My cat doesn't even look like a cat anymore.
A stray dog tore Luna's face apart. The vet bill is $14,550 and I have days, not weeks, to save her sight.
It was just past 11pm when I opened the back door. Luna was lying on the patio — not sleeping, not resting. Lying in a way cats don't lie when everything is okay.
I didn't recognise her. Her face was so swollen my brain couldn't process it was her. A stray dog had gotten into the garden. Her right eye was bulging. Her left eye was matted shut with blood.
I drove her to the emergency vet at midnight. She has a deep corneal scratch that needs a specialist surgeon — or she loses her sight. A torn ear. Infected bite wounds requiring ICU monitoring.
Luna's eye gets worse every hour we wait. Please don't scroll past her.
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It was just past 11pm when I opened the back door. Luna was lying on the patio. Not sleeping, not resting. Lying in a way that cats don't lie when everything is okay.
I took one step toward her and froze. Because I didn't recognise her. I've had Luna for four years. She sleeps on my pillow every night. She's the first thing I see when I open my eyes. And I did not recognise her.
Her face was so swollen, so completely wrong, my brain couldn't process that it was her. Then she moved. This tiny exhausted little movement. She dragged her chin along the concrete trying to headbutt my hand. That's when I fell apart.
A stray dog had gotten into the garden — the place she'd been safe every day for four years. Her right eye was bulging in a way eyes are not supposed to bulge. Her left eye was matted shut with blood. Half her face felt soft under my hands, in places it should not be soft. And through all of it, she was still trying to comfort me.
I wrapped her in a blanket and drove to the emergency vet at midnight. She has a deep corneal scratch that needs a specialist surgeon — or she loses her sight. A torn ear. Infected bite wounds requiring ICU monitoring. She's on strong IV antibiotics, but they're buying us time, not a fix.
I emptied my savings that first night. I cancelled a trip I'd been saving for months. I've been living on pasta and toast. I'm not a charity. No team, no sponsor. It's just me — a normal person with a normal job, begging you to help me save my cat.
Luna's eye gets worse every hour we wait. We're not talking weeks. We're talking days. Right now, as you read this, she is breathing. Her heart is beating. She is still here. Please don't scroll past her.
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