Cats
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
Britain in the 1990s and early 2000s. A curly-tailed tabby and white male cat was reported in
Perthshire, Scotland in 1986. The degree of curl ranges from loose through to a tight
corkscrew. In one case, the tail curled at the base and for the rest of its length lay flat along
the spine.
In the 1980's, Katrina Lee of Washington, DC, vacationed on the island of Guadeloupe . In a
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