You may think that the nickname "Fat Malformed Kitty" is cruel, but it's actually quite descriptive. Socksy is an extreme manx cat. He was as part of one of the many litters of kitten born and bred in my parents backyard. It started with three little orange kittens (Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod), one Mama Cat and a small pie plate of cat food. Soon it became multiple litters of kittens per year, a giant bowl of food and a little cat hut rigged on an old lounge chair. Socks was the only cat of all of the litters of kittens that made the transition between the outside and the inside.
He came in of his own volition and we took him to the vet where the vet was fascinated by his lack of tail. Out of her own curiosity she x-rayed him and it turns out that he is missing all of his caudal vertebrae as well as one and half of his lumbar vertbrae. As a result, his body weight is distributed kind of strangely and when he runs he sort of hops the back feet together. He was a sick little kitten when he wandered in. After we got him all well, we tried to put him back outside but he clawed the edges of the door and refused.
So we kept him.
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