Talk:Polydactyl cat

message: I once met a cat with double paws. How is this related to feline polydactyly? Would this merit a separate article, or a section in this article?
--B.d.mills 00:12, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be an extreame case of polydactylism. One of my girlfriends had a cat named Chernobyl, because he had 8 toes per paw. It looked like he had double paws, but this was not the case, just DOUBLE-SIZED ones.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 06:15, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double paw cats 

message: :I've removed "Polydactyly is an ancient trait": whether it was a reference to discredited atavism or a covert reminder of Devonian Acanthostegia, it conveyed little useful information. Perhaps it could be returned in a better form. The "opposable thumb" and reported dexterity of polydactyl cats might be cautiously looked into and expanded. They weren't employed in sewing patches on sails, one supposes, nor opening hard-to-manage cellophane packets of seabiscuit... --Wetman 00:20, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I can vouch for that firsthand, actually.  My wife's polydactyl cat could pick up pencils with his front paws.  Never saw him write with them, though... - Scooter 04:19, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right. I reworked it for grammar. "When Hemingway died in 1961, as provided in his will, his former home in Key West, Florida became a museum and currently houses approximately sixty descendants of his cats (about half of which are polydactyl)." Thanks. Vaoverland 09:48, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: "ancient trait"

message: I once saw an orange tabby polydactyl cat (named Snowshoe) that had eight toes. Is this enough evidence to up the number of possible toes? --Dblomgren 06:09, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've seen a few cases (with pictures) of at least three cats with 18 to 24 toes on each front paw. That many toes comprised almost 270 degrees of a circle. I'll try to find the links...  Kel - Ex-web.god 21:25, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Up to eight toes? 

message: Both the number and placement of all the photos on this page is really getting out of hand! I've created a proper gallery, into which we could move the three male cat photos, where they could join the three female cat photos. The Hemingway cat photo strikes me as the one that should be used predominately in this entry. Its technical and compositional quality and the clarity of the cat's polydactyly make it a clear choice for me. Your thoughts? --Martinship 07:28, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  Although I'm perhaps biased since I took the photo.   -   Marc Averette 18:59, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos, photos, photos! 

message: I've been bold and started to clean up the article:
*As previously discussed, all but one photo has been removed from the article text and added to an image gallery.
*The article's paragraphs and sentence structure have been rearranged.
*The article now has two text sections in addition to the catchall introductory section.
I hate the dreaded cleanup tag, so there isn't one, but this article still needs more work. I'm done for today, but I might revisit this article in the future. Please revert with care, but feel free to modify my changes. Thanks for your help! --Martinship 07:37, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Cleanup Underway 

message: Why is there an article about polydactyl cats? Is there an article about polidactilia for every animal??
*Polydactyl cats had a special role in multiple aspects of history (I'm assuming you've read the article and other content you can find on Google), unlike most or all other polydactyl creatures. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-10-09 19:19Z
::Polydactyl humans have had a special role in history, and yet that information is merged into the main article.  tangent: my sister has a polydactyl cat and named her sissy hankshaw, how funny is that? -- AvatarMN (talk) 19:26, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bumping topic 

message: This article contradicts what's said in the article about Hemingway's key west home. Which is the truth?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunnan (talk • contribs) 08:41, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

message: The article name was reverted to "Polydactyl cat" after it was changed to "Hemingway cat". The current name is more descriptive and encyclopedic, and is more in line with the text throughout the article. Please discuss proposed page moves in order to prevent unnecessary reverts.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 07:43, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: How common or uncommon is polydactylyism in domestic cats? What about non-domestic ones (e.g., lions)? 188.18.187.209 (talk) 12:08, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frequency of polydactylyism 

message: I've taken out the following paragraph
In February 2011, the British brand of milk Cravendale produced a TV advert and a related social media campaign featuring CGI cats with opposable thumbs ganging together to steal the product from an unsuspecting human. The advert, titled Cats with Thumbs with Tim Curry as the narrator, garnered nearly seven millions views on YouTube and was voted as the funniest commercial on the TV countdown special TBS's Funniest Commercials of the Year 2011.
This obviously is primitive Anthropomorphism and has nothing to do with cats being polydactyl.
--BjKa (talk) 11:04, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: On the contrary, the absence of the Cravendale campaign here clangs like a gong. It's nothing short of the most prominent mention of thumb cats in popular culture, and the source of many people's awareness of their existence. That, and the Hemingway connexion, both need to be grouped under a "Polydactyl Cats in Popular Culture" rubric. Anything less falls short of adequately covering the topic. Laodah 06:51, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cravendale 

message: If no one objects, I will change the wording of the genetic section.  As a graduate student in Biology who if fairly well versed in genetics, I can barely understand the statements being made.  Benauxier (talk) 19:49, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewording the genetic section 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: We need to say that, but need a source for it. Right now, we're implying that up to seven toes per paw is "common" when this isn't really the case.  The one source for this is weak and badly over-stating the commonness of multiple extra toes per paw.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  11:40, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a source for this? The current source [4] does not reference any academic articles, and appears to be clickbait. LetThereBeNick (talk) 01:17, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  One extra toe per front paw is the no. 1 most common form 

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