my cat bit the tail off a slow worm

[dogbiscuit]

as well as not getting my 500 this week (as most of you now know about) we had un unusual episode in the garden. we moved a few months ago to a house and garden inhabited with loads of wildlife. we have amongst others, a badger, squirel and slow worms. i have only ever seen one slow worm before as a child, over 30 years ago. to have all these things in the gardenis quite interesting after a small town terrace garden. however, on wednesday morning on her way out in the morning my other half found the cat sitting with a slow worm in front of it , lifeless, with its tail bitten off. she bent down to remove it, and it suddenly moved, causing a similar jump by her, resulting in her head contacting the scaffolding we currently have erected. not to pleased by that she called me to remove it. as well as the lost tail it had a puncture wound in the centre of the back of its head that was bleading. not muh hope for it i thought, but after a few days inside, in a washing up bowl, with leaves, being dripped water through a syringe, and offered tiny worms, i returned it to the wood pile whereby it slithered off. whether it lived or not we will never know. lets hope its regrowing that tail right now.:)

[Smoothound]

As they are lizards they often drop their tails as a distraction to their attacker so chances are your cat wasn't the damage doer :D Further damage was stopped while the cat watched the wriggling tail...

[monkeyb0yuk]

As long as it doesn't bite the tail off one of your helis, you'll be ok...lol