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azurelunatic) wrote2003-08-06 08:51 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-08-06 08:51 pm
shammash's tail
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shammash's tail.
Moshie was a stray.votania heard something crying, and saw a tiny striped kitten in a patch of sunlight when she was headed to the bank next door. She came back, and he was still there, still crying. So she scooped him up and brought him home.
He was mostly healthy, if a bit young to be on his own, except for his tail. His tail was about half the length it should have been, and crooked at the end, sticking up straight with a lump at the end like a short club. The end was healed, but the bones inside form a question-mark shape, his tail going up straight, making a right-angle turn, and then another one, so the very tip of his truncated tail points down at the floor when he points his tail up.
We still don't know how it happened, but he freaks out when the door is open and he sees a car drive past.
Other than that, he was a very healthy cat-boy until the ear thing.
Don't mess with his tail. He's a very laid-back cat, and doesn't get upset about much of anything. He suffers small children kindly, with the random well-deserved warning nip. He keeps his claws sheathed but for traction. He howls while getting a bath, but is more interested in getting away, and getting away fast, than hurting anyone. Even when his ear was nastily abscessed and I had to puncture and drain it daily, he still was very patient, even with a good half-inch of steel in his ear being poked around. But if you touch the end of his tail too roughly, he will bite. Still.
Maybe someday when it's in the budget, he could have surgery to remove those nasty bits of cracked and bent bone, like my mother had to have for her smashed and splintered finger some years after the accident.
shammash's tail. Moshie was a stray.
votania heard something crying, and saw a tiny striped kitten in a patch of sunlight when she was headed to the bank next door. She came back, and he was still there, still crying. So she scooped him up and brought him home. He was mostly healthy, if a bit young to be on his own, except for his tail. His tail was about half the length it should have been, and crooked at the end, sticking up straight with a lump at the end like a short club. The end was healed, but the bones inside form a question-mark shape, his tail going up straight, making a right-angle turn, and then another one, so the very tip of his truncated tail points down at the floor when he points his tail up.
We still don't know how it happened, but he freaks out when the door is open and he sees a car drive past.
Other than that, he was a very healthy cat-boy until the ear thing.
Don't mess with his tail. He's a very laid-back cat, and doesn't get upset about much of anything. He suffers small children kindly, with the random well-deserved warning nip. He keeps his claws sheathed but for traction. He howls while getting a bath, but is more interested in getting away, and getting away fast, than hurting anyone. Even when his ear was nastily abscessed and I had to puncture and drain it daily, he still was very patient, even with a good half-inch of steel in his ear being poked around. But if you touch the end of his tail too roughly, he will bite. Still.
Maybe someday when it's in the budget, he could have surgery to remove those nasty bits of cracked and bent bone, like my mother had to have for her smashed and splintered finger some years after the accident.