This is about our cat. If you are the slightest bit squeamish about veterinary procedures, please stop reading right now!
About two months ago, I came home and found one of my cats acting strangely, she would cry and meow for no readily apparent reason, she also walked around with her tail drooping instead of holding it up like she normally does when she's happy. Well eventually everything went back to normal and I didn't think any more of it. About three weeks after the crying incident, I was cleaning in the kitchen and pulled the refrigerator forward to vacuum around it only to find a can of corn had fallen off the kitchen counter and rolled onto the floor back there. I remembered this can going missing off the counter a few weeks earlier. Again thought nothing of it, then I was playing with Kitty and realized the very last tiny little bone in her tail was dislocated, making a kink in the end of her tail!! The other cat I'm assuming knocked the can of corn off and it landed on her tail that day!! I never realized it but I'm sure that's what happened. She has a vet appointment but I'm wondering if they can do anything about an injury that happened so long ago? She is not in pain now and the dislocation or break is really not noticeable unless you feel her tail.

Nothing squeamish about that info. I think the vet will just leave it. Nothing much can be done and if healed, the cat can go on as usual.

Tick

Even if you had realized what happened, I don't know if the vet would've been able to do anything about it. I can't remember ever hearing about an animal having a tail put in a cast or splint. Most likely, they just would have given you pain meds to give her and told you to let it heal on its own. It's not at all uncommon for animals to end up with broken tails.

My one cat has a kink in his tail - it appears to be maybe from having a door slammed on it or something. He was seven months old when I got him and it was already like that. I don't even know if it was an accident or somebody abused him. I can feel it when I run my hand down his tail, but it is otherwise unnoticeable and it doesn't bother him in the least.

So I wouldn't worry about it.

Well the vet already thinks I'm an idiot, I've called and visited their office with problems of every type already, it's like my animals sit up nights dreaming up ways of sending me into a panic and rushing to the phone. I guess maybe all pet parents are a little overprotective or maybe tend to blow it out of proportion when it happens to their pet. But I put in the word of caution because cats are pretty popular, who knows who might read about mine, I didn't want to come off as one of those jerks who brag about these kind of problems.

Do people brag about these kinds of problems? I've never noticed that, and I certainly wasn't thinking that about you. I'd much rather someone call a vet over nothing than some of the people who come on with an obvious emergency situation and seem to want us to solve it, instead of getting to a vet!

Well I logged on today eager to share with you all what the vet told us after she was seen. But I found my account full of hate mail and red dots from members attacking me, and got a warning about my postings on your site. So I guess I will share the story with my FRIENDS not you all at AMHD. Too bad for anyone else with a similar problem, you won't learn from my mistakes.

Wow, I'm sorry. You have absolutely no reason to be attacked, or receive hate mail from members on here. I completely understand you not wanting to post anymore.

I checked your profile and see only one red dot regarding the distemper comment. Was the hate mail simply disagreeing with you or was it really hateful? We're actually a pretty reasonable bunch here. I wouldn't stick around myself if it weren't that way -- have posted on and been a member of too many really nasty advice sites.

I hope you'll stick around.

If you have issues with certain other people, why don't you direct your comments at them, or report them? Why are those of us who posted on this thread now unworthy to hear the news you had to share?

Unless and until OP's posts which have been removed have been returned and made public it is difficult to say who sent him "hate mail." This is a case where OP should wander over to general discussions and actually post the hate mail. I'm the one who tussled with him and I didn't send him anything.

This may be an exaggeration as I don't see the red "dots" he's complaining about.

It wasn't on this thread - it was on another, concerning diagnosing illness/disease without the benefit of a physical exam by a licensed professional, something which AMHD attempts to discourage.

Well, there was a red dot, but pretty much deserved.

As for the hate mail, I never believed it had anything to do with this thread, so I'm not sure why that got posted here. Kinks in tails aren't exactly a "hot topic."

Someone who is no longer with us - possibly in more ways than one - posted at one time that she got hate mail, none of which she cared to produce.

Depends, I guess, on your version of what "hate mail" is.

Glad you got a good laugh. And of course if I had a kink in my tail, that really would be quite kinky. :p

wow, I'm sorry. you have absolutely no reason to be attacked, or receive hate mail from members on here. i completely understand you not wanting to post anymore.


Really? And you read the other thread before you came to this conclusion?

Maybe it depends on what OP means by "attacked."