The word "paws" is correct in written English
It is typically used to refer to the feet of animals, especially those with claws or pads, like cats and dogs.
Example: "The cat stretched out its paws and settled down for a nap."
Alternatives: "Feet" or "Claws"
Dogs in summer bit by gnats or fleas or gadflies, jerking their snouts about, twitching their paws now here, now there, behave no otherwise".
I would like to capture some of the instincts on this of Paul Keating, Malcolm Fraser and even Alexander Downer; and I value the words of Gareth Evans – that we should not approach the Americans 'happy to lie on our backs like puppy dogs with four paws waving and pink tummies exposed'".
It is hard to kick the head of a cat weighing a quarter of a tonne if it has its paws on your back and is trying to drag you to the ground.
A few days before the poll Gary Wade, the chief justice on the state's Supreme Court, sat in his office, a room enlivened by a bearskin rug on the floor, complete with paws and snarling mouth.
Demand for rhinoceros horns, the paws and bile of Asiatic black bears and sun bears, tiger bones and penises, and deer musk, is stimulated by the healing powers ascribed to them in traditional Chinese medicine.
Pi's terror, when he realises that the ship has sunk, his family are surely dead and he is sharing a boat with a growling tiger, gives way to pity as his soaked companion paws pitifully at a raft to get back into the boat, and then to wild-eyed dominance when, in a moment of starving madness, he stares the animal down.
Many Muslim conservatives remain convinced that the Copts are cats' paws for malingering foreign powers who seek to foment chaos.
Rats steal eggs through teamwork (one rodent lies on its back, holding the egg in its paws; its pal then tows it by the tail).
Watch the bounce ReprintsLetting Westerners get their paws on the conference was exactly what the Afghans aimed to avoid, fearing it would spook key participants, especially the Iranians, who are most suspicious about the initiative.
Nike, say, has no inherent competitive advantage over a hobbyist who likes to design shoes (or feet, paws, wings or claws) for fun.
Lions, for example, have vibration detectors in their paws and probably use them in the same way as scorpions use their vibration detectors to locate meals.Dr Hill herself spent years trying to work out how prairie mole crickets, a highly territorial species of burrowing insect, manage to space themselves out underground.
