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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 !
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 ?
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
I think there is a case AGAINST having thumbs! I like my paws just the way they are.
That’s a good reason : our paw print makes a such pretty flower ! Purrs
Humans are good for loves, all the pets and scritches we can get. Yes, the humans still need to do the box duties.
I like the idea of texting and opening the fridge! Love, Cody
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!
That’s a beautiful shot of you, Pixie. No matter why, I’m glad you kitties keep us humans around 😉
We see no need for opposable thumbs. This is why we have human servants!
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 ! ♥♥♥☺☺☺
You don’t need thumbs, us human slaves will do everything for you cuties.
I don’t know. If I had thumbs then someone might expect me to do some actual work!
We didn’t think of it ! Purrs
It’s fun to think about the possibilities, isn’t it?
Mes likes your suggestions!!!
Mes would LOVES to has thumbs! Mes could do so many things that mes has to waits for my human to does for mes.
But mes doesn’t so mes will has to just dream….
Oops, mes hit Post Comment BEFORE mes sended Kisses!
Many Kisses
Nellie
All we can think ’bout is da fotos we could take of mommy. MOL Big hugs
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena
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))))
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.
I’d open all the treats I could and hide them for later!
Have a super weekend…
Noodle and crew
We might have to learn to clean our litter boxes. We don’t want to chance THAT!
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
I would be finally capable to hold that mouse of the computer…YES for thumbs 😀 Double Pawkiss tot the both of you 🙂 <3
If I had thumbs, I wouldn’t have to open the treat bags with my teeth. Love, Lexy
Pretty sure we could take over the world if only we had opposable thumbs!
If cat had thumbs they would rule the world 🙂
of course, if Faraday had thumbs, he’d confiscate the TV remote from daddy …. MOL!
We prefer to be waited on hand and — err — paw!