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Happy Stomp (lemmy.world)
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[-] 5parky@lemmy.world 210 points 1 week ago

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

Bartender: "why the pause?"

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

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 84 points 1 week ago

big pause or it doesn't make sense

[-] iamanurd@midwest.social 20 points 1 week ago

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

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago
[-] GasMeterCrasher@lemmy.zip 68 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] potatobro 58 points 1 week ago

Sounds like they need to adopt a different GF

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

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

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Hathaway@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Hathaway@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

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

[-] bss03@infosec.pub 13 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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[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago

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

[-] nick@midwest.social 29 points 1 week ago

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

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 .

[-] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 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!

[-] nsrxn@scribe.disroot.org 21 points 1 week ago

why did you name him stomp

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[-] Pnut@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

That is a lynx.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

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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[-] st33lb0ne@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

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

[-] PyroNeurosis 13 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.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago
[-] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago

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

[-] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 19 points 1 week ago

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

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Not my kitty, but good to know!

[-] GenerationII@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] nick@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] chuymatt@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

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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[-] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

I bet that adorable dude can move.

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

[-] ef9357@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I hope he doesn’t grow into those feet.

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