She Saved This Kitten On The Highway After He Was Run Over By A Car, And He’s Cost Her Over $8,000 In Vet Bills
In August, Tiffany Chou was driving on a highway when she noticed a kitten who had clearly been run over by a car.
She drove by and witnessed the kitten move his head, so she pulled her car off to the side of the road and went to help him.
“I opened my door and looked behind my car to see if it was alive,” she explained on a GoFundMe page.
“He really looked dead. I got out to go and look, and he was alive, but he couldn’t move his body. I reached down to pick him up, and he hissed at me, which I kind of loved.”
“My fellow cat people will understand that. I didn’t realize at the time that the moment I picked him up and put him in my car, whether he lived or died, was going to be my decision.”
She rushed the little orange guy to an emergency clinic, and some X-rays were taken. Tiffany was told he had a broken pelvis and two broken legs.
The vet she spoke to mentioned they could not perform the procedure he needed, so they recommended that she talk to the local Humane Society.
Tiffany did just that, but she was informed that due to the complications of the kitten’s injuries, they would most likely have to euthanize him.
She found a second vet to talk to, who stated they could perform the surgery the kitten needed. Tiffany didn’t have the money to pay for his pricey care, but her only other choice was to put him down.
GoFundMe – pictured above is the kitten Tiffany rescued from the highway
“I would have to pay an enormous amount of money or put this cat down that I just met just because he had broken legs,” she said.
“I decided that I had no idea how I was going to pay for it, but I had to help him. I would figure out how to pay for it later.”
“I know people will not understand why I did what I did and would have just had him euthanized. But as a born and bred cat lady and someone that’s been saving animals her entire life, that just wasn’t an option for me.”
The kitten has cost Tiffany more than $8,000 in vet bills so far. He had surgery, and in an update posted on August 19th, Tiffany said this kind little guy started walking again.
You can view Tiffany’s GoFundMe here.
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