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House cat having Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy - a rare condition that causes muscles to grow excessively large
NOTE: Apparently there is no long-term harmful affects of this condition in animals and has been known to occur in other animals/humans
Zambero
(9,990 posts)Those gargantuan claws look like lethal weapons, not to mention the turbo-powered muscular force that would power them. Dogs, trespassing cats, and humans beware!
zanana1
(6,488 posts)Maybe he was declawed.
Zambero
(9,990 posts)Might still get a few swats in now and then?
And a hairless cat at that so his muscles really show.
ProfessorGAC
(76,695 posts)But, she was a fairly small cat & had shorthair fur. (Gray tiger)
So it wasn't noticeable except ic she was on my lap.
Every move she made, you feel feel muscles on her muscles.
Only cat we ever had like that, and over the years, we've had at least 10.
Fla Dem
(27,633 posts)My cat is pretty even tempered, but recently I evidently did something she wasn't happy about and she gave me a good whack on the hand. It hurt like crazy and I ended up with a pretty decent bruise. There was a lot of power behind that punch.