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[–] [email protected] 218 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Stomp: "I'll have a rum . . . . And coke."

Bartender: "why the pause?"

Stomp: "Dunno, I've always had them."

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago (1 children)

big pause or it doesn't make sense

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Massive paws would also work if you really exaggerate it. 😉

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm gonna need another photo before I believe this is real... and I just want another.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like they need to adopt a different GF

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Right?! I’d go it alone with Stomp by my side.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

are we sure this is a cat and not a young lynx?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s a Highlander cat. Natural bobbed tail, curled ears, and polydactyl claws.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Those are very rare. In fact, I'm pretty sure there can be only one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What? It’s been a crossbreed since like 2004? Unless I’m getting whooshed?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"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.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am imagining the cat making exaggerated cartoon footstep sounds as it walks

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Just imagine the amount of biscuits Stomp could make. Absolute perfection

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

I’d adopt this freak show in a second and give him the best home

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

I got my long haired Highlander from a gal at work whose daughter was allergic. Best cat I’ve ever had.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

why did you name him stomp

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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 .

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

That is a lynx.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Call me crazy but I love it. Makes him even more cute!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Stomp summoned this book from the depths of my memory. Big things in store for those big paws!

the fire cat

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

You know what they say about cats with big peets.

They need big cuddles. I'm glad he's got an accomodating home.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not a pathological defect though? I mean does he have health problems because of his paws?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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:

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If this is actually your cat, you might get him checked for acromegaly.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Looks like polydactyly to me, which is not uncommon in cats.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not my kitty, but good to know!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Ernest Hemingway used to collect polydactyl cats and now, because of him, there is a abnormally sizable population of polydactyl cats on Key West, FL.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ive been to the Hemingway house 20 or so times now (every year I visit) and it’s great. Now i just go to sit there and pet cats. I don’t even care about Hemingway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you are not having a very large stiff drink while you are petting them, you may be doing it wrong!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Ground pounders up and around.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I bet that adorable dude can move.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I wanna see the boot not too big for the gd feet!

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