OUTRAGEOUS TOE-HAWK ACTION!

by Meg on December 29, 2008

"Hon? the kitteh is sliding along the floor… for some reason, I"m not sure why…!"

Toes

Crystal A., I suggest you git out the clippères…

{ 31 comments }

1 compy-saur 12.29.08 at 8:59 pm

It’s a miracle that kitteh has any traction!!! :-O

2 Posty McPosterton 12.29.08 at 9:01 pm

Is this what “toe-hawk” is? I’d never heard of that until now…

~Dan

3 Juniper Juniper 12.29.08 at 9:02 pm

Um…is it wrong for me to want to stick that paw in my mouf and nom that?

4 Mymsie 12.29.08 at 9:02 pm

I like to call ‘em toe feathers. :)

5 Kerry 12.29.08 at 9:07 pm

Hairy toes is common among breeds of cats that originate in northern climates – protects their delicate paws from the snow.

And it’s darn cute.

6 kibblenibble 12.29.08 at 9:10 pm

Awwww! Fuffertoes!

7 kibblenibble 12.29.08 at 9:20 pm

Awwww! Fuffertoes! :-)

8 kibblenibble 12.29.08 at 9:21 pm

Scuze the delayed hiccup. Not sure what happened there… :p

9 Janet in Cambridge 12.29.08 at 9:21 pm

Can you cornrow that paw-hair?

10 beaufolo 12.29.08 at 9:24 pm

My new boy Max rocks the toe-hawk on all four paws, baby! :) And he sports a fine orange beard and floofy cataloons. :)

11 marcie 12.29.08 at 9:29 pm

We call that “Grinchfoot” in our household. :)

12 Skrpune 12.29.08 at 10:17 pm

my dog has floofy feet like that too…it’s awful cute but makes for some awkward walking. He hates hates hates having his feets trimmed, he gets all ticklish!

13 berthaservant 12.29.08 at 10:29 pm

Some cats won’t let you get near their ‘hawks. You just gotta let them grow wild.

14 julie 12.29.08 at 11:10 pm

we call that our cat’s toe-fur. hers is just as long but she hates having it cut.

15 chacha1 12.29.08 at 11:31 pm

hey, wait a minute … has someone been taking pictures of my cat’s feet?? or does he have a twin!?

16 Frankie 12.30.08 at 2:08 am

Our Dot has long toe fur. We call it her “tufts of fluff.” She was a stray, so we don’t know her lineage for sure but our vet said she’s probably at least half Maine coon. She is three times larger than any of our other cats. She also has the world’s biggest, sweetest grin…

17 eikoleigh 12.30.08 at 2:30 am

omg – ! How does this kitty not slip and slide everywhere?? Hilarious!

18 Deana 12.30.08 at 2:58 am

beeyootiful pink beans

19 Deana 12.30.08 at 3:05 am

My first cat Gus had long toe-fur, and he liked to be up high, so of course one day he fell down. Broke a bone in his hand. The vet put a cast on him. Gus got the cast off before he was even ready to go home. So the vet put another one on him. Gus got that one off too, within a half hour. Finally he came home with a cast up around the bend of his elbow, well into his armpit. Didn’t get that cast off, but he kept trying, wore away the fur at the top of the cast, so we had to put an Elizabethan collar on him, poor love. All for one teeny broken bone in the middle of his hand

20 chanpon 12.30.08 at 3:11 am

Actually the cats DO slip and slide everywhere. :p It’s kind of funny actually, because I have one very athletic cat, and the other with the toehawks will sometimes try to imitate the other, but without much success, because of how little traction he gets with the toehawks.

21 blubbernutter 12.30.08 at 3:49 am

Juniper I feel the same way you do. I would nom those pink beans no matter how stinky they may be! I can’t resist me some kitteh piggeh toes!

22 POSTY MCPOSTERTON 12.30.08 at 5:27 am

Funny… never heard of “toe hawk” or “grinchfoot” before today… :-D

~Dan

23 MichieGrl 12.30.08 at 6:04 am

I have a Maine Coon and she totally has the toe ‘hawks! I see no need to trim them, but I totally indulge in nomming them from time to time, and she lets me! However, she does not enjoy the toe ‘hawk fur being tickled. My husband says it is mean… but it is just sticking out there!

24 Molly 12.30.08 at 9:12 am

TUFTY!!!!

25 burghgal 12.30.08 at 1:20 pm

awww.. my late kitty Jax had toe floofage like that.. :(

26 Lerrinus 12.30.08 at 2:24 pm

*tickles toebeans* :-)

27 Charlie 12.30.08 at 5:23 pm

greenchfeets hehe =^-^=

28 Babs 12.30.08 at 8:23 pm

Hmmm, I don’t know, kinda looks like extensions.

29 Katrina 12.30.08 at 9:18 pm

Killer Corgi’s toes have wonderful long fur, but then she goes outside and yeaeaeaeaccch-I don’t want to touch THEM at all. Nosireebob.
That one time I bathed her was fun, though-heheheheh. Yeah it tickles like crazy apparently. Oh, well, once was enough I guess.

30 Tz'unun 12.31.08 at 7:31 am

Among my kinfolk, those are known as “twinklies.”

31 VRL 01.07.09 at 12:44 am

This is my first comment ever ever on any site. But I had to break my silence to to say that we call those “speed tufts” on our Persian and Himalayan (because it makes them look like they’re going fast). And we were very upset when the groomer trimmed them off once. It took a long time for them to grow back, and we’re so glad they did. Nothing cuter than little pink paw pads with speed tufts.

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