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A polydactyl cat is a cat with a congenital physical anomaly called polydactyly (or polydactylism, also known as hyperdactyly), a type of cat body type genetic mutation, that caused the cat to be born with more than the usual number of toes on one or more of its paws. Cats with this genetically inherited trait are most commonly found along the East Coast of the United States and inSouth West England.
Nicknames for polydactyl cats include “boxing cats”, “mitten cats”, “mitten foot cats”, “Vermont snowshoe cats”,”thumb cats”, “six-finger cats”, “Boston Thumb Cats”, “Cardi-cats”, “Hemingway cats”, and “double-pawed cats”.
One of the many en:Polydactyl cats at en:Ernest Hemingway House in en:Key West, Florida on 2/10/2007. Original uploader was Averette at en.wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Thanks, Ann!
I have the most amazing polydactyl cat you have EVER seen. He is a rescue kitty named Suki. If you see him for the first time he looks like he has boxing gloves.
How darling! Sounds like a fortunate match for and Suki.
Love, Gypsy and Jamie
I hope this works but I have added the link to a picture of Suki. He is precious to me and was even in an area high school theater He played the cat in ‘I remember Mama’. HEW WAS GREAT!!