Will this chipmunk live?

my mother in laws cat, got a chipmunk but didnt kill it, she bit it pretty hard and then when it got away the cat tor its tail off leaving only the bone hanging off its body, it got up and started running in circled and i picked it up with a shirt and put it on my deck where it lives in a hole and it ran in its hole. will it live? I just feel so bad for it.





I was going to kill it when it was just breathing hard because i thought it was suffering, but then it got up, so thats why i didnt.Will this chipmunk live?
Take him to the vet that's so cruel leaving the poor thing to suffer.Will this chipmunk live?
His tail would have been fine, however, if he has any puncture wounds from the cat biting him, then he's as good as dead unfortunately. Even animals that are medically treated for cat bite wounds have a hard time. One that is left untreated is going to die of bacterial infection if it doesn't die from some other complication. Keep the cat indoors to prevent similar disasters to wildlife, disasters to the cat itself (fox, coyote, dog attack, getting hit by a car, attacks from other cats, etc) and unwanted litters if the cat is unaltered.
Chipmunks, in common with some other rodent species, will shed a tail easily as an escape mechanism. (That's one of the reasons you should never pick a pet gerbil up by the tail!).





Most rodents that lose a tail will survive. The chipmunk will probably live as long as it wasn't bitten severely anywhere else on it's body.





Hope that makes you feel a bit better.
The life of even a healthy chipmunk is very hard, and involves much suffering already...





It may still live a long life as a wounded veteran chipmunk...
take him to an animal hospital

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