Two weeks before Halloween Houdini was catting around in the wee hours of the morning. When he didn't come home for breakfast Andrea and Eric found him caught in a wooden fence. He struggled so hard he fractured the bone above his knee. The only way to correct the problem was to insert a metal pin down the femur to skewer the fractured edges together. Here's Houdini ready to go into surgery. Notice Houdini's black hair color extends into the skin as well. Tiger and cheetahs