bailey, the six-toed catBailey, a semi-Siamese, lives two doors down and regularly checks on the neighborhood residents. She is polydactyl, having six digits on each of her front paws. The condition is a genetic anomaly but doesn't affect her mobility.
Interestingly, about half of the sixty cats at the Ernest Hemingway House and Museum in Key West (a place I'd like to visit) are polydactyl. It seems that a sea captain gave Papa Hemingway a six-toed cat once and the current inhabitants are descendants.
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