Cat's Paw

The Cat's Paw is a Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics item. It can be found in one location in Fallout and is part of a side-quest in Fallout 2.

While in Fallout the item is quite mysterious and the only descriptions are "You Have No Idea" and "Upon further inspection, you still have no idea what this is.", in Fallout 2, Cat's Paw is a magazine can be assumed to be either the equivilent of a Playboy or a Maxim.

In Fallout 2, if you collect enough of the magazines, one can recieve a special Cat's Paw Issue No.5 "that contains a very interesting article on energy weapons" in New Reno.

Fallout 2 Locations
Among other places, issues of Cat's Paw can be found in:
 * Klamath - traded by the Dunton brothers, on the bookshelf in the locked room at the Dunton house, and in toilet close to canyon entrance,
 * Vault 8 locker on the second level, one issue can be received also from nurse Phyllis there, as a help for sperm donation,
 * the raiders barracks outside of Broken Hills,
 * small pot at outside of Broken Hills hotel,
 * on a bookshelf in Myron's room in the Stables,
 * Bishop's wall safe on the second floor of Shark Club.
 * The Den Traded by Flick.

Behind the scenes
Cat's Paw is actually a real-life brand of rubber heels manufactured in Canada. The image for the item in Fallout appears on the box for a pair of those heels. The developers of Fallout 2, not knowing the real origin of the image, mistakenly assumed that it's a pornographic magazine.