Feet or no feet?

I was thinking the other night, do I need to give my character feet? This came into my head because I was watching the childrens program 'Pocoyo'. Yeah, i know, I'm a big kid...

There is an elephant in it, called Elly, and it has no hands or feet. I want to keep the hands because as the gorilla is very civilised, hands would be kind of helpful for this, and mine is a butler so he definatly needs hands, well it would be more practical for him to have them anyway. But the feet aren't so important to my design. I want to keep it simple too. Heres a few images of Elly to see how the legs look with no feet on the end of them...