Run-over cat dies after owner pays for £800 operation
A CAT run over by a hospital worker had the operation it needed but died just a day later.
Kimahra was struck by a car last week and her owner Laura Edgeworth, 24, came forward after an appeal was published in The Citizen.
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BROKEN PELVIS: Kimahra.
She paid £800 for an operation on the cat's pelvis, which was broken.
But yesterday the cat died at 1.30am.
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A receptionist from Gloucestershire Royal Hospital accidentally hit Kimahra as she drove to work on Great Western Road.
Offers of donations flooded in from more than 50 kind-heartedCitizen readers, but the money wasn't needed when Miss Edgeworth, who is seven months pregnant, spotted her cat in the newspaper.
The offers of help ranged from £5 to £500 to help pay for treatment.
One 93-year-old woman from King's Stanley even offered to forgo her new sofa by stumping up £500 for the fund.
She said: "I was thinking, what does a 93-year-old need with a new suite?
"I support all the animal charities and just wanted to do something to help."
Cat lover Tony Triffitt, who was also willing to dig deep, said: "I don't like to see any animal in distress. I read about it and thought I had to do something."
Miss Edgeworth said: "The number of people who offered to help is amazing. I want to thank them all."
Miss Edgeworth and the receptionist have struck up a new friendship after the ordeal.
She said: "I don't blame her at all and I'm not angry at her. She did the right thing by stopping as most people wouldn't these days."
Comments
by Dr_Hfrrrrr
Sunday, October 14 2012, 6:18PM
“Hard luck story about the owner (with obligatory 'sad face with folded' arms pic) due in 3, 2, 1....”
by Douglasknows
Sunday, October 14 2012, 12:54PM
“I wonder about some vets. There was a lady near me that took her 15 year old cat to the vet and was charged £600 for scans etc. only to be told at the end of it that she should feed her cat less meat!”
by FreeRadical1
Saturday, October 13 2012, 3:20PM
“That's really sad.”