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Ever seen a cat with no tail? Most likely it’s Manx Syndrome (& I’m gonna break it down for you)

Ever seen a cat with no tail? Most likely it’s Manx Syndrome (& I’m gonna break it down for you)



Ever seen a cat with no tail? Most likely it’s Manx Syndrome (& I’m gonna break it down for you)

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  3. My first cat probably had manx syndrome. she had half a tail, and the vet confirmed it hadn't been surgically removed. she was in perfect control of her bowels, but had other health issues that ended her life. I gave her three good years and that lets me rest easy now that time has passed.

  6. theres street cats everywhere in my neighborhood. I've got 4 in my house, 6 in my garage. I've fixed/found homes for 30 pus others. there's a couple cats with tails that fold at the tip. they're not always folded but especially in winter you see the last 2 inches folded on top of each other. ike a bent finger. my neighbors care for one of these cats. his names greasy. greasy chills wit my cats here and there cause they tolerate him, and greasy is kinda bullied by the other street cats. what in the eff is the cause of this folded tail tip. I've always guessed inbred genetics but idk

  8. I only met one manx cat. She was a kitten and she hopped around like a bunny! Very cute. But she wasnt my cat so idk anything else if she had bowel issues or if her legs weren't working properly or if she was sick or how long she lived. I just remember her being adorable and friendly ❤

  11. Yes please, tell us more! I have two nub-tail kitties. Though they both unfortunately lost their tails to external incidents. so no Manx syndrome over here, but I’m eager to hear more about it!

  13. My Manx doesn't have these problems but her none tail nub is always twitching and her back legs seem slightly longer then my other cats

  14. Im just going to say this now if you think the cat should be put down your are in fact ableist. If you think a disabled animal cant have a quality of life then you dont think disabled people can either or your think we are a burden. If you the one reading this rn think that you fing suck and shouldn’t be let outside around kids or pets 😊.

  19. I definitely thought Manx was just another breed of cat that simply had no tail… Unless it's both? Do all manx cats have manx syndrome and the other effects that come with it?
    I do appreciate you sharing your knowledge so more people are in the know about things that don't get talked about often ❤

  25. I adopted a street kitten with a very short twisted tail. He was hyper sensitive at the base of his tail and if you touched him beyond a certain point he’d turn and whack you. He also had some bowel issues that would occasionally cause his poop to get stuck halfway out! I called him my “Thugling” because of tendency to whack you if you touched him too far down his back. As long as you were careful, he was the sweetest cat.

  26. Annoyingly when I clicked on this video from a couple of suggested videos for me I got an ad that covered up your good example of Manx syndrome but I've heard of Manx syndrome before that's kind of how the manx breed came to be but much like the Scottish fold you can't have purebreds you have to breed back to other breeds because it causes skeletal damage if you breed true that show the feature basically as advertised my eldest cat I have now was read by her previous owner I don't know if it was on purpose or they just let her near a male without bothering to fix her or let her outside or whatever but she came into the shelter pregnant and I adopted her right after her babies were adopted I actually watch a couple of channels that have reptile themes even though I don't have reptiles and ironically one of them has a breeding male that had the same name the shelter gave her when she came in pregnant lumpy and I know from channels like that that certain things have to have a chromosome from Dad in a chromosome from Mom that match in order for it to show and other ones don't I imagine that's kind of what it is with this in cats

  28. Reading the comments, Can you address that not all Manx have Manx syndrome? But as Manx tail length cannot be predicted and therefore breeding is unethical. Also Manx syndrome can be a spontaneous mutation.

  29. I'd really like to know more. My cat has a full tail, but she has a fused tailbone and lower spine with some bowel control issues. She also has arthritis and doesn't like her back touched at all. She's 17…

  31. One of my first cats was a calico manx named Pudge! She had a stump of a tail, but no other maladies. She had a small litter of kittens (3). Rusty had a full tail, Nosy had a crooked half tail and Bear Bobalooloo Bright-eyes Pumpkin had a stump like mom. This was back in the 70s when i was 8 or 9, hence the creative name for Bear lol. He was white with orange patches and looked like a polar bear. ❤

  33. What is considered the humane thing here? I always advocate for life…pending they won't be miserable. Idk know enough, can a cat with this live a pain free(ish)?

  35. I'm gonna learn you sounds so ignorant.
    Your little diagram had so much promise. Go into more deeply about different conditions caused by Manx syndrome and skip the crap about the hat.

  40. i thought for a long time that my cat was a manx but we came to the conclusion (based on X-rays and touch) that his lil nub was probably a full tail at some point, but he had some kind of accident or was harmed as a kitten so he was left with only two crooked vertebrae. we never knew for sure since i picked him up off a college campus when he was almost full-grown. it never seemed to hurt or affect him very much! this was super interesting to learn since the only true manx cat i've interacted with (a tortoiseshell that belonged to my grandma) didn't have any of these issues, so i had no idea manx Was a syndrome or affected anything beyond the tail itself.

  44. We had a rumpie who was dumped and we took him in. I adored him. He definitely had constipation issues and a hard time feeling it he pinched it off or not.

    He was my favorite. I was so happy the kitten I adopted learned some of his chill. He was the sweetest cat who just would put up with everything… Except for meds. 😂

  46. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! My manx boy Timmy has workin' legs but is a little floppy in the back and has to take metamucil for dingle management but I adore him and this was so educational.

  47. This is a new manx fact for me. The only one I knew before is that you shouldn't go out and try to buy one because people are trash and will dock kitten tails and claim there are manxes.

  48. I have two manxs from rescue and they are super sweet. One of them is the queen of dingleberries but otherwise luckily they both do great

  49. Also, the manx gene is homozygous lethal. If a kitten has two copies of the dominant allele, they typically die in the womb. Kittens with only one copy will have a short tail (or no tail), but also have a risk of having manx syndrome. Breeding two cats with the manx mutation together will result in 1/4 of the litter having a normal tail and no Manx syndrome (no copies of the dominant allele that codes for Manx syndrome and the Manx phenotype), 1/2 having the Manx phenotype (short tail/no tail and possibly Manx syndrome), and 1/4 dying in the womb in early development. So Manx litters are typically smaller than most litters.

    Although I should note that there are multiple tailless genes in cats, and only the Manx gene causes Manx syndrome. Japanese bobtail cats, for example, don't have Manx syndrome unless you introduce the Manx gene through selective breeding. But by that point, they're no longer a Japanese bobtail, only a mixed breed/moggie.

  50. Omg this led me down a small but significant rabbit hole. I always wanted a manx, never researched that it was a bred in defect. Purposely breeding for the tailessness results in 20 percent being born with the disorder. So that's what almost a kitten a litter ?

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