Getting a turtle

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Detached@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Cute thumbs on the turtle

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

never seen a polydactyl turtle before

ivanovsky@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

Hide yo guns, that turtle has opposible thumbs

RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 12 pts · 1y (5 replies)

ok ok ok ok ok ok ok

there is literally a cat fur type

called tortoise shell

the joke wrote itself but we had to reinvent the wheel here

still updooting for mr skeltal

lemmyng@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 1y

I was going to make a "I said tortie, not turtle" joke, but ya beat me to it.

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I think the english call it "calico"

lemmyng@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

According to the Wikipedia article I just read (which now makes me an expert), calico is a specific kind of tortie. All calicos are tortoiseshell but not all tortoiseshell are calico.

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 1y

ah, alright, thank you expert

RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 1y

the english probably call them puzzly wuzzly fluffer beasts or some shit who care bout them

Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I hope the cat's name is Mittens.

474D@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

That's a turtle

Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y

Ah, the elusive tortoiseshell cat