Warrior cats nerd

post/135867677003/ I can probably help clear this up. If I’m guessing right and you’re talking about the entire “foot”,  it might make you feel better to know that’s not a foot at all. Unlike humans, many animals (as are the dragons on the site) digitigrades, meaning what we call a foot on our bodies is actually part of their leg! If you stood on your toes you would get the same affect, and if you look at Pipp, you’ll notice her feet are quite small, because it shows how the leg is different.

the comparable bones are the same color between the horse and the human. the hoof is a fingernail for the horse’s fused digits, and the yellow and green bits are toe bones. the blue bits are the tarsal bones(the foot version of the carpal bones in the hand). the purple’s the ankle, and the knee is where the green and brown meet!

I even used a similar example- “f you stood on your toes you would get the same affect”. As for it being the opposite of how digitigrades work, I blame my wording again. I know that the tarsal bones in a fae are equivalent to our feet, but I don’t consider them a “foot” because they’re not walked on in digitigrade animals. I don’t see humans as a “default” like many seem to, so instead of seeing animals as walking on their toes, I see it as us walking on what is their leg.

Rest assured, I definitely know HOW it works, but sometimes I have a hard time wording things correctly. I did enjoy looking at that handy chart you linked, though. It’s really interesting how different animals have such similar anatomy even though we all seem so strikingly different.