Cats
(who is establishing a curly tailed breed) and was
a litter born to a barn cat in Oregon.
Ida Mellen's 1940 discourse on oddities in cats
included a picture of a curly tailed cat from
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. This ginger and white
cat's long tail clearly forms a tight spiral. Phyllis Lauder, writing in 1981 about Shorthaired
cats, noted that an ACA directive stressed that the tail shall not be carried over the
back: "This last is not a common fault, but it certainly looks strange when it occurs; there is
a Siamese neutered pet who carries his tail as would a Pekinese dog, and the effect is to
make people laugh!" Several curly tailed cats have been reported in random-bred cats in