today, thanks. She is very pretty. :)

She's lovely. What is your estimate of her breed?

SHe's so pretty. Zasper was a polydactyl. Aren't their big feet so cute.

Wow what a suprise she was! I was looking at those feet expecting a tux or a striped tabby and here she is looking partly Siamese!! :D :D

She is gorgeous. I knew a cat that was a poly but his toes didn't stick out like her front feet; they looked like the back feet. He was also a HUGE cat.. like 25 lbs of pure muscle, so his feet really didn't look all that big. He wore a harness for small-medium size dogs!! :eek: :eek:

What a pretty girl Polly is!! :D

Polly is so sweet, her coloring is so nice and she has the cutest face :)

She's so cute! I love her back feet.

What exactly is a "polydactyl" ??:confused: :confused:

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Originally posted by lut
What exactly is a "polydactyl" ??:confused: :confused:

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It means they have more than the usuall number of toes. I have seen documantation of cats with up to a total of 26 toes..............Just imagine clipping all those nails !!!!!!!!!

As for they super lucky Miss Polly Paws, you have yourself a winner there !!!!!!!!!

I have never had a polydactal or seen one (except in pictures). Aren't they more common in certain parts of the country?

Two of my foster kittens had 24 toes each (7 fore, 5 aft.) The front feet actually had nearly double paws. The entire litter they came from (4, 2 died) were extreme polydactyls, as is their mother.

What a beauty Miss Polly Paws and with her mask already in place! Wow......

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Originally posted by AmberLee
She's lovely. What is your estimate of her breed?

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Thanks, I just call her a siamese mix. My vet says she's a mismarked snowshoe.

Wow! A 'poly' and in a 'doily' pose!

My Snowy has been doing a lot of 'doily' posing lately.


She's gorgeous.

Felicia's mom.

The concentration of 'polys' are in Key West Florida, at the Hemimgway house where I think 70% of the cats are 'poly' I don't know how many total cats there are, right now. Over a hundred... it's a fun place to meet some cats.

And there is a concentration around Boston, that would agree with the theory that some came over around the time of the Mayflower.