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Wiggly Tail Disorder???

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Howdy,

Yesterday, my cousin and I were handling one of our 7 week old jungle babies during a cage cleaning and the little guy jumped right out of his hands and landed tail first on the floor. His tail didnt break off, not even partially, no broken skin. But it wriggled all over just like a detached leo tail, but still fully attached. This continued for 1-2 minutes and then ceased entirely. There is no sign of a kink or trauma to his tail, just wanted to know if this has happened to anyone before and if I can expect some permanent damage to the tail such as a kink or stoppage of growth.

Thanks.
Chris
 
Sounds like something they do when there stalking, excited, mating or flying across the room!;)
 
Naw, not this time...

I see what your saying, but I am framiliar as to how they flick their tails when they are excited, hunting, or in the mood for some lovin' (males). But this was clearly an involuntary motion that had to do with falling on his tail. I dont know if the impact severed some kind of nerve, or tricked the tissue into "thinking" it had been detached from the body but it was definitely an erratic episode of flicking around consistant with that of a tail that had been severed (i.e. flopping around in all directions instead of a clean, rapid, back and forth, flickering)....Anyone???

Thanks again,
Chris
 
It must be an involuntary thing that happens to the tail, which had the feeling of it breaking but didn't..."natures way"

Let us know if it "drops" later from some sort of nerve damage...interesting though!
 
I've had leos make similar leaps. On a few occaisions the tail tembled briefly; this seemed to be involuntary, but was nowhere near as violent as what you describe. Maybe there was internal tail damage in the case of your leo, does it still have sensation in it's tail?
-Alice
 
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I have had that happen to me where they just jump out and land on the tip of their tales but when it happened to mine it did the same thing you described. It didnt cause damage or anything, but it is an involuntary motion that does trigger the nerves to think that the tail has dropped. There was no permanent damage and my vet said that the tail was fine but to be more careful with it when handeling because the tail would be slightly more fragile.
 
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