Ringo's Veterinary Surgery Appeal
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We are Cheryl & Jim & we are the proud owners of a lovely Tabby kitten called "Ringo". He was born Weds 29/04/2015 & we got him Thursday 18/06/2015.
He is light grey with black Tiger stripes & he has perfect black rings around his tail & back legs, hence the name "Ringo". Nothing to do at all about The Beatles. He has started to develop a beigey colour in his coat, & in some photos & different light, for some reason seems to have a slight orangey colour.
He's a right character, always friendly & loving & happy to see us, always following us around the house, always charging around & playing with his toys & stalking anything that moves, & then when he gets tired, jumps up for a fuss. Couldn't ask for a better loving cat.
Well... The nightmare started Friday 25th September in the morning. Our youngest son (19), went into the kitchen just before 9am to find our 5 month old kitten called Ringo up on top of the big 6ft tall fridge freezer. Our son got a chair from the dining room to get him down but as our son picked him up off the top, Ringo started to struggle & jumped from his arms onto a lino covered solid concrete floor. He landed awkwardly & broke his left rear leg just above the knee. We rung our vet in Borden Lane, Sittingbourne , Kent & said we are bringing him down straight away. He spent the whole day with the vet getting pain killers, X-rays & treatment & we had to pick him up at 5pm. He's already had his injections, booster next year & we've had him chipped by them.
The vet showed us the X-Rays & showed us it was a complete break just above his knee & said that if his leg was broke in the middle more, he could have done it there & then with a cast, but because it was in an awkward place above the joint, he said Ringo would need either an operation with an orthopaedic veterinary surgeon at Toachim House Veterinary Surgery in Faversham, Kent to have his leg pinned & plated costing around £1000, or have it amputated. We asked our vet if he had lost feeling in his leg, but the vet said no. He could still feel his leg & still feels the pain. We didn't need to think about it. We told the vet straight away that there was absolutely no way they were going to take his leg just because of money. We'd rather be in debt. It wouldn't be fair on Ringo to put money ahead of his wellbeing & health & a chance of his leg healing to give him as much as a normal life as possible.
We contacted Toachim House Veterinary Surgery , who said they have already been in touch with our vet & that they had already seen Ringo's X-rays & now they say the cost could be more around £2800 for the operation, it has now just literally more than doubled. X-rays, doctors notes & Estimate can be found in our forum link below.
http://yourpetforums.co.uk/thread/7842/advice-needed-huge-incoming-bill
Our line of thinking is that, Ringo still has, as far as our vet's concerned, full feeling in his leg. He's also still got a little bit of growing to do, he's still a kitten really, & when pinned together, & held with the cage thingy he will have to wear to stop the bones from moving, to us, our logic tells us that, what with the natural fusing, & with his bit of growing to do, hasn't he got a good chance of it healing to the point where he would have a better quality of life over the next 12-15 years with 4 legs rather than 3. It could be bit optimistic, but he may eventually get to the point in a year or two or 3, that all he has is a bit of a limp & a bit of arthritis. We just can't bring ourselves to justify the vets option of amputation just to save on the cost of treatment for a broken leg.
Ringo is booked in for his operation at Toachim House Veterinary Surgery tomorrow (29th September) and payment is due on collection. After the operation, they will be keeping him in overnight to recover from the anasthetic & for observation to make sure eveything went to plan.
Normally we would ask our parents to lend us the money but Jim's parents are unavailable &
my mum is in hospital in I.C.U and obviously my dad has other things on his mind right now. We've been turned down by the finance company used by the vet for things like this, turned down for credit cards & loans and now don't know how we are going to pay for Ringo's surgery. We have been frantically trying everything we can think of over the last few days to raise the money & now we have no where else to turn.
We know money is tight for everyone, not just us, but please, please help us bring our baby home.
For all the details and xrays, costings, vets notes, click on the forum link below.
Read more: http://yourpetforums.co.uk/thread/7842/advice-needed-huge-incoming-bill#ixzz3n4ICkldq
He is light grey with black Tiger stripes & he has perfect black rings around his tail & back legs, hence the name "Ringo". Nothing to do at all about The Beatles. He has started to develop a beigey colour in his coat, & in some photos & different light, for some reason seems to have a slight orangey colour.
He's a right character, always friendly & loving & happy to see us, always following us around the house, always charging around & playing with his toys & stalking anything that moves, & then when he gets tired, jumps up for a fuss. Couldn't ask for a better loving cat.
Well... The nightmare started Friday 25th September in the morning. Our youngest son (19), went into the kitchen just before 9am to find our 5 month old kitten called Ringo up on top of the big 6ft tall fridge freezer. Our son got a chair from the dining room to get him down but as our son picked him up off the top, Ringo started to struggle & jumped from his arms onto a lino covered solid concrete floor. He landed awkwardly & broke his left rear leg just above the knee. We rung our vet in Borden Lane, Sittingbourne , Kent & said we are bringing him down straight away. He spent the whole day with the vet getting pain killers, X-rays & treatment & we had to pick him up at 5pm. He's already had his injections, booster next year & we've had him chipped by them.
The vet showed us the X-Rays & showed us it was a complete break just above his knee & said that if his leg was broke in the middle more, he could have done it there & then with a cast, but because it was in an awkward place above the joint, he said Ringo would need either an operation with an orthopaedic veterinary surgeon at Toachim House Veterinary Surgery in Faversham, Kent to have his leg pinned & plated costing around £1000, or have it amputated. We asked our vet if he had lost feeling in his leg, but the vet said no. He could still feel his leg & still feels the pain. We didn't need to think about it. We told the vet straight away that there was absolutely no way they were going to take his leg just because of money. We'd rather be in debt. It wouldn't be fair on Ringo to put money ahead of his wellbeing & health & a chance of his leg healing to give him as much as a normal life as possible.
We contacted Toachim House Veterinary Surgery , who said they have already been in touch with our vet & that they had already seen Ringo's X-rays & now they say the cost could be more around £2800 for the operation, it has now just literally more than doubled. X-rays, doctors notes & Estimate can be found in our forum link below.
http://yourpetforums.co.uk/thread/7842/advice-needed-huge-incoming-bill
Our line of thinking is that, Ringo still has, as far as our vet's concerned, full feeling in his leg. He's also still got a little bit of growing to do, he's still a kitten really, & when pinned together, & held with the cage thingy he will have to wear to stop the bones from moving, to us, our logic tells us that, what with the natural fusing, & with his bit of growing to do, hasn't he got a good chance of it healing to the point where he would have a better quality of life over the next 12-15 years with 4 legs rather than 3. It could be bit optimistic, but he may eventually get to the point in a year or two or 3, that all he has is a bit of a limp & a bit of arthritis. We just can't bring ourselves to justify the vets option of amputation just to save on the cost of treatment for a broken leg.
Ringo is booked in for his operation at Toachim House Veterinary Surgery tomorrow (29th September) and payment is due on collection. After the operation, they will be keeping him in overnight to recover from the anasthetic & for observation to make sure eveything went to plan.
Normally we would ask our parents to lend us the money but Jim's parents are unavailable &
my mum is in hospital in I.C.U and obviously my dad has other things on his mind right now. We've been turned down by the finance company used by the vet for things like this, turned down for credit cards & loans and now don't know how we are going to pay for Ringo's surgery. We have been frantically trying everything we can think of over the last few days to raise the money & now we have no where else to turn.
We know money is tight for everyone, not just us, but please, please help us bring our baby home.
For all the details and xrays, costings, vets notes, click on the forum link below.
Read more: http://yourpetforums.co.uk/thread/7842/advice-needed-huge-incoming-bill#ixzz3n4ICkldq
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