You're right, it's amazing how well they do. My great aunt had a
kitten that lost a leg. You'd never have known when it was young,
though. It was always running and playing so hard that you couldn't
count the legs.

In its teens it developed arthritis in its one front leg, so it short
of hitched its way along, but it was always there to great visitors
and get its expected attention.

I've been trying all evening to remember it's name, but it won't come
to me. It didn't come along until after I joined the Army, so I only
saw it a few times over the years, while home on leave. If I have my
facts straight, it lived to be about twenty, and went to the RB three
or four years ago.

Helen, I'll add my experiences to yours as far as cats with less than 4
legs.  My Lady Bug, who went to a new home a few months back because of
my allergies to her long fur, had only three legs.  When she was given
to me by my vet, she had been in a accident.  She was hit by a car and
taken to my vet by a good Samaritan.  She almost lost her life, but made
it thanks to a very good and loving vet.  She did lose her front left
shoulder and leg though.  she was approximately two at the time.  The
people who 'owned' her didn't want her because she was 'injured' and
told vets to just put her to sleep.  What a waste of a beautiful cat and
an extremely fortunate slave that would have been !!!!!!!!!!!!  She had
her three legs up until the time of the accident, but came out of the
surgery for from being groggy without missing a beat.  You'd never have
known she was missing a leg.  She played, ran around the house, ripped
over furniture while playing and jumped just like any other cat.  In
fact, when playing with her favorite toy (the piece of denim attached to
a flexible wand by a special kind of thread ) she would jump higher than
any cat I've ever seen jump.  And that's no joke.  I've had several
people mention it when watching her play with that toy.  So here is
wishing LaNina lots of jumping in her future !!!!!!!!!

This is the first I have read about LaNina and TuTu and I shall purr
for her wellbeing and swift recovery.  I did some research but cannot
find a former story.  I, too, wonder what happened?  MLB