Hello, Dat here, your roving news-squirrel!
Recent news articles of the weird and wonderful have shown me
this. Seeing as having opposable thumbs allows creatures to fashion tools, i say it won't be long before we're at all-out war with these 'polydactyl' felines and their offspring. Cats are cunning individuals and could quite conceivably usurp our previous place as rulers of earth..........

..........All hail our feline superiors!