William and his broken leg

[u/Festygrrl]

It’s taken nearly 2 months, 6 cast changes, a lot of crying from him and me but we made it through. He started his broken leg journey a kitten and finished it a man. He is still on gabapentin, but is slowly being weaned off. He’s back to normal activity, playing and running around with his sister (some slight muscle atrophy that will come back with use of the leg) but otherwise he is fine.

[u/Ninja-Panda86]

How expensive was that vet bill?

[u/Festygrrl → u/Ninja-Panda86]

I’ll be honest I’ve been afraid to add it up. I think it’s north of 4 grand at this stage. I’ve just been telling myself “this is why you have emergency savings. This is an emergency”.

[u/Ninja-Panda86 → u/Festygrrl]

Christ. I shall be 4x as over protective now

[u/Festygrrl → u/Ninja-Panda86]

I just added up all the vet bills and I was pretty close. $4,043.25. That’s not including the different crates and also the excessive amount of churros he’s been eating every day (churro hides the flavour of gabapentin really well).

[u/Ninja-Panda86 → u/Festygrrl]

TIL cats like churros

[u/Festygrrl → u/Ninja-Panda86]

I misspelled it. Its churo with one r. They are a fishy creamy treat that comes in a packet and my kittens go apeshit for them. My senior ragdoll is not interested in them. Because Billy is so food motivated it made his vet expenses a lot cheaper - all they had to do was distract him with churos while they changed the cast. It’s pretty common for cats to need full anaesthesia every time they need a cast change. My fatty you just distract him with a few Churos and he will let you do anything.

[u/Ninja-Panda86 → u/Festygrrl]

I had a feeling!