Domestic Cats Can Be Left Or Right-handed, Say Scientists

[Bombay Bad Boy]

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[bluemonday]

The relentless march of scientific knowledge.

 

Where will it all end I wonder?

 

Perhaps the next 'breakthrough' will look at left and right handed atributes in mice?

 

Then dogs.

[Amadeus]

Mine's ambidextrous - and she says all cats knew that anyway.

[Minxie]

I did know that. Do you remember the advert for a particular cat food (can't remember the brand), where Arthur the white cat used to sit and eat out of the tin with his paw? Well apparently he was left handed (pawed) so when they replaced him when he retired, they had to find another white cat that was also left pawed.

[manx-person]

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Have I missed something here? I didn't know cats had hands

[Mr. Sausages]

I did know that. Do you remember the advert for a particular cat food (can't remember the brand), where Arthur the white cat used to sit and eat out of the tin with his paw? Well apparently he was left handed (pawed) so when they replaced him when he retired, they had to find another white cat that was also left pawed.

 

I thought they had to re-train the new cat to use his left paw instead of his right. Probably would have been easier to have a mirror image of the film (with the label printed in reverse).

[Minxie]

I thought they had to re-train the new cat to use his left paw instead of his right.

That could have been it, I just remember that 'Arthur' was left handed/pawed.