More about Dexter
May. 26th, 2006 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabDid I mention that Dexter is polydactylic? We're assuming that was why he was given the name he has: he has two "thumbs" on his right front paw. They are right next to each other, and both are functioning digits with fully functioning claws, not just those little extra blobs some animals have. It makes his paw look even more like a mitten than most cat paws do.
He and Pickle have touched noses a couple times now, and traded places on the chair a couple time, though they still aren't staying near each other for more than a second at a time.
We aren't sure Dexter is eating enough. Hard to tell whether he's using his food bowl, or Pickle is snarfing it all. And we've tried offering him some fancier food upstairs in the kitchen, and he won't touch it. Hmmm. Of course, cats are notoriously stubborn.
In other news, there is no other news. I'm reading Allen Steele's Coyote Frontier - I like the series - and read a few murder mystery novellas in a collection called Bark M for Murder.
Edited to add:
And he has an extra toe on each hind foot, too - sort of a thumb. So altogether he has 21 toes - 6 and 5 front, 5 and 5 rear.
He and Pickle have touched noses a couple times now, and traded places on the chair a couple time, though they still aren't staying near each other for more than a second at a time.
We aren't sure Dexter is eating enough. Hard to tell whether he's using his food bowl, or Pickle is snarfing it all. And we've tried offering him some fancier food upstairs in the kitchen, and he won't touch it. Hmmm. Of course, cats are notoriously stubborn.
In other news, there is no other news. I'm reading Allen Steele's Coyote Frontier - I like the series - and read a few murder mystery novellas in a collection called Bark M for Murder.
Edited to add:
And he has an extra toe on each hind foot, too - sort of a thumb. So altogether he has 21 toes - 6 and 5 front, 5 and 5 rear.
