The place was kept by a deaf old lady and her tailless cat.

A tailless cat stepped out of the shadows and marched into the castle as though inspecting newly conquered territory.

A brown tailless cat blinked at him from the stairs, but there was something else, something dark and somber on the floor.

Yours may have come on the day you licked Stevie Ballard for gilding the tailless cat; it may not come till you are ninety.

Funny fat Japanese dolls and stuffed rabbits and cross-eyed, tailless cats demand attention.

And that surely was worth a trip to the Isle of Man, even if one failed to see one of their tailless cats.