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| No photos of Smokey exist, but she looked a lot like this female Nebelung |
Many years ago my first kitty, a feral female that adopted us who we named Smokey, got caught in traps twice.1 The first time she came home with a leg that had a deep puncture wound all around the leg. She went up into the hayloft by herself for days, and came out healed, thankfully. The second time, she came home with the leg dangling, and did the same thing, but this time came down without a leg; we assumed the tissue left connecting the leg to the body died and she self-amputated. Both my parents, from a farm background, were confident she would heal herself, and she did. They had seen such things before. I was little and trusted what my parents said. A different time. Animals can be amazing...
1 - We assumed whoever had set the traps, must have found her and set her free each time, otherwise she would have died in the traps...