So.

[yendi]

If your cat somehow managed to develop opposable thumbs, do you think that he or she would really let you know?

Just keep an eye on the felines, is all I'm saying.

Comments

[mycroftca.livejournal.com]

Of course not. Cats are secretive, and hide their capabilities. Though we have one cat who when she was younger used to wait on top of the refrigerator to jump onto the island only when someone was walking past, so she could startle them as she flew past their nose...

[yendi]

Of course not. Cats are secretive, and hide their capabilities.

Exactly. So if our cats have figured out how to turn a doorknob, they won't do it while we're around. Which is why I told shadesong that we need to be extra careful. Just in case.

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a well established fact that mankind evolved opposable thumbs so that it could play funk bass. And it's not too much of a stretch to notice the similarities between bass the instrument and bass the fish. And cats like fish. Ergo... Fluffy's going to funk you up!

[zarq.livejournal.com]

Nah.

But the signs would be there. The fridge would be filled with empty containers and the bird would be missing.

[litch.livejournal.com]

Of course they would let us know, and I for one will be one of the first to welcome our new feline overlords.

[rafaela.livejournal.com]

You're kidding, right?

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

I think Mao would have let slip by opening a door. He kept trying without thumbs and we'd stand there "You go Mao! you work that evolution!" Mao hated us sometimes.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

I had a cat with opposable thumbs- "polydactyl", they called it- and he didn't let on. Althogth he was very capable of things like can-opening, should he so choose.

*scared*

[cieo.livejournal.com]

Henh? Random thought?

[harold3.livejournal.com]

Sure thing Spazz'd let me know, I'd realize it the moment he would probably put my own gun to my head and mewl gently into my ear that if I didn't get him catnip and some slim jims (don't ask, my cat loves slim jims) he would lovingly clean my brain pan out with high velocity lead and then play with the mucus so he could at least get some entertainment value out of me.

[gutman.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs is the only thing keeping cats from achieving world domination.

[melvh.livejournal.com]

Like cissa, I too had a cat with opposable thumbs. Two of them, in fact. Chang used his for balance, but Eng would actually pick things up.

I always said making pop-top tuna cans would be the end of the Human Age of Earth.

[firebreathnchkn.livejournal.com]

If they had opposable thumbs they would find power tools and we would find everything taken arpart just in case there was a yummy bird inside. TVs, cars, computers, sofas, everything.

[fnordess.livejournal.com]

My cat used to turn the knob on my bedroom door right in front of me.

[windswept.livejournal.com]

Yes. A friend's polydactyl cat with what were essentially opposable thumbs used to open door handles. The round ones.

*boggle*

[windswept.livejournal.com]

Icon love.

[firebreathnchkn.livejournal.com]

My friend Bertha http://bertha79.livejournal.com/ made that.

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

I have a cat with opposable thumbs. Which she uses to grab toys and improve her balance when walking on the railing.

I can't get too worried about world domination when I watch her licking lint off the living room rug, though.

[yendi]

Heh. Good point. Jack doesn't have opposable thumbs, but has figured out that he can grab things with both paws (and secure them with his claws). And he still focuses on things like sniffing his brother's butt and chasing fake furry mice, so I guess we're probably safe.

[yendi]

There've been times when I think my cats wanted to do that, even without the power tools.

[yendi]

Nah. As long as the machines that make the pop-top tuna cans are still too complex, we'll be safe.

[yendi]

My sentiments exactly!

[yendi]

Yup. :-)

[yendi]

But you were just encouraging him!

[firebreathnchkn.livejournal.com]

Was there a yummy bird inside?

[windswept.livejournal.com]

She is very talented.

[phantom_wolfboy]

See, you're assuming that the cats would think ahead. I put it to you, when did your cats last show the slightest bit of concern for the future. It would go, "We're here, Tuna's here, we have thumbs . . . human's gotta go!"