Hemingway ain't got nothing on this cat

The Proudfoot Family was a family of Hobbits of the Shire. All the members of this family mentioned in The Lord of the Rings were related to the Bagginses, since they were descended from Bilbo Baggins' uncle Bodo Proudfoot. There is some uncertainty about the plural form of 'Proudfoot'; the family themselves apparently used 'Proudfeet', but Bilbo pointedly preferred 'Proudfoots'.

from http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Proudfoot_Family

If you have a polydactyl cat like mine, they are 'Proudfeet'.
Hemingway's cats certainly are.

Seems, according to 60 Minutes last night, that the USDA is terribly interested in the welfare of the Hemingway cats. To the extent that several hundred person-hours (or should that be bureaucrat-hours?) and numerous trips, at taxpayer expense, have been exhausted on trying to keep the cats from wandering off the property into Key West proper.
Not sure, still, why this is perceived as a problem, or how the USDA justifies it as a federal issue, but there you are.
No jokes about government officials creating a boondoggle where they have to go to Key West, on our nickel, please...