Help support Reaper's recovery from Emergency Surgery

Hi fellow feline servants and feline lovers,

This morning, I found a tiny puddle of fluid near my cat Reaper while I was leaving to cover transport as a volunteer for FieldHaven Feline Center. He seemed okay at the time, and I have other cats, so I couldn't be sure it was from him or what exactly it was. But later this afternoon, when I returned home, he got up and went to the litter box and strained for a solid minute with no result, and I got a sick feeling in my stomach.

I had to leave to go pick up cats for return transport for FieldHaven, so I asked my mother to take him to the vet while I was gone (right away, and I'd meet her there as soon as I finished transporting). After I left, he showed signs that he was 100% experiencing a urinary blockage, and thankfully, the vet got him right in, and my mother rushed him there. He went in for immediate surgery after we put a $2400 deposit on the last of my mother's credit card just so the vet could go ahead and work on him.

Now we're looking at an initial estimate of up to $3400 for the surgery. He is now recovering and is expected to need at least two days of hospitalization, and that deposit we already paid is going to be very hard to pay back and puts us in essentially a financial crisis.

Only in the most extenuating circumstances do I ever really ask for help, and in this case, my cat Reaper needs that help, and he's been through enough that I owe it to him to ask.

Before he ever had to deal with this, I found him freshly abandoned back in March of this year, hiding under my car, genuinely starving to death. He is the most laid-back, tolerant cat I've ever met, and when I found him, he was a literal skeleton—someone could have used him for an anatomy lesson he was so severely malnourished. He had an upper respiratory infection, and a couple of weeks later, developed wet FIP. He's been through 84 days of treatment and is still undergoing treatment for FIP as his numbers aren't quite there to go into observation and move toward being considered cured. The world was against him, and he's the kindest cat—everybody can be his friend; he just wants love and snuggles. I called to him when I first saw him, and he trotted right to me, let me pick him up, and immediately started purring.

Now, we face an unknown recovery period from this surgery, as well as continuing the fight against FIP so Reaper can finally live the life he deserves. If you can donate or share, even the smallest amount helps. Any excess will be donated to FieldHaven to help other cats and their dedicated caregivers, who might find themselves in need the way I now do.