This my friends- is a cat toenail.
This was found deeply embedded in the pad of a 15yo domestic longhair. The O said they could never groom her or handle her paws and it had been three years since her last vet visit.
This is so bad, and so very sad. We try day in and day out to stress the importance of yearly pet visits. Even if the owner had not been able to examine the cat themselves, a veterinarian surely would have found this during the comprehensive examination and it probably never would have gotten this bad.
Even cats need annual examinations!
