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Discovered another wound on the cat last night:  a claw is missing. Entirely. It appeared to be healing well enough but I took him to the vet to be sure.  He bent Java's foot to extrude what would have been his nail, and this tiny pink triangle of naked flesh broke the crust on the scab and glistened, a thing that ought not to see daylight.  I rarely get squicked, but this was squickworthy. Ooph. He was taken to The Back Room, his foot Novacaine'd, cut, cleaned & wrapped into a purple club foot. He was, as usual, a model patient. I requested pain meds, he rec'd an injection of an extended-release analgesic. He's going to hate staying inside for days.

I've got to find out what cat is doing this to him. It doesn't seem possible that it's Phoenix, the usual nemesis. The other cat has to have had injuries also, and P'x has none.