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So I have recently gotten a completely tailless stray kitten. She does not even have a stump but a divet where her tail should be. I have been reading a lot about tailless and bobtailed cats just out of curiosity. I have seen literally dozens of completely tailless cats randomly occurring as strays or alley cats throughout my life. (Another completely rumpy cat showed up outside the library where I work only about 3 months after I adopted this one!) Yet I can find almost no information about naturally occurring rumpy cats. Everything I've been reading seems to suggest that completely tailless cats are almost invariably purebred Manx cats and that almost every stray "Manx" is really a bobtail. Am I just bizarrely lucky to keep finding stray rumpies or does anybody else have much experience with this? Does the true rumpy gene come only from the Isle of Man or does it also naturally occur in cats everywhere? I have noticed that rumpies seem to come in pockets of cats. My kitten came from rural NE Texas and her mother was also a rumpy and there were other rumpies in the area. I have also noticed rumpies around Laguna Park in central Texas. Does it just pop up in any areas prone to inbreeding?
Before anybody gets concerned this kitten shows no signs of spina bifada. My understanding is that cats impacted by that demonstrate symptoms early and she is now at 7 months with no symptoms. And for anyone who is curious I have added a picture of my rumpy taken about a week after I got her.
Before anybody gets concerned this kitten shows no signs of spina bifada. My understanding is that cats impacted by that demonstrate symptoms early and she is now at 7 months with no symptoms. And for anyone who is curious I have added a picture of my rumpy taken about a week after I got her.