What if cats had opposable thumbs

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Today, it’s a special day again which celebrates this existential question :

What if cats had opposable thumbs ?

It would be great ! We could open our food cans and packagings without depending on our human (Zorro is quite excited just imagining it), we could open the faucet to drink, we could open the fridge, and we could send texts to all our pals.
Moreover, we already have a pal who has thumbs (but not opposable) : our friend Ernie from The Island Cats !
What if cats had opposable thumbs

In this case, would it be judicious to forgo humans ?

No, of course ! They would continue to be very useful to empty our box, run errands, and be our private secretaries. And who would give us cuddles if they were not there any more ?

26 thoughts on “What if cats had opposable thumbs

  1. Mickey's Musings

    We agree that having opposable thumbs would be pawsome.
    Our Georgia has thumbs too.
    However, we do love the company of humans.
    They do give great scritches and belly rubs 😉

    Purrs Georgia,Julie and JJ

  2. Mariodacat

    I think we should keep the humans on anyway for all hte heavy duty work – I can’t open hte litter boxc and pour it into the pan – it’s just too heavy. And, and, and, and, and, well there must be other reasons but I just can’t think of them now. Oh someone has to shop for our food!

  3. da tabbies o trout towne

    guyz…inn deed it wood be grate; think oh de callz we could make on
    de cell ewe lar; we could hand de teller at de bank a chex.. N say give uz
    cash for thiz, we could hold a pizza pie correct lee….yea, de list goez on !
    🙂

    heerz two a slender snipe eel kinda week oh end ! ♥♥♥☺☺☺

  4. easy rider

    it’s better to have no thumbs… humans mostly hurt their thumbs while maneuvering knives and sharp things… and that probably means they also should have none :ol))))

  5. Marg

    WE kind of like that the humans do all the work for us, so we really don’t have to have thumbs. So we are fine without those thumbs.

  6. meowmeowmans

    It’s true, even if we had thumbs, we’d probably keep our humans around. They’re good for love and scritches and other good stuff. 🙂 – Gracie and Zoe

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