That damn cat!

No it's not a star-rump.

I tried to find a picture of that legendary sternhinterteil deer, but it seems they were extinct before the camera was invented, and the only paintings of them known to exist were buried in the smoldering rubble of the National Museum in Berlin.

Anyway, they're similar to the Axis deer of India (basically a tall, skinny rodent with horns), only instead of being covered with "stars," like the Axis, they only had them on their butt. You can find the Axis on a zillion different web pages.

(My cat, Knuckles, been bugging me to post this for months now, so I figure this is as good a spot as any. By the way, it's a squirt gun, AND the safety was on, in case there's any PETAfreaks out there. And you know how hard it is to say no to a kitten, especially when it's standing there waving at you with both hands, mewing "squirt me, squirt me." )

Marrs