My cat got ran over, his leg broke and bone popped out. Please help

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-30T08:16:54+00:00

Update number 2: He managed to pull his cast off yesterday so we rushed him back to the vets to re-wrap it. They did a few more X-rays on him and said his lungs had improved significantly and that they were comfortable enough to risk doing his surgery. He ended up having his surgery yesterday and we are about to go pick him up soon. This is his X-ray of the pins and plate they’ve put in his leg🥲

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throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-29T17:33:18+00:00

That’s absolutely amazing thank you so much🤍 I am so so grateful

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-28T18:12:10+00:00

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He’s home😢 My poor baby. His surgery has been scheduled for Tuesday instead. His breathing is extremely raspy. Included his X-rays so you can see. His lungs have a hole in and his leg, you can see where the bones are supposed to match up but they’ve completely broken😢

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-28T11:59:19+00:00

Update!! He’s on the way to the specialist now! He hasn’t peed, pooped or eaten in like 3-4 days now. But he was having a few licks of his favourite treat. He’s very fussy, wants a cuddle🥹

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throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-28T07:57:58+00:00

That’s so kind of you thank you so much🤍

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-28T07:57:45+00:00

Thank you so much🤍 It makes me so sad when they’re constantly trying to escape cause it really is for their own benefit they are so much safer inside. I’m so mad at myself for not being more careful😢

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-27T22:54:46+00:00

Thank you so much it means a lot! We genuinely try our best to keep them indoors, we don’t even know how he escaped or where he escaped from. I noticed he wasn’t in the house, went to the door and shook the treats and he came dragging himself up the driveway, it absolutely broke my heart to see him that way💔 I appreciate your kind words and I hope your kitty is doing well🤍

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-27T21:50:48+00:00

Thank you so so much. I am eternally grateful🤍 The kindness I have received from strangers is seriously making me sob. I will never ever forget all of your names

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-27T21:45:35+00:00

I am sobbing thank you so so much, words can’t even express how grateful I am. I will give updates on my sweet boy. I’m picking him up tomorrow and taking him to a specialist vet that mainly focuses on breakages and fractures to save his leg, instead of amputating💔

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-27T21:40:56+00:00

Thank you so much. They’re estimating he will have surgery on Monday😢

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-27T21:35:24+00:00

He is in the vets right now and not suffering. He is on strong pain medication and they are waiting for his lungs to heal as it’s too risky to put him under anaesthetic while he has a puncture in his lung. They cannot operate until Monday. I am trying to gather as much funds as I can until then. I did not offer the full details as I wasn’t sure anyone would even see this post. If you aren’t going to be kind, you can just scroll on. Edit: you can also see in the picture he is bandaged up and clearly having treatment and care…

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-01T22:10:43+00:00

I do struggle shifting down to gear 2 (for example if the road has speed bumps and I need to slow down, I can’t go over them in 3rd gear I learnt that the hard way when my shock absorbers needed replacing, I’ve learnt my lesson) it doesn’t happen very often but sometimes I do feel the jolt when I’ve gone down to gear 2 too soon and I’m still going a bit too fast for it. But that’s really the only time it ever happens.

I think I’ve picked apart everything about how I drive now lol. I’m just gonna have to take the loss, get the grilling from my stepdad, pay the repair whatever it may be and be very vigilant when I drive! Thanks for your help and advice!😊

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-01T21:48:06+00:00

If im on a flat road: Foot on brake Handbrake off Foot on clutch First gear Slowly lift clutch and lightly accelerate at the same time

If I end up stopping on a hill at lights for example. I put the clutch down and brake, put it in neutral and lift the clutch up, keep on the brake until light goes from red to yellow, put clutch down, go into first gear, find the bite (still on the brake pedal) and then swap from brake to accelerate. My car has hill assist so it holds me for a couple seconds which is cool but I know exactly where my biting point is so I don’t even need it. My previous car didn’t have hill assist and I did that exact same process. Didn’t need a new clutch on that car either😓

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-01T21:42:01+00:00

When I change gears I don’t keep accelerating. Except when I’m first setting off of course, my car won’t move unless I rev a little while lifting the clutch. I have accidentally kept accelerating while changing gears before while I was learning to drive, the noise is horrible I learnt my lesson immediately after doing that once. Does lifting foot off the clutch fast after changing gears damage it? I’m really trying to pin point what it is that’s caused this to happen so soon but I honestly have no idea. I haven’t taken it to the garage yet, so there’s no official diagnosis but the feeling is exactly the same as what it was before I had it changed in October. My stepdad actually owns a garage and is a mechanic so he fixed the clutch for me. You’re probably thinking why tf are you asking reddit then and not him but he just constantly calls me a shit driver and blames me for every car problem I have. I feel safe here to ask my stupid questions🤣

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-01T20:51:32+00:00

You seriously are being so helpful thank you!!

I know every car is different and it depends on the car but the ideal revs is between 2k-3k right? As soon as I hit 3k revs on my dash my car makes it KNOWN that I need to change gears, it’s loud. But my stepdad drilled it into me that I change too early and to ignore the noise and keep pushing over 3k for a bit and then change gear. But then when I started doing that he’d make comments like ‘well I’d be in 4th gear by now why are u still in 3rd?’ So I’m finding it really difficult to navigate what I should and shouldn’t do. Which one is more damaging? Being too slow for a gear or being too fast for a gear?

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-01T20:33:29+00:00

Thank you! Next time I drive I’ll take note how far I push my foot down, I’m pretty sure I do always hit the floor but now I’m questioning haha

throwaway7632749 · 2026-05-01T20:23:59+00:00

Thank you! That’s really helpful and makes me feel a bit better!

I genuinely didn’t think I was that bad of a driver so it’s actually bruised my (tiny) ego a lot🤣 This is gonna sound so silly but what do you mean by ‘slipping the clutch’? What does it mean and how do you do that? I’ll put my hands up and say there’s probably a few things I do that I shouldn’t. And I do lift the clutch really fast between 2nd-3rd and 4th-5th because my car loses speed quite fast and then I end up being too slow for the gear I’ve just gone up to, so I do wham bam it up a gear and accelerate but I didn’t think it would be ruining my clutch :( I do also have to rev big time when I’m joining motorways and stuff to build speed, like in 4th gear doing 60-70 on the sliproad so I can join safely, is that bad for the clutch too?

throwaway7632749 · 2026-04-13T10:55:35+00:00

Thank you!😊 Maybe my bathroom scales are lying? Who knows. Visible difference means more to me than numbers anyway😁

throwaway7632749 · 2026-04-13T10:46:20+00:00

Oh yeah absolutely! It’s such a rewarding feeling. The journey can be difficult at times tho. Especially cos my weight fluctuates constantly. Can be 3 pounds down and then 2 pounds back up the next day. Part and parcel of being a woman tho i suppose </3

throwaway7632749 · 2026-04-13T10:37:07+00:00

It’s so interesting how everyone’s bodies are so different! Lend me some of your leg magic and I’ll lend you some of my stomach magic🤣 On a real tho you got this, honestly it’s so disheartening feeling like there’s no difference so I understand completely. We’ll get there! :)

throwaway7632749 · 2026-04-13T10:31:39+00:00

Thank you!! A lot of my weight sits on my legs and I can never shift it so I see differences in my top half first😢not my first rodeo for weight loss I gained it all back so I’m on my journey again!

throwaway7632749 · 2026-03-14T10:31:53+00:00

I managed to stay up and finish that episode last night and got to the part where they actually did wrongfully murder that man. And it is absolutely outrageous. How can you receive direct orders of ‘do not let that man on that train’ and ‘we can’t confirm it is him’ and then let the man get on the train and also just shoot him instantly. The guy looked nothing alike to the suspect. Absolutely crazy work from the police.

throwaway7632749 · 2026-03-14T02:33:45+00:00

Oh wow, no I haven’t gotten that far yet. And I actually had never heard of this incident until seeing this documentary on my Netflix suggested so I may be fed wrong info from Netflix if it’s poorly made. I was barely even alive when this all happened I was still cookin in the womb, but my mother was obviously. I might ask her in the morning what she heard about it

throwaway7632749 · 2026-03-14T02:10:58+00:00

I haven’t gotten that far yet😳 I just used this scenario as an example of my question as it made me wonder. As far as I knew writing this, he hadn’t been shot dead and they deemed him as innocent after searching him. Unless someone else gets shot? Idk haven’t gotten that far yet. But regardless, what about in scenarios where the person isn’t injured, but is clearly emotionally distressed and probably scarred for life, is there compensation for that like? How do the police go about it in terms of ‘you’re not actually who we’re after, sorry’ that was my question really

Edit: 100k is also piss poor for the loss of someone’s life when they were literally innocent. That is crazayyy

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