whatever the case , there could be no doubt that this strange being before me was a half-cow , half-cat hybrid and that if i were to relieve her of one of her cat-stomachs , surely shed have three more cow-stomachs to rely uponthat is , unless all four of her stomachs were cat-stomachs , or unless she had a 2-cat-stomach , 2-cow-stomach even-split , or a 3-1 split in either direction that oscillated in favor of the cat on one day , and then in favor of the cow on the next , inconstantly alternating between these two majority states without ever achieving absolute stasis anywhere in between ; of course , there was one more possibility , one that i now feared most : the possibility that all 4 stomachs were those of a cow and that any stomach that i might remove from this beast would therefore be useless to me .