Shocking tail loss.

[chris-uk]

Really curious.

Anything of note when you look at the "cut" ends? It doesn't look like a clean cut from the photos, if it's been caused by trauma it looks more like a it was trapped, spine snapped and then the flesh torn. But that is pure speculation, there would need to be something for it to have got trapped by.
How does the lost bit of tail look, any sign of necrosis? It may be difficult to tell if it has been detached for a day or so.

15-20cm of tail lost... I'm staggered.

[gregmonsta]

Really curious.

Anything of note when you look at the "cut" ends? It doesn't look like a clean cut from the photos, if it's been caused by trauma it looks more like a it was trapped, spine snapped and then the flesh torn. But that is pure speculation, there would need to be something for it to have got trapped by.
How does the lost bit of tail look, any sign of necrosis? It may be difficult to tell if it has been detached for a day or so.

15-20cm of tail lost... I'm staggered.

It doesn't look clean and zooming in on the full size image here at home you can actually see a bit of spine. I can also only speculate that, as she loves to climb, that she could have been stretching for a point with her tail 'anchored' and fell awkwardly with the tail being pulled on by her bodyweight. The tail, then weakend, could have become trapped while burrowing under the warm hide or something. The intitial trauma could have happend a lot earlier too ... no idea. Where's Sherlock Holmes when I need him?