[Urgent] Injured slow worm advice

[sidewalkdoctor]

Quote:Originally Posted by Slowwormcrazy
We picked up a Slow Worm a couple of days ago but our cat has chewed off about an inch of his tail, after he had thrown it and we think it is healing pretty well but want to know more!!!

Quote:
Originally Posted by sidewalkdoctor
Slow Worms naturally shed their tail as a defensive mechanism when captured by anything. The shed tail will thrash about like a mad thing whilst the slowie feigns death.

The thrashing tail attracts the predator thus allowing the worm to make good its escape whilst the attacker is otherwise occupied. I know this 'cause I occasionally get our cat pouncing on them in the back garden, most survive.

So just leave the worm in the garden & it'll be OK in time.

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

How will it be OK its lost it head.....

Head? We're talking _tail_ here!

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by sidewalkdoctor

Head? We're talking _tail_ here!

Well if you look at the pic at the beginning of this thread you will see why I cant make head nor tail of it lol..

[sidewalkdoctor]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

Well if you look at the pic at the beginning of this thread you will see why I cant make head nor tail of it lol..

I confess that I didn't look that far back, I was replying to the post by Slowwormcrazy
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