Call me crazy but I love it. Makes him even more cute!
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That is a lynx.
Hot damn! Those paws are comically big. It's like if a cartoon cat with big feet came to life but kept the disproportionate paws. Awesome!
Just imagine the amount of biscuits Stomp could make. Absolute perfection
I'm proud of y'all for not replying "absolute purrfection"
It's not a pathological defect though? I mean does he have health problems because of his paws?
Polydatctyly (extra toes) is not all that uncommon in cats. As far as I know it doesn't lead to any notable negative outcomes. We had a poly cat (named Poly because that's what the shelter called her) who lived a long and healthy life. Earnest Hemmingway famously kept and bred polydactyl cats at his home in Key West, and if you go visit the staff there still take care of their descendants.
Here's our Poly:
I wanna see the boot not too big for the gd feet!
That cat clearly belongs to Jeff Dabe.
I got my long haired Highlander from a gal at work whose daughter was allergic. Best cat I’ve ever had.
I love stomp
You know what they say about cats with big peets.
They need big cuddles. I'm glad he's got an accomodating home.
are we sure this is a cat and not a young lynx?
It’s a Highlander cat. Natural bobbed tail, curled ears, and polydactyl claws.
Those are very rare. In fact, I'm pretty sure there can be only one.
What? It’s been a crossbreed since like 2004? Unless I’m getting whooshed?
"there can be only one" is a common saying from the Highlander series of movies and TV shows, which refers to an in-universe event where "immortals" (they can be killed by decapitation) feel compelled to "the gathering" and slay each other until the last one receives "the gift".
The series is named "Highlander" because the protagonist in the first movie, Connor MacLeod, is an immortal from the highlands of Scotland and often called "the highlander" by immortals, since he may be living under a different name (because even in fiction paperwork is a bitch).
Outside of the series, "highlander" variants of various games exist which impose a limit of a single instance of a card/token/spell/action where the standard rules have a higher limit or no limit.
seems plausible
At least it's not a young mountain lion...
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with all of these comments talking about this as if it's a real photo and not AI slop looks like complete shit. Are the comments AI generated spam too? Are they just stupid? Am I AI generated spam?
This photo has been around for a few years. It's not AI.
Also my bobtail buddy
Worse than being AI, this is a newish designer breed called a highland lynx, and the polydactyl, curled ear tips, and manx tail are traits they are breeding for.
Unfortunately, its not very ethical to breed for these traits, especially the manx tail, which can cause cats to be born incontinent.
I'd like to believe it's not AI:
I don't think this is AI generated spam. There is apparently a real breed of cat that looks like this. I think you need to be less paranoid, this is lemmy.
Yup no money no karma.
No point in farming nothing.
Polydactyly is not uncommon in feral cats, but I have no information about the provenience of the photo.
I am not AI spam. I am sometimes stupid.
Stomp: "I'll have a rum . . . . And coke."
Bartender: "why the pause?"
Stomp: "Dunno, I've always had them."
Genius
Seems like CatGPT still has trouble drawing paws.
There are actual cats that look like this, so probably it's real. It certainly doesn't seem AI generated to me.
GPTs also don't make images. That's not what Transformers do, and GPT means Generative Pre-trained Transformer. It's diffusion models and variational autoencoders that make images.
It’s a Highlander cat. Natural bobbed tail, curled ears, and polydactyl claws.
I’d adopt this freak show in a second and give him the best home
I'm gonna need another photo before I believe this is real... and I just want another.
We can't see your cat's tail from this one picture. Is it short? Those feet and short tail may make Stomp a Pixie-Bob breed .
Its a highland lynx, which are generally bred to have manx tail.
Fun fact: because of the manx tail, it has a high chance of being incontinent.
Since they’re from the Isle of Man, wouldn’t they be out continent?
Yay
Does that mean hes worth alot of dough?
I am imagining the cat making exaggerated cartoon footstep sounds as it walks
Coconut halves
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