I love my big nawtee boy! I went away for a few days. When I left his toe was still very sore (he was still holding it in the air all the time), he wouldn't let me look at it, and there was a large scab at the base of the pad. When I came home tonight, I put my suitcase down and picked him up (all in the same motion ) and checked out his paw... and I was very happy to see it is healing WONDERFULLY, but sad to see my fears confirmed. It appears he DID manage to rip out the nail. All that he has now is a vein, no nail. Here's his toe... rather odd looking, but not at all sore to him.


Here he is getting lots of belly rubs for being a good boy while I inspected the toe. He didn't fuss at all and laid happily while I checked everything out.


Now I'm going to be hyper about checking the toe to make sure a nail begins to grow. Call me a worried meowmie. I sure do wish I knew what he did to pull out that nail.