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Echo (also known as Willem de Kooning) is a friendly and relaxed polydactyl boy. He will excitedly follow you around and gets along with other animals, including dogs!
It is one of my life goals to some day adopt a polydactyl cat. Polydactyl cats often times have a difficult time finding homes! People find their extra toes distasteful or assume the cats will have health problems (which is untrue with very rare exceptions!) Sailors considered them to be good luck and Earnest Hemingway was a great lover of polydactyl cats, earning them the nickname “Hemingway cats.”
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I have a polydactyl cat! He’s turning… 13 in the spring I think? No major health issues to date. He has 27 toes.
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