I've had my first hands on cat rescue tonight and I'm still a bit shaky about it. I had gone up to wait for the bus to go to our branch commitee meeting and I'm standing there minding my own business and watching these 4 little girls who were playing. Anyway one of them came over to me and said they had found a cat and they thought there was something wrong with it as it couldn't get up. The bus stop is right beside the very busy bypass and then there are some openings between the houses that go from the front to the back and this poor cat was just lying there and not moving, it looked like a problem with one of its back legs. Of course I had left my phone on charge so I asked the girls if they would keep an eye on her while I went and got my phone. So off I dashed down the street, came in and grabbed my phone hoping it had enough charge to let me call someone and grabbed my cat carrier and dashed back up the street. Managed to ring one of the girls from the branch and ask her to come and get me so we could take the cat to the emergency vets. One of the girls helped me get the cat in the carrier and then off I went to wait for Alison and we took the cat up to the emergency vet. Unfortunately it is Vets Now but they were actually very nice. They said they would put it through as an RSPCA case for them to pay for the emergency but I did say we were from CP and to ring me if it was likely to cost more than RSPCA would cover as I knew they would have to pts if we didn't help and it was a big bill.
Anyway, just got back from the meeting and got a call on my mobile from the vet. She was lovely and she says she thinks it is a pelvic fracture and possibly worse but they wouldn't know unless they did x-rays etc. She said obviously they were limited in what they could do under RSPCA rules so she would likely have to put the cat to sleep. Well of course I said no problem we will at least give her a chance and see if she can be sorted out and she said she had hoped I would say that as she didn't want to pts. So now I am trying to sort out getting her picked up from Vets Now early in the morning and then transferred to our normal vets so they can do x rays etc. The vet said the cat is fairly comfortable at the moment as she's had morphine and is on a drip so she was happy to keep her there overnight until we can get her transferred. I don't drive unfortunately and of course they need her picked up quite early.
She is a gorgeous cat, tortie, tabby and white and such a love, I hope we can do something for her. She had a collar on but no tag, don't know if they checked for a microship but our vets will.
I have to say those 4 little girls were stars in spotting her and then asking for help so thank you to them.
Sorry for the long post but please send some positive vibes for this little girl.
