I am imagining the cat making exaggerated cartoon footstep sounds as it walks
Coconut halves
I hope he doesn’t grow into those feet.
Ground pounders up and around.
If this is actually your cat, you might get him checked for acromegaly.
Not my kitty, but good to know!
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.
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.
If you are not having a very large stiff drink while you are petting them, you may be doing it wrong!
That’s rad! I want to go there some day exclusively for the cats
Not terribly rad… He was an epic alcoholic
Nonono, I meant to comment on the comment above you. My bad.
I can honestly take or leave Hemingway. I was never particularly a fan of his writing style.
Looks like polydactyly to me, which is not uncommon in cats.
I’m gonna need another photo before I believe this is real… and I just want another.
6 toes on the back paw. Including the “thumb” that’s underneath, that’s 7.
I’m pressing X to doubt on this one
Sounds like they need to adopt a different GF
Right?! I’d go it alone with Stomp by my side.
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It’s a Highlander cat. Natural bobbed tail, curled ears, and polydactyl claws.
Nature is fucking rad
There are actual cats that look like this, so probably it’s real. It certainly doesn’t seem AI generated to me.
GPTs also don’t make images. That’s not what Transformers do, and GPT means Generative Pre-trained Transformer. It’s diffusion models and variational autoencoders that make images.
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To me it looks like they used a bad camera that’s too soft. That’s all. AI images are often sharper and better looking than this if done using a good enough model and techniques.
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I wanna see the boot not too big for the gd feet!
Call me crazy but I love it. Makes him even more cute!
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 .
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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.
Yay
Does that mean hes worth alot of dough?
Since they’re from the Isle of Man, wouldn’t they be out continent?
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills with all of these comments talking about this as if it’s a real photo and not AI slop looks like complete shit. Are the comments AI generated spam too? Are they just stupid? Am I AI generated spam?
Polydactyly is not uncommon in feral cats, but I have no information about the provenience of the photo.
I am not AI spam. I am sometimes stupid.
I’d like to believe it’s not AI:
I don’t think this is AI generated spam. There is apparently a real breed of cat that looks like this. I think you need to be less paranoid, this is lemmy.
Yup no money no karma.
No point in farming nothing.
I mean, it is reposting other peoples’ old content, and there seems to be a lot of that going on here lately. People just like the attention, I guess.
I looked into it a little using TinEye and the image predates generative AI images of this quality. I actually think it’s a photoshopped normal cat; possibly as part of that weird trend of making some small detail of a normal photo look freakish.
Worse than being AI, this is a newish designer breed called a highland lynx, and the polydactyl, curled ear tips, and manx tail are traits they are breeding for.
Unfortunately, its not very ethical to breed for these traits, especially the manx tail, which can cause cats to be born incontinent.
This photo has been around for a few years. It’s not AI.
Also my bobtail buddy
It’s not a pathological defect though? I mean does he have health problems because of his paws?
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:
I saw the Polys at Hemingway House, they all look very normal in comparison to Stomp’s big feet.
Almost all of them were taking naps in plants and under benches
Just imagine the amount of biscuits Stomp could make. Absolute perfection
I’m proud of y’all for not replying “absolute purrfection”
absolute perrfection
listen here u lil shit
Stomp summoned this book from the depths of my memory. Big things in store for those big paws!
“An ‘I can read’ book” yeah why else would you have it then, smartass
/s just in case
I had that book as a kid and I’d completely forgotten about it until now!
I love him
