When we first met Butthole, the Abhainn Dearg distillery cat, we assumed that he had either been in some sort of accident which had left his tail like that, or that he had a birth defect. It turns out that the first one isn’t true at all, and the second one is only half-true. He HAS had this curious affliction ever since birth, yet he can also hold his tail normally when he feels like it.
His human employer (I wasn’t really getting a “Cat Daddy” kind of vibe when we visited the distillery) mentioned that Butthole was fully aware of the attention attracted by his weird tail, and probably did it on purpose for this very reason.
I tried, the other day, to curl Louis Catorze’s tail in the same way, and it just wouldn’t work. It’s very difficult to do this with one hand whilst filming with the other, but this was one of my more successful efforts:
As you can see, the tail just won’t life flat against his body in the way that Butthole’s does. Not even the weird reptilian segments were able to help us out here.
So Catorze is only the second-weirdest cat on the planet. What a relief.
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