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one happy Bungle. He'd be a Bengal but he doesn't have the dignity for it
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Ow, right in the heart...
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of my first cat: he had to have a leg partially amputated because of a tumor, but he still chased other cats out of his garden. He was a tough kitty.
I love those brave, tough kitties. We have 7 cats from Cyprus; we take those they find hard to home after having taken the Rubbish Tip Trio, who were hours from death when found and looked like nothing on earth. Cats with no tails are more handicapped than cats with three legs!
DeleteI salute the memory of your tripod ...
I hadn’t realised that about cats ‘n tails. How do Manx cats go on then? Or have they just learned over the generations to compensate?
ReplyDeleteI .am informed by my friend who lives on the Isle of Man that the cats are inclined to diarrhoea and if they get ill it becomes poop city. Generally speaking they have little stubs of tails which is enough to stop it being a major problem; we have 2 tailless cats, Polly has a stump and only has a problem in the hottest and coldest weather, Kelly is on daily probiotics to make him merely loose. He is a good boy though and aims at the litter box, he just ...leaks ... a little when sleeping. I went round all the charity shops for sheets and blankets which were rag quality so I can cover his sleeping places and chuck out his poopy pads. He's not bad enough to need nappies.
DeleteAs to the jumping, experience allows some. Polly with her stump can manage more or less, with very heavy landings; Kelly crashes four footed with about the grace and accuracy of a hippo, but his tenacity astounds me. And he can climb fine well. I have the crampon holes in my legs to prove it.
Ouch!
DeleteThank you.
a good diet and probiotics do wonders
DeleteThanks for the link to Ragamuffins; I take it they are tailless? there can be issues with continence of cats which have either lost their tails or which are genetically born without them. Now, I don't know about the Japanese Bobtail [and if anyone knows more, please let me know] but I do know that Manx cats can have rather runny turds and some degree of bowel incontinence especially as they age. Cats who have lost a tail have to learn again to jump, and some never learn. they usually have full bladder continence but not always. Our Polly has a stump of a tail, but sometimes she wakes from a deep sleep wetting herself. She also tries to use her litter box but has very little idea where her back end is, or when she has finished. Poor Kelly, with no tail, and the additional problem of being riddled with worms which we fought continuously, used to dribble poo quite often.
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