How to tell whether your cat is right- or left-pawed

No, I'm not making this up. Your cat favors one front paw over the other, just like we do, according to new research out of Ireland:

More often than not, females tend to be righties, while toms are lefties, say Deborah Wells and Sarah Millsopp, psychologists at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland.

However, these preferences only manifest when cats perform particularly dexterous feats. That's for the same reason we can open a door with either arm, yet struggle to write legibly with our non-dominant hand. "The more complex and challenging [the task], the more likely we're going to see true handedness," Wells says.

If cats played baseball, those lefties would be in demand for the mound (which would itself be made out of clumping clay, of course). (:-D