Going Tripawd - Funding Simple Cat's surgery

This is Simple Cat.

I got him from a shelter back in 2010, he was around 7 months old and had already been hit by a car [he is a bit brain damaged now, hence his name] and returned to the shelter once for being ‘too clingy’.

In 2016, he moved all the way from Germany to the UK with me.

He's literally my son.

I gave birth to him.

I've had him longer than I had my parents and this stinky little creature is genuinely the light of my life, my whole entire world, and I don't know what I'd do without him.

For the past couple of months, he's had a recurring infection in his left hind paw, that initially responded to antibiotics but keeps coming back with a vengeance. The vets are clueless as to what causes the infection as there's no external sign of any injuries, there's no broken bones and he's not limping; his paw and foot are just extremely swollen - it looks like he's wearing a comically large mickey mouse glove.

He's gotten an x-ray and a sample from his enlarged lymph node taken just to rule out cancer and to see if the x-ray will show any foreign object that would show up on an x-ray such as metal or a little stone, which wasn't the case. This alone already cost me £700 that I don't have but was able to borrow for the time being.

Due to the coat of CT scans and surgery on top potentially costing up to £6k, he's now in line to join the tripawds - meaning his hind leg would be amputated [which isn't as bad as it sounds, cats do pretty well with 3 legs and he's strictly indoors and his favourite thing nowadays is sleeping and not doing parcours] which will cost around £1500.

That's another £1500 I don't have.

I'm not very good at writing these things because they feel like a sales pitch; I have to convince a bunch of strangers on the Internet that my cat is worth their money, that he's worth saving ‘despite’ already being almost 16 years old. It feels like needing to justify and explain myself why I can't pay for it. It feels like admitting that I've let him down. It's humiliating, but he's my everything.

Anything helps, if it's £50, £5, or just sharing the link to this gofundme

Thank you

Kat & Simple Cat