In the countryside of Taiwan during earlier times, most cats that had an overly long tail which hung down, or the tip of whose tails were white, could rarely escape the fate of having their tails lopped off, in order to ward off bad luck.
貓尾過長而下垂不振，或尾端為白色，早期台灣鄉間，為了去霉運，多半難逃被截斷的命運。