Are cats right or left "pawed"? Like people are right or left handed?

One of my cats reaches out her paw to us a lot. It seems that it's usually the right paw but I haven't really been keeping a stroke tally! Just curious if anyone knows the answer to this.

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Approximately forty out of every hundred cats are left-pawed, twenty are right-pawed and forty are ambidextrous I noticed when there is something out of the ordinary like, unusual scratching except with the ears, they do use right hind paw for the right ear and the left hind paw for the left ear. I play with my cat Batman a lot. I'll hand him things and he will reach for them with his right hand first.

When he is playing with the round toy that has the ball attached inside it, he always starts with his right hand. Then follows with his left. Then there is the batting back and forth with the ball inside.

When it stops, he will start again with the right hand. It doesn't matter which side of himself he is laying on the floor at the time either. I had another cat that had six toes on each paw.

I called him Fred Astair (famous dancer). I remember, I was writing the one day and he decided to walk across my papers to greet me. Well as cats do, he rubbed against me and was purring.

It wasn't long before he discovered my pen. He grabbed it with both paws to pick it up. Well, with his big toes, he held on to it pretty good.

I was really impressed! When he dropped it, he started to bat it around with his left paw. Then was playing with it using both paws.

Then again, unlike Batman when the pen was still, he started playing with it using his left paw. I find this quite amazing. "Paw Preference in Cats Related to Hand Preference in Animals and Man" by J.

Cole, University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford, England. Professor Cole, he represents the cream of the British intelligentsia and this is his life's work. He is the man who came up with the percentage of left or right handed cats.

1 Approximately forty out of every hundred cats are left-pawed, twenty are right-pawed and forty are ambidextrous .

Approximately forty out of every hundred cats are left-pawed, twenty are right-pawed and forty are ambidextrous.

Anniemdaffodils replied to post #1: 2 So cool you knew the answer to this.

3 Most vertebrates have a preferred side: in quadrupeds, they walk with that leg first. I've even seen implications that insects may show some lateralization, having a preferred side, but I think that requires more brain. It's particularly pronounced in humans because humans have hands, rather than just feet, though you also see it pronounced in other primates.

Having one side specialized for dexterity ("dexter" means "right" in Latin) seems to give some sort of advantage, or it may just be that there isn't room in your brain to make both sides equally dextrous. Cats do exhibit it: you can see it most clearly in slow-motion video of a cat running. The back paws move more or less symmetrically, but they show handedness in the way they use the front paws:istockphoto.com/stock-video-10046753-che... .

Most vertebrates have a preferred side: in quadrupeds, they walk with that leg first. I've even seen implications that insects may show some lateralization, having a preferred side, but I think that requires more brain. It's particularly pronounced in humans because humans have hands, rather than just feet, though you also see it pronounced in other primates.

Having one side specialized for dexterity ("dexter" means "right" in Latin) seems to give some sort of advantage, or it may just be that there isn't room in your brain to make both sides equally dextrous. Cats do exhibit it: you can see it most clearly in slow-motion video of a cat running. The back paws move more or less symmetrically, but they show handedness in the way they use the front paws:istockphoto.com/stock-video-10046753-che....

MorningDew replied to post #2: 4 Well, she is a cat you know. MD;) .

Long ago, cat sitters left my cats alone with Easy Listening on radio ....

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