pourquoi ma chatte s'est-elle léchée la patte?

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should there be a second 'e' on léchée in this case as the noun comes after the verb?

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Merci à tous !
It was indeed a mistake, and has now been fixed thanks to you :)

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I would agree with you: the reflexive pronoun is indirect and the noun (la patte) is direct. In this case the participle would not get accorded to the direct object. This would be parallel to the sentence:

Elles se sont lavé les cheveux. -- They washed their hair, given in https://www.thoughtco.com/french-accented-capitals-4085546

I have it on good authority, though, that a lot of French native speakers have trouble with this also. :)

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Yes, well it does seem to go against the rule!  Thank you (I will keep making that mistake though, lucky I don't have a cat).

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hehe - glad to help!!

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It doesn't seem to be fixed yet (13 june 2019). I just spent several minutes trying to figure it out (before seeing these messages).

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Interesting example they made up... with léchée and chatte in the same sentence.

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This hasn’t been fixed yet (Aug 2020)