this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2025
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[–] Detached@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

never seen a polydactyl turtle before

[–] ivanovsky@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Hide yo guns, that turtle has opposible thumbs

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think the english call it "calico"

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago

ah, alright, thank you expert

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope the cat's name is Mittens.

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

That's a turtle

[–] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Ah, the elusive tortoiseshell cat