stupid question, maybe?

Um, I have Christmas on my shoulder, and as is my habit I was playing
with her tail. I found that the last two inches (the tip) feels sorta
squishy, not like I [seem to] recall it usually is, and the skin seems
to er..slip a lot more than usual.

I'm wondering if something has happened or whether I am just noticing
it more. How loose should tail skin be? There are no obvious injuries,
and I certainly haven't trodden on her.

It feels really odd. (I'll probably get a boy or two out to compare,
but I'm fairly sure it wasn't like this yesterday)

cheers,
M&m

perigrine <perigrine.monique.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1187746325.060076.85620@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

> Um, I have Christmas on my shoulder, and as is my habit I was playing
> with her tail. I found that the last two inches (the tip) feels sorta
> squishy, not like I [seem to] recall it usually is, and the skin seems
> to er..slip a lot more than usual.
>
> I'm wondering if something has happened or whether I am just noticing
> it more. How loose should tail skin be? There are no obvious injuries,
> and I certainly haven't trodden on her.
>
> It feels really odd. (I'll probably get a boy or two out to compare,
> but I'm fairly sure it wasn't like this yesterday)

Does it feel a bit... crunchy? Not in an "oh my god the bones are broken"
way, more like you're moving cartilage about or something? My rats' tails
always felt like that, floppy at the end and with slippy skin like you
said, but only for the last centimetre or so. If she still has sensation in
her tail (I know it's really mean, but you could try pinching the very tip
just a little bit and see if she pulls away) it could just be one of those
weird things - if it was me, I'd just wait and see if anything happens. I
hate it when weird stuff happens... :-)

Rosemary