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Title: Remember the tail-less cat from 6 months ago?
Post by: Mark on August 29, 2007, 18:07:02 PM

I don't know if anyone remembers me posting that I saw a cat with no tail and wsn't sure if it was a pedigree? - well I have been taking my camera to canterbury every time and I saw her today  ;D - I got a few pics but she ran away as they were knocking a wall down nearby and thehammer drill scared her  :evillaugh:

Is she a japanese bobtail or whatever they are called?  :evillaugh:

Title: Re: Remember the tail-less cat from 6 months ago?
Post by: blackcat on August 29, 2007, 18:11:40 PM

She looks a bit like a turkish angora, with that little head and close hair but a full long-haired body. But they have tails. She may have lost it in an accident...

Title: Re: Remember the tail-less cat from 6 months ago?
Post by: Borderdawn on August 29, 2007, 18:44:13 PM

I agree, she is probably a moggy that has had to have part of her tail removed, she is very beautiful
Dawn.

Title: Re: Remember the tail-less cat from 6 months ago?
Post by: Mark on August 29, 2007, 18:53:43 PM

She is cute  :Luv:

Shame she ran off  :tired:

Title: Re: Remember the tail-less cat from 6 months ago?
Post by: Millys Mum on August 29, 2007, 19:08:57 PM

Oooo shes gorgeous   :Luv: :Luv:
I dont think you get natural bobtailed cats with such a long coat. Reckon it was a vet job.

Title: Re: Remember the tail-less cat from 6 months ago?
Post by: Mark on August 29, 2007, 19:19:14 PM

It doesn't looked chopped and has a natural fall to it so I am convinced its natural  :Crazy:

http://www.petpublishing.com/catkit/breeds/japbobtail.shtml

Title: Re: Remember the tail-less cat from 6 months ago?
Post by: blackcat on August 29, 2007, 19:49:01 PM

have a look at these and see what I mean:

http://www.turkish-angora.eu/e-home.html

Title: Re: Remember the tail-less cat from 6 months ago?
Post by: Mark on August 29, 2007, 21:05:18 PM

I see what you mean - could well be. Her tail seems quite full though. Maybe as its short, it looks fat  :evillaugh:

Title: Re: Remember the tail-less cat from 6 months ago?
Post by: Ralph's mum (angie) on August 29, 2007, 21:07:35 PM

Quote from: Mark on August 29, 2007, 21:05:18 PM

. Maybe as its short, it looks fat  :evillaugh:

I know how that feels :rofl: :rofl:

Title: Re: Remember the tail-less cat from 6 months ago?
Post by: blackcat on August 29, 2007, 21:24:33 PM

Bob's tail was like a big floaty cloud (except when he ran it over matches as I was lighting a ciggy  :evillaugh: - then it was like a big ball of flame. He never noticed...). If it had been shortened surgically he would have had a short fat tail for sure. The interesting thing about these cats is that their winter coat is quite long, and in hot weather they seem to lose all but the guard hairs. Bob's eyes were green, he was gorgeous...