Story
Our little kitten Eleven was found abandoned on a dirt track at around 5 weeks of age. She was completely paralysed on her back end, and because of this vets thought she should be euthanized as they worried she would have no quality of life. We decided to give her a chance and I took her home, hoping with enough care and love eventually she would regain the use of her legs. We made her a wheelchair, tried acupuncture, massage and hydrotherapy. Eventually she started walking BUT unfortunately it became apparent that there was a problem with her bladder. Because of nerve damage, she was unable to urinate on her own. We manage this by expressing her bladder several times daily. But because she can't urinate on her own she frequently gets urine infections. The worry with this is that eventually antibiotics will become resistant and the infection may end up travelling to her kidneys, putting her into kidney failure. We have tried many different medications to see if they would help her urinate on her own, with no success. There is an operation that could help her urinate on her own but it would cost thousands of pounds which we cannot afford alone. Please help us pay for this special little cats ongoing vet treatment and hopefully if we raise enough the possibility for this life changing operation for her.