I’ve only seen it on older cats … hmmmmmmm…
LOL…and Boats came from very questionable breeding as he was a shelter kitty. He had his cards stacked against him from the start of very being a being pretty mover. :no:
This is imost noticeable on my fat girl. My vet calls it her “hangy downy part.” There you have the technical, vet-approved, name for this part of the feline anatomy. :winkgrin:
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Have you noticed that cats will choose a crappy little rushed trot as their “get from point A to point B” ground-covering gait of choice? They don’t canter. They certainly don’t lope. They don’t offer a lofty trot. But sometimes you can see a long, relaxed daisy-cutter gait on a cat. Usually the cat needs to be going somewhere distant and believe he is unobserved.
Cats can’t deliver the kind of suspension we value in horses. Totally different design, even with homologous bits of anatomy. To the extent that a cat has a suspensory apparatus, for example, it’s mainly muscle rather than ligamentous.
I bring all this up because the swinging beer gut is the part of the crappy trot that makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit. I’d be grateful if someone would start breeding for some pretty-moving cats. Someone else should specialize in training cats to trot in hand. Just to prove that it can be done. Thanks for your service.[/QUOTE]
LOL. I just have this picture in my head of a hackney-cat. Give me some knee-action, kitteh!
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LOL. I just have this picture in my head of a hackney-cat. Give me some knee-action, kitteh![/QUOTE]
Knees are too low on a cat for showy action up front… even if you used a check rein and cranked the head up.
Notice that no photogs ever take pictures of cats at an angle as do those promoting A-rabs and various gaited and/or driving breeds.
So rollkur won’t work on kitty?
No but I’ve heard that rollpur is fairly effective.
As for the flap, I just call it the “OMG Ladybug you are so fat. The vet is NOT gonna be happy with me.”
LOVE the name Ladybug for a cat!
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So rollkur won’t work on kitty?[/QUOTE]
Depending on what you think rollkur will do for a horse…I’m pretty sure rollpurr won’t do much for a cat. The head and neck of a cat have almost no influence on the balance and hind end of a cat.
Now you might change things if you wadded up a cat’s tail…
What if I put weighted booties and chains on my cats front feet? My chubby cat mostly likes to walk so if I get more action in front as she goes I think I could get a running walk out of her. Then you would never notice the flappy skin.
Nope, I have a cat with a natrually wadded up tail - it curls up tight over his back like the tail on a husky. Now when he trots, he has two way action: swaying belly skin and the tail going in perfect opposition to the belly. Of course, when he really wants to cover ground, oh let’s say feeding time, that tail straightens out and kinks sideways. He does have full control of the oddity at his back end, and it is a perfect barometer of mood: culed to lie flat on his back = happy happy kitty. normal curl = normal cat. slightly uncurled = apprehensive and so on .
It’s a cat flap.
I always called it their udders. I have two cats, one is pretty fat and has almost non existant udders. The other is svelte and looks like a guernsey.
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What if I put weighted booties and chains on my cats front feet? My chubby cat mostly likes to walk so if I get more action in front as she goes I think I could get a running walk out of her. Then you would never notice the flappy skin.[/QUOTE]
I haven’t tried saddlebred-ing up a cat. But I would… for research purposes.
I’d think you’d get “all or nothing.” Kitteh would flip out and give himself a big work out, or lie down Mahatma Ghandi style and refuse to move. Either way, you would have pissed off the cat. Was that the point? Does this need to be confirmed experimentally?
It’s true that you wouldn’t notice the flappy part during all this.
It’s called a “dewlap”. It’s just loose skin. Does look like a kitty udder though! :lol:
My cat has fat cat pudge there, she dislikes it when you sqwooge it.
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Have you noticed that cats will choose a crappy little rushed trot as their “get from point A to point B” ground-covering gait of choice? They don’t canter. They certainly don’t lope. [/QUOTE]
My awkward kitty (surprise) never got the memo about not loping. I’ve literally never seen her trot… I honestly don’t know if she knows how. She either walks or she lopes. Then again she is either sleeping or racing me up the stairs or to the food bowl so maybe thats why :lol:
So Ghazzu - you obviously slept through the Feline Anatomy lecture…
I always thought the flap - aka hangy downy part - was for me to warm my hands under in a cold barn with a cat on my lap.
Would that make it a muff?
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I’d be grateful if someone would start breeding for some pretty-moving cats. Someone else should specialize in training cats to trot in hand. Just to prove that it can be done. Thanks for your service.[/QUOTE]
My siamese (cross?) guy is very slender and has a lovely lofty trot and a rabbit-like canter.
The siamese cross female doesn’t have swinging pooch because it’s all filled up. Clearly too much beer! She rarely canters and her trot, even with the pretty “flag” tail isn’t much to brag about 
Nah–seriously, it’s nothing more exotic than “abdominal fold”.
