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Braveheart. Almost 4 years. Female.Braveheart may be 3-legged, but she can shred kitchenrolls like any other cat!
In reply to 's query "How did she become 3-legged??" :-
"We found her flopping around on the road - must have been a victim of a road accident. The vet found a broken thigh bone in a hind leg, and she had lost the use of her right arm. Nothing was broken in her right arm, so the vet thought it might have been some nerve damage, which may or may not heal. Well, her hind leg healed (with plenty of calcium supplements) but her arm didn't.
"That didn't stop her though. We used to call her once-four-legged-now-three-legged-who-runs-around-like-five-legged. Now, fifteen years old, she's older and fatter and not so fast.
"We call her Braveheart - not for Mel Gibson, but for the bravery in dealing with that very long and painful healing period. We found her on Deepavali (Diwali), also known as the Festival of Lights in Hinduism, so we sometimes call her our Gift of Light."
More of her story in ...
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Aww! So beautifull story =') And she is one of the mosf beautifull cats in the world ^^ Congratulations =3
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*sigh!* Heeeelp!! I can't breathe!!!! Aaaarg! (WTF? xD)
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That is a beautiful story, minus the part of her getting hurt; but the recovery process. This is a classical example of the destruction cats cause, yet manage to look so innocent and cute after! Gorgeous.
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Hiya you! Whereforth did you spring from?
I have not submitted this deviation to any group anytime recently, so I'm really surprised you found it at all.
Thank you for stopping to leave a comment! and such nice comments too! 
Aye, innocence is her middle name ... have you seen her here? ... [link]
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I was just browsing through some cat groups (I forget which one) and came across this photo! It's gorgeous, I love it. And no problems at all!
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Ahso! since we don't have any groups in common, would you like me to give you a "guided tour" through my gallery of cats, cats, and cats?
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We actually have a whole bunch of groups in common! Cat related, anyway. You're clearly a huge cat lover, just like me. 
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aiyaiyai ... how is it I missed that the first time?! 
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I love Braveheart. I don't know what it is about toilet paper, but all of my 18 cats, especially those I acquired as kittens, loved those toilet paper rolls. Perhaps the rolls smelled a bit like wood and was the closest the inside kitties could get to a real tree? 
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wow! boy, am I glad kitties don't eat the rolls!
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Aww, she's so cute! It's great that she can still live life to the full with a missing leg (:
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Well, it's not missing; just atrophied and curled up almost against her chest. At the beginning, it was just bent at an angle, as you can see here [link] ... but it gets worse as she gets older [link] and [link]
Thanks for stopping to comment!
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I see. It still looks quite bad though D: Poor thing.
And no problem!
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Aww, she's a cutie.
The name once-four-legged-now-three-legged-who-runs-around-like-five-legged sounds like the sort of one I'd read in a book of Native American mythology(they have tones of strange, multi-word ones like that)
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Yay! You got it! You are the first to catch that - I was indeed alluding to the Native American style of naming! I had been a fan of stories about the old American West since I first read cowboys-and-indians books in my early teens.
yup, we think she's one too!
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Oh, seriously, wow. XD
Ah, that's ok, pet owners love showing off their pets. I know I do XD
We have a cat that likes to hide in the linen closet, except he's dark grey, so we never notice till he decides that 2am is when he wants out and starts pawing at the door waking everyone up so someone will let him out. ><
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oh dear, I hope your closet has enough air for him! Good thing he's smart and knows how to get the attention of the humans! We are terrified of suffocating cats in the closet, so we leave the doors open 24/7
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Oh there's plenty of air, the door isn't air tight, there's like, an inch or so gap between the floor and the bottom of the door and even closed it's doesn't close snugly-it making an annoying clunking sound when he paws on it-which is what wakes us up at ungodly hours of the morning, the repetitive clunking on the door. We can't really keep it open because there isn't enough room in the upper hall landing-where the closest is.
He hasn't done that for a while though, I think he's getting lazy in his old age-he's 14, will be 15 in June.
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heehee..good thing he doesn't do it anymore...some cats may get incontinence when they get older!
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Haven't had any of our cats do that yet.
We were told by the vet that, older cats can have liver problems, which, sadly, is what our 16.5 year old cat had when she died(back in 2007).
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It is not all that common. Many years ago, my sister's 20-year-old cat had that problem - he would go wherever and whenever! Currently, our 20-year-old is experiencing some retention problem - she seeps a little. Not enough to wet anything, but it does leave odours around where she sleeps/lies. So it's towels everywhere and the washing machine is working overtime! Minor problem though.
Ahh, yes; liver and kidney problems. Your cat was 16.5 year old - that's a good long life. With our cats, it is kidney problem that is the main "killer". We have had a couple of very serious liver cases, but they managed to overcome it, probably because they were younger than your cat. Yen was about 6/7 when she first started showing symptons, and she was hospitalised for a few days. The 3rd time it happened, when she was 8/9, she was hospitalised for a week. As each set of blood test showed worsening results (results for the 3rd set of tests were so off the scale that they had to dilute the sample 5 times before readings could be made!), the vet started to prepare us for the worse. Miraculously, she pulled out of it; and we decided we had to know more about maintenance and preventive care, for the next time would likely be the last. So it was read read read at the library. We then put her on daily supplements,etc. She lived on till 17/18 (died of kidney failure) and didn't need to go back to the vet for that again. It was the same story for our other liver problem cat - Toby got over serious liver problems that he had since we rescued him when he was 5+, and died from kidney failure at 15.
So you see, we are more in fear of kidney than liver problems.
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yeah! but we still think of her as a baby! ^-^
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But of course! That goes without saying!
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She is a gift! Her story is s sad! Im glad she got a good home!
I remember when my cat got hit, the car flopped him on the road and he went unconsious, luckly he had little damage. He is very lazy and healthy now, road accidents are so sad.
you can see Fatcat here- [link]
Thanks for all the links to these cats! they are wonderful!
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omg...your cat was hit by a car?!
oops...your link doesn't work?
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Yeah, I cried when it happened, it was sad. and Sorry about the link?? Not sure ahy it didn't work?
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Indeed, she earned the name "Braveheart"! Did the front leg get amputated or is it just useless? I'm glad you gave such a beautiful cat a fresh start. May the cat goddess bless you always!
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At the beginning, before it atrophied, it was hanging down and occasionally, she stepped on it and tripped. The vet warned that it the arm gets continually dragged on the floor, she may get friction burns and it may have to come off.
We had just read a book by Phillip Gonzales (I think the title was "Ginger", the name of a dog he adopted - though the book was really more about cats!), and, to cut a long story short, we were reluctant to take that step. So we decided to wait and observe. She seemed to manage well, and as the arm atrophied and as she grew bigger, it no longer got in her way. Of course, she is unable to exude her claws to clean, so we have to do that for her regularly.
oohhh...we think we are much blessed by the "cat goddess" or whatever powers that be! We are able to enjoy a rather simple and stress-free life with our little people (that's what we call our cats, rabbits, etc) in our sanctuary, sheltered from most of the strive out there in the "real" world. Our work is cat-sitting (at clients' homes), so we deal with cats and hardly with humans (phew!). We count our blessings daily (oh ok, not every day).
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Ah, I've always referred to mine as my fur-suited friends but since I had horses, too, not all were little people. 
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How sweet! We have a three-legged kitty, too, except it's her hind leg and it was from a dog bite. They're so amazing with what they can do, aren't they?
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Ahhh ... little Michi. So glad to hear that she healed alright! Yes, they are inspirational, aren't they?
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heh heh heh
isn't she? But she can look like this ...[link]
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I am glad that she overcame the missing leg. She is your Gift of Light.
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So nice to hear from you again, Greg!
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