This can be a bit of a tight squeeze so they have to be ready to get to their prey quickly! They use their webbed feet to scoop dirt away and dig themselves into the badger’s tunnels. Dachshunds are known for hunting badgers. However, that’s not the primary use for their webbed appendages. Some popular dogs that have webbed feet include:ĭachshunds - While you may not associate these pups with being strong swimmers many of them enjoy it. The webbing can help them get more powerful in the water, but it’s also good for helping dogs walk in muddy areas (like near water) or even for digging (just hopefully not in your backyard or garden). The dogs that do have webbed feet for their entire lives are strong swimmers. Many breeds grow out of this feature as they get bigger. You might be shocked to learn that all dogs are born with webbed feet but not all pups keep them for their entire lives.
But surprise, some dog breeds also have webbed feet! So, leave the article or edit it, either way it’s still very informative and the minor errors, barely noticeable reading that is,) given the general standard of authorship on the Internet, even with short sentences and few commas, it’s still very readable too, Imo.When you think of webbed feet you probably think of ducks, not dogs. It’s also quite obvious that the “Cat paw” comment was not directed personally and perhaps you should’ve read the reply again until you’d understood that, Or before calling out the commentor as ‘…rude.’Īside from the subsequent I believe you wrote an incredibly informative piece, on a topic it’s hard to find a lot of data on, especially if one’s cat has toes that are obviously webbed and said cat doesn’t appear ‘polydactyl’ when you Google the condition, lol. However if u start reading from ur second paragraph onward, u’ll perhaps notice a couple on ur own b4 uv even finished said paragraph, (clue 1 = It, for ‘Is,’ which are probably more typos than real errors.)Ī general rule on commas is to insert where ur speech in a sentence pauses (even if brief.) Or that was how I was educated in my primary school, many, many, moons ago, in fact, a quarter of a century before the new millennium, so perhaps those grammatical formalities are a little Dated. If I were a book editor that proof-read ur column, (I know, I wrote ‘ur,’ it’s proof I’m no spelling/grammar nazi lol. Wild Cats of the World page 242.ĭon’t thank Frances so easily, unless for the sake of civility. Have a feel or look sometime and leave a comment… You don’t see references to a cat’s webbed feet very often but they are ‘standard’ and part of the domestic cat’s anatomy. It would be poor evolution if the cat lost the ability to negotiate water to catch prey species. Wild cat hybrids usually like water.Ī cat is able to negotiate and travel on dry land and water because it is part of surviving. The domestic cats has distanced him/herself from his wild cat ancestor and so some cats aren’t that fond of getting wet but all domestic cats are decent if not good swimmers when called upon to swim. The general consensus is that domestic cats don’t like water but this is incorrect. Webbing between the toes presents a larger surface against which the water is pushed. The small wild cats need to get into water sometimes and catch prey. Nature gave all wild cats webbed feet because prey is often near water courses. This small wild cat has a very wide distribution on the planet and therefore lives in a variety of habitats including wetlands and rivers (e.g in Botswana). The African – Asian wildcat is the wild cat ancestor of the domestic cat. Picture of a domestic cat showing webbed feet.
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