You're the real friendly type, aren't you?
stingo.

Several years ago we had a black cat with long hair.  My husband was making
coffee and stepped back and she had her tail under his foot.  She took off and
her tail stayed under his foot (about 3").  I thought my husband was going to
cry.  I tossed the end of her tail in the garbage and he took her to the vet
for a bandage.  He took the tail with and our vet glued her tail back on with
3M surgical glue and wrapped it in white tape.  10 days later the tape was
removed and Agatha had her beautiful tail back.

I agree,if he has a broken tail, who is to say he hasn;t got other injures,
in particular, some internal bleeding. He could;ve been hit by a car or a
person, bitten by a wild animal/dog and could be in real danger! Always
consider the worse.Pls take him to the vet NOW. He could be suffering really
badly right now.

And let us know what happens, pls.

Well, okay.  Cat and I spent the afternoon getting him checked out.  The
only reason I was even second guessing on going is the expense. [remember
the movie where Richard Gere is the lawyer, and he says "you have money
saved for a rainy day?  Guess what:  It's raaaaaiiiiinnnng!")

Though I am not a doctor, I am real familiar with medical situations.  It
was a relief to see the X-ray, which showed an increased space between the
vertebrae. It looked like something treatable.  So now he has a six-inch
section of his tail wrapped in bright green Coban!  It's a cast,
essentially, and now that the hurty-part is immobilized, it seems that he
could care less about this thing on his tail.  I thought that he would be
tearing it off in no time... but he seems oblivious to it.

He is back to his old self: fifteen pound long-haired red tabby, who is
entertaining himself with a catnip toy I made, also shredding the carpet pad
under my desk.

He's just fine, and thank you all for your advice

stingo

Okay, tail update:

He was happy with the bandage until he accidentally got out of the house.
When he came back in, the bandage had been pulled down about one inch, and
it seemed not to be comfortable to him anymore.  Within an hour he had
ripped the whole thing off entirely.  I took him back to the vet for
rebandaging.  This time I got a different vet than I had the first time.
She said there was really no use in bandaging it, as nothing was broken.  I
said to her "humor me.  Bandage it."  And so they took kitty away and
bandaged his tail again.  This time he got bright purple Coban!  He ripped
this bandage off in very short order, at which time I told him "your fate is
now in your own hands, kiddo."  I am keeping him inside and encouraging him
to rest... his tail looks good this morning... it has sensation and movement
and so we will take it one day at a time from here.

stingo