Sunday, September 03, 2006
Polycats
Hemingway Home in cat fight
Here's a website with photos of Polycats. Those kitties look like they have mittens on their little paws. How cute!
...The reason? The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the author's one-time home in Key West needs a license to exhibit the descendants of the original polydactyl, or extra-toed, cat he is said to have received from a ship captain in the 1930s...I found this in today's paper. Along with the article, they showed a photo of a white kitty drinking out of the kitty fountain(it was once a urinal in a bar). There's also a picture of Ivan, the two-year old orange and white cat, who's scaled the wall five times this year. Ivan's picture shows the paw spread out a bit so the viewer can get an idea of the extra toe(s).
...Herding cats 'It's beyond insane,' said Cara Higgins, the museum's lawyer. 'This is the same agency that quit researching mad-cow disease because of money, yet they have no problem investigating the activities of the Hemingway cats.'...
Here's a website with photos of Polycats. Those kitties look like they have mittens on their little paws. How cute!
