"Ray" wrote in message ...
Do you own a cat or dog?

That sounds like a mechanical break of an otherwise healthy spike, to me.


That's what it sounds like to me too. I have three cats. Though they
have
never damaged an orchid, they have managed to wreak havoc on a couple
of cacti.

They enjoy rubbing themselves on the spines, for some perverse feline
reason. In doing so they have knocked new pads off opuntia and
tephrocacti.

I lecture them about it, but they ignore me.

J. Del Col