You may remember me posting about Mouse, the cat that arrived pregnant at our door in winter, and my efforts to find homes for her kittens. I did manage to place all but one of them, so we now have two cats, Mouse, and Cow, so named by my bratlings because she is white with black markings like a cow.
This is what Cow looked like a few months ago.
Now, the problem is, she is an escape artist. She will get out of the house any way she possibly can, because she wants to be outside, like her mother. (We let Mouse out, because she was an outdoor kitty to begin with. Both are fixed, so no worries about new kittens.) She's fast, so trying to catch her and bring her back inside when she doesn't want to be is difficult.
Yesterday, she returned from her adventures outside limping, and wearing a tire track on her hind leg. She curled up on the floor in one of the bedrooms, and refused to eat or drink anything. We were terrified she was going to die, and we weren't able to get ahold of anyone to ask for advice. We did the best we could to make her comfortable, and have been giving her some of the leftover pain medicine from when we got her fixed.
She's doing a bit better today, is eating and drinking some, and she stubbornly got up and made it to the litterbox under her own power, limping along on three legs. This has given us hope that it's just a broken leg, but we're still worried.
Now the point of this post, and the help that I am asking for, is this:
If you might know of a vet in the Houston area that is willing to take their payment in small installments rather than a big chunk, or possibly even work pro bono, please, please, PLEASE let me know. If not, please pass this on to someone who might. I would really appreciate it.
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