Since the Weekly Poll was clearly in favour of publishing the “disturbing image”, here’s a photograph of Artemis’ tail injury. Yes, you have to follow the link since some people thought that “appropriate”.
The basic deal is that our beautiful cat was probably hit by a car. She ran, but the car’s tyre caught the hair on her tail and scalped a 20cm section. The photo shows what it looked like after the vet had shaved it back for inspection.
Since then, Artemis “failed to re-gain tail functionality”. The tail has been amputated. So, as I explain to friends, we now have 1.95 cats. Apparently this is quite a common injury for urban cats.
Artemis is coping remarkably well, and it was a neat piece of surgery (thanks Katherine!). The main trauma was that it all happened while ’Pong and I were in Bangkok. Thanks to the Snarky Platypus and my office manager Virginia Bridger for helping out while we were away.
Sorry to hear about your cat. My mother also has a non-congenital manx cat, although as hers also has three legs, it’s even more manx. Hope she heals up well.
@Quatrefoil: I like “non-congenital manx”. Though of course blogging about one’s cats is the lowest form of self-expression.
Your 1.95 cats is what resulted in the click-through… so if blogging about your cat pulls in the traffic… it’s a winner! My pussy tales (as opposed to your pussy’s tail) also rakes ’em in! Lol — but nothing can match your fisting tweets for drama! Thanks for the laughs… can’t believe we haven’t met because we move in 1 degree of separation through our mutual networks!
@Annalie Killian: Welcome! I’ve found its the simple things which generate the greatest response — not that “generating a response” is my goal. On Twitter, it get the most responses to tweets about food and drink, public transport problems and the idiocy of other people.
Annalie Killian is right – the 1.95 cats got me in 🙂