6/28 Jenks AMPS 176 +7 206 PMPS 257 +7 178 LIMP TAIL, HELP?

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AZJenks

AZJenks

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6/27

End of the nice streak. We're back in the yellows.

However, I'm not sure that this is blood sugar related. In fact, I'm a little concerned.

After coming home from dropping OH off at the airport, I did the usual test, feed, shoot routine. Just now, I saw Jenks get up and walk to the food plate, and noticed that his tail was limp. As in, totally limp and just hanging behind him. No movement, no anything.

It seems like there's feeling all the way to the end, because with a firm enough pinch he does show a response.

However, as I squeeze closer and close to the place where the tail meets the body, he hisses and growls.

I'm so worried now, especially because it's just me here. Everything else about him seems normal. I guess I'll have to try to get him into the vet as soon as they can see him. But I don't know how I'll do it tomorrow, where I'm already committed to a lot of stuff I absolutely can't avoid.

Does anyone know how concerned I should be about this?
 
Without seeing a vet, there's really just no way to know

Hopefully whatever is going on will be better in the morning!!!

Sending mega healing vines to my favorite Jenks!!
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Thanks @Chris & China.

Looks like I'll just monitor the situation closely. He ate well. He enthusiastically followed me around the house meowing for some of my ice cream. He's laying and sleeping out in the open. He even engaged in a little wrestling with the civvie.

I assume if it were something serious, he'd try hiding. So I'm trying to take some solace from the fact that he's not doing that.

After a review of internet searches, it appears the most common causes (including some sort of trauma, or angry anal glands) are also ones that don't necessitate emergency intervention. Those that would require immediate attention seem to also be very rare.

We'll wait and see how he behaves tonight....
 
It sounds like he may have just injured his tail somehow. Since he is eating and playing, hopefully that means it's not serious and will heal quickly. Sending prayers. :bighug:
 
We're down 80 points and into the blue at the overnight feeding. He's been out in the open all night snoozing on his back. He came over for testing unprompted. He ate well. Then when he was done, he came to find me and laid down and wanted some petting. He's bright-eyed and purry and otherwise seems fine, except for the droopy tail. It's not lifelessly dragging behind him. It does look like it is trying to be held up at the part where it joins the body.

If he strained, tweaked, or injured it somehow, then it is beyond me how he'd do that. He's not active, so unless he did something moving from one sleeping spot to the next, I don't know where it could've happened. But it wasn't there this morning as far as I remember, so it's a recent development.
 
AZJenks said:
We're down 80 points and into the blue at the overnight feeding. He's been out in the open all night snoozing on his back. He came over for testing unprompted. He ate well. Then when he was done, he came to find me and laid down and wanted some petting. He's bright-eyed and purry and otherwise seems fine, except for the droopy tail. It's not lifelessly dragging behind him. It does look like it is trying to be held up at the part where it joins the body.

If he strained, tweaked, or injured it somehow, then it is beyond me how he'd do that. He's not active, so unless he did something moving from one sleeping spot to the next, I don't know where it could've happened. But it wasn't there this morning as far as I remember, so it's a recent development.
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Could he and your civvie have had a little wrestling match that got too energetic and resulted in a bite or something? I ask that because there's a barn kitty where I board my horse that tangled with some critter or other a couple of years ago and his tail was injured. He recovered well but his tail was left a bit floppier although he can raise it and move it.
 
It does sound like he injured his tail, but it sounds like he may be on the upswing. Gordy injured his tail moderately (i use that because it took him 2 weeks to heal, but he is fine). He just had his tail hanging limp and when i gently checked it, he had a notch or broken spot. It was getting better before he got to the Vet, but he got prescribed kitty ibuprofen for pain and swelling. Still dont know what he did - it was almost like his tail got caught in a door. I'd just keep an eye on it and he isnt better in a few days, bring him in to be checked. (I always go on the more paranoid side... we i first googled broken tail, there was a ton of bad side effects and got freaked out)
 
CassAndGordy said:
It does sound like he injured his tail, but it sounds like he may be on the upswing. Gordy injured his tail moderately (i use that because it took him 2 weeks to heal, but he is fine). He just had his tail hanging limp and when i gently checked it, he had a notch or broken spot. It was getting better before he got to the Vet, but he got prescribed kitty ibuprofen for pain and swelling. Still dont know what he did - it was almost like his tail got caught in a door. I'd just keep an eye on it and he isnt better in a few days, bring him in to be checked. (I always go on the more paranoid side... we i first googled broken tail, there was a ton of bad side effects and got freaked out)
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There are times that Googling is best avoided. ;)
 
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