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Asked by drstilesjlstermerrygold98 to Damien, Rachael, Suzi, Tim on 22 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by eleanormulligan123.
Question: why dont cats have thumbs? :'(
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Tim Fosker answered on 22 Jun 2011:
Hi @by drstilesjlstermerrygold98
I’m afraid I’m not sure why, but I think it is a good thing that they don’t, if they did you would never be able to keep them from eating all the food in the house 🙂
Also surely the shape of cat claws has got to be better for climbing and catching small animals than having a human thumb 🙂
What do you think?
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Suzi Gage answered on 22 Jun 2011:
Hi @drstiles
Are you thinking about that terrifying advert?I’m really glad cats don’t have thumbs!!!
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themysteriousmugenpanther commented on :
i wish they did. i dont have a cat but they seem to like lying around a lot. maybe theyre wishing they had thumbs and what they would do next…
Tim commented on :
You may be right. I’m sure if my old cat had thumbs she would have got up to even more mischief that she did. 😀
Suzi commented on :
In the wild, they wouldn’t need thumbs, so I guess this is why they don’t have them. Now we keep them in houses surrounded by ‘human’ things, I guess thumbs would be more useful for them – but most cats in my neighbourhood seem quite content without thumbs, leaping on my car and making footprints down the windscreen, doing their business in my vegetable patch, and making me jump when I step out of my front door and there’s one sunning himself on my front porch! (he is pretty cute though)
smileyface123 commented on :
haha it would be pretty funny/weird if they did (@suzi do you mean the cravendale ad?) and the answers are really good too 😀
Suzi commented on :
Yeah! It scares me!!!