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Sandra Corr responds: This letter expands the discussion of feline wound management to include skin flaps, which were outwith the scope of the original article. The author provides interesting additional information; however, in my experience the majority of distal limb shearing injuries can be treated very successfully using appropriate basic wound managment and simple skin grafting. The author also comments on the use of omentum, the body's ‘natural patch’, which is often used in problem wounds such as the chronic, non-healing axillary wounds occasionally seen in cats. It should be recognised that the aetiology of these wounds is entirely different from shearing injuries, however, and omentalisation involves considerable additional morbidity for the cat, and is rarely, if ever, required for the treatment of distal limb shearing injuries.