A NEW WINGED CAT ENCOUNTER
It’s been quite a while since I last learned of a hitherto unreported encounter with a genuine winged cat, i.e. one whose ‘wings’ consist of stretchable extensions of furry skin (due to a rare genetically induced condition called feline cutaneous asthenia, as I discovered back in the 1990s), rather than merely clumps of matted fur. So I was very pleased to receive on 30 August 2022 the following details from American correspondent Kevin Hoxsey, which he has kindly permitted me to reproduce here in full:
“In late summer of either 1991 or 1992, I was visiting a friend of
