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My cat got into my centioede's cage today and now it has no tail? It seems otherwise fine except for a little exhaustion. How necessary is its tail for daily life/activities?

I doubt you have anything to worry about. Once the animal learns to balance itself, life will go on as normal. Ive seen plenty of cats with no tail or a partial tail, and they seem to be fine.

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I know I wrote this message a long time ago, but upon rereading it and the response it almost sounds like my cat lost the tail, not the centipede. I did not know at the time they were called terminal legs, and was very worried my poor centipede needed them for hunting. They have since grown back, and almost the exact day they did I saw my cat eyeballing the poor thing again, as if she was planning another snack. I assume she got bit by the centipede, or else more than the terminal legs would be gone. I guess its bite isn't even lethal to a small cat.