Happy Stomp

Stomp: "I'll have a rum . . . . And coke."

Bartender: "why the pause?"

Stomp: "Dunno, I've always had them."

big pause or it doesn't make sense
- Massive paws would also work if you really exaggerate it. 😉
Genius

There are actual cats that look like this, so probably it's real. It certainly doesn't seem AI generated to me.
GPTs also don't make images. That's not what Transformers do, and GPT means Generative Pre-trained Transformer. It's diffusion models and variational autoencoders that make images.

I'm gonna need another photo before I believe this is real... and I just want another.

6 toes on the back paw. Including the "thumb" that's underneath, that's 7.
I'm pressing X to doubt on this one

Sounds like they need to adopt a different GF

Right?! I’d go it alone with Stomp by my side.

Stomp is an epic name

I am imagining the cat making exaggerated cartoon footstep sounds as it walks

We can't see your cat's tail from this one picture. Is it short? Those feet and short tail may make Stomp a Pixie-Bob breed .

Its a highland lynx, which are generally bred to have manx tail.
Fun fact: because of the manx tail, it has a high chance of being incontinent.
- Since they’re from the Isle of Man, wouldn’t they be out continent?
- Yay

I’d adopt this freak show in a second and give him the best home

I love him

Stomp summoned this book from the depths of my memory. Big things in store for those big paws!

"An 'I can read' book" yeah why else would you have it then, smartass
/s just in case

I bet that adorable dude can move.

Ground pounders up and around.

AI stomp

Just imagine the amount of biscuits Stomp could make. Absolute perfection

I'm proud of y'all for not replying "absolute purrfection"
- absolute perrfection

I got my long haired Highlander from a gal at work whose daughter was allergic. Best cat I’ve ever had.

I hope he doesn’t grow into those feet.

I've seen weirdly long feet, but this looks like he's wearing giant fuzzy paw slippers. Bonkers. Good on you for adopting him, and choosing the best name lol

I wanna see the boot not too big for the gd feet!

why did you name him stomp

Definitely looks more like a Pippin to me...
- He's obviously a Proudfoot.
You don't tiptoe with feets like them.

Hot damn! Those paws are comically big. It's like if a cartoon cat with big feet came to life but kept the disproportionate paws. Awesome!

Call me crazy but I love it. Makes him even more cute!

That is a lynx.

It's not a pathological defect though? I mean does he have health problems because of his paws?

Polydatctyly (extra toes) is not all that uncommon in cats. As far as I know it doesn't lead to any notable negative outcomes. We had a poly cat (named Poly because that's what the shelter called her) who lived a long and healthy life. Earnest Hemmingway famously kept and bred polydactyl cats at his home in Key West, and if you go visit the staff there still take care of their descendants.
Here's our Poly:
- I saw the Polys at Hemingway House, they all look very normal in comparison to Stomp's big feet.
  Almost all of them were taking naps in plants and under benches

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with all of these comments talking about this as if it's a real photo and not AI slop looks like complete shit. Are the comments AI generated spam too? Are they just stupid? Am I AI generated spam?

I looked into it a little using TinEye and the image predates generative AI images of this quality. I actually think it's a photoshopped normal cat; possibly as part of that weird trend of making some small detail of a normal photo look freakish.
Polydactyly is not uncommon in feral cats, but I have no information about the provenience of the photo.
I am not AI spam. I am sometimes stupid.
Worse than being AI, this is a newish designer breed called a highland lynx, and the polydactyl, curled ear tips, and manx tail are traits they are breeding for.
Unfortunately, its not very ethical to breed for these traits, especially the manx tail, which can cause cats to be born incontinent.

are we sure this is a cat and not a young lynx?

It’s a Highlander cat. Natural bobbed tail, curled ears, and polydactyl claws.
- Those are very rare. In fact, I'm pretty sure there can be only one.