I have no idea what it looks like in your country, but besides crowdfunding, which sounds like a good idea, aren't there any local animal welfare organizations you could try contacting? Maybe someone who's working with abused animals on a daily basis could give you some advice, not only when it comes to vet care, but also law and getting the money. Also, definitely make scans/copies of every bill you're paying for judicial proceeding (or whatever is it going to be).

Geez, I don't even know what else to say... I wish you the best of luck. My boyfriend's parents' dog recently got attacked by a dog of their neighbours, lost an eye and has many wounds on her throat and head, but managed to survive and is getting better every day, so I hope there's a chance also for your boyfriend's cat.

I am so sorry your poor kitty had to go through this. Are you looking into criminal proceedings towards the insert several colorful metaphors here who did this? I would sue him to within an inch of his worthless life. I agree with what Quidam said as to making copies of the vet bills for judicial proceedings. Let us know if you do crowdfunding - I'll donate and I'd bet a lot of others would too. If I were you, I'd contact a local humane society or rescue organization. I used to volunteer for one and most of them will give you lower cost vet care, if not help you out financially, especially if you tell them you're considering giving up the poor kitty because of your financial situation - they would much rather spend the money on helping a cat stay in a loving home instead of spending the money on taking care of the cat themselves until they can find it another home. Please let me know what happens, okay? I have two fur babies of my own, and quite honestly, I would be hard pressed not to beat the living shit of the son-of-a-bitch myself. I really hope everything goes well for you, your boyfriend, and sweet baby kitty.

His kitty, Cuddles, is in stable condition at my vets; eating and urinating just fine but still hasn't moved her tail. We're worried about that but it's too soon to expect any movement anyway. She is purring though when examined which is a good sign. As for crowd funding, we're definitely looking into it.

I'm sorry to hear about their dog; did they seek medical attention or just let him heal on his own?

As for the humane society; lol no. I did go to them saying that we were considering surrender if we couldn't get help (but obviously wanted help first) and they took that as an invitation to harass my boyfriend at work and my vets over it. I had to send them a stern email telling them to not do that again and reiterate the terms: that surrender was a last resort. When they called him the first time, they said his only option was surrender too. No option for financial aid, under the table care, nothing. To them, my guy "can't take care of her" if he can't pull $4-6k Canadian out of his ass to try and save her leg. (And that's just to start. If this doesn't work, then it's another 2-4k to amputate, same if her tail doesn't regain function and at least $1500 for her future dental. I know this from when my cat needed dental surgery and we went through the same process then.)

I asked if I could be first in line to adopt her if he did surrender her and got a spiel about how it's a "first come first serve" basis and that they have many factors to assess, especially since they know Kai doesn't like other cats (but liked the stray they helped me with.) I'm sure he'd love her btw since she's female and he's male (albeit fixed, but that instinct never dies.) But sure, hem and haw lady. e_e;

As for a GoFundMe, we just set one up... and I can't link it due to the TOS. SIGH.

Humane Society sucks hard, then. I'm quite surprised – I used to volunteer in a local organization, a kind of a cat shelter, and if we couldn't do anything for someone asking for help, at least we were giving phone numbers of our best vets and sharing donation requests on out Facebook (and people donated, there was a group who always donated – the organization itself survived thanks to such people, as the government doesn't care much).

Glad to hear the kitty is doing... fine, considering her state, let's say. Good she still wants to eat. Doesn't the tail move at all, any part? I just wonder, because in the organization we had some cats with damaged tails (broken at some point or completely limp), and in most cases amputation wasn't needed as long as there were no risk of infection.

I'm not happy about this decision at all. She doesn't deserve to lose her leg because of what this asshole did but our backs are against the wall. He doesn't want to surrender her and we can't afford the specialist clinics here. The one we tried outside of Toronto can't help for two weeks, but by then the injury will heal wrong, for sure and we're stuck doing this anyway.

I have no idea how her tail's doing; I'm just dreading the bill when it comes to that, if it comes to that. As for the humane society, IDK, it's just different here, I guess. The city has too many cats and is too expensive to live in. I'm considering moving after this because I've had it. Everything's cheaper outside of the city. Part of me is wondering if I should be like that mother and keep looking but we just don't have the time nor money... but I'm still not fine with this.

By the way, how old is the cat? Do you keep her at home or did she use to leave? Hovewer brutal it may sound, from my experience I think she'll get better even if amputation is inevitable, and the most important thing is to avoid her from getting infections from the wounds. She'll need time to learn how to walk and run again, but... yeah. Do you have any x-rays already? Could you upload it, or any other "current" information on the GoFundMe page? It just sucks so much everything sounds so expensive; it may be expensive here, too, especially if some complex rehabilitation is needed after the surgery, but... eh, I don't know. I've checked for other animal welfare organizations in Toronto, but it doesn't seem to be many of them; found also Toronto Cat Rescue and Cat Busters Animal Rescue, are they also that useless?

She's a four year old indoor and, it's funny you say that because, while I had a breakdown over the decision last night, we finally came to one: we chose to amputate the leg so he can keep her in his custody. I'm not in love with the decision as it means taking more than what I felt was necessary in order to keep her with us, but looking at her yesterday at the specialist? All she wanted was out of that cage and in her daddy's arms. It was heart breaking.

There was no comfort offered by the HS. They wouldn't tell us anything about her progress, care or even when they'd have her up for adoption; who knows if they would've kept the leg, especially considering the prices we were quoted by the specialist--though amputees are harder to adopt so who knows how much of their budget they'd blow on her?--but they hemmed and hawed so much over my request to adopt her, I couldn't trust them not to just skip over my application even if I was first in line. We could arrange others to join in the attempt but again, no guarantees of any of them getting approved.

Needless to say, we managed to get approved for the loan in order to do this but even that was a trial. Our beneficiary didn't bring any paper work with her so I ended up switching roles from cosigner to beneficiary. I'm much better suited to pay off this loan anyway, as she makes less than me. I've got to call them back at a less chaotic hour to discuss details like payment dates, rates, interest percentages, etc since our original cosigner was pressed for time and so was the woman helping us over the phone.

As for xrays, yes, we have them but seeing as we already came to the decision, it seems pointless to post them now but we have updated it with the decision we were forced to make. The specialist was confident it could be done "easily," but the price point made it impossible and the recovery time lengthy.

Eh... at least she's not that old, then, so chances are she'll recover faster. Of course it depends on the cat itself – I remember sterilizing my cat, vet told me she would spend a few hours sleeping and then about 2 days not leaving the box we brought her in at all, but after 2 hours or so I found her trying to go through the whole flat to reach her litter box – and beginnings, weeks, maybe months may be difficult, but she'll learn everything again, even if a lot of love and patience will be needed. But reading your posts, I'm sure she's getting those anyway.

Have you considered starting a public fund through GoFundMe or another platform so that people can chip in to help?

I'm sorry that you all had to go through this, none of you deserved what happened.

We've got one but it's against the TOS to link it here because it contains personal info.

That's for sure, and it's quite usual for cats to stop eating when they're stressed. But only for short time, especially since she needs a lot of energy now. I hope she'll start eating again soon, and giving her things that she knows and likes is a good idea. You may also try blending the food and giving it for her to lick from a finger or feeding her with a syringe (but without forcing her) if you think she may not want to eat because of the teeth.

Thanks so much for the advice. Luckily, she started eating again at the vets and is being very affectionate, which is her normal self, which is so relieving. Hopefully she'll be back by Wednesday the latest so we can start familiarizing herself with the apartment again. ^^