Fundraising for wounded tabby totals five times amount needed
The Ottawa Humane Society has blown through its fundraising goal for the medical care needed to rehabilitate Gulliver, an orange tabby cat found outside of Ottawa last week with “horrendous wounds to his jaw.”
OHS believes the cat was shot. After the cat was rushed to a veterinary clinic in Clarence-Rockland by Good Samaritans and transferred to the humane society, X-rays revealed a broken jaw, broken teeth and bullet fragments.
Despite his injuries, OHS said Friday that, by Day 2 in their care, “Gulliver was acting friendly and giving head-butts to OHS clinic staff, eating, and seemed comfortable on his medications.”
OHS is planning for the “extensive surgery” they say the cat requires to repair his jaw, and his care is expected to cost more than $3,000.
As of Friday, an OHS spokesperson said more than $15,700 had been raised by the OHS fundraising campaign for Gulliver.
According to OHS, the longterm plan for the one-year old tabby includes careful monitoring post-surgery, placement in foster care and a new home when he's ready.
OHS says any donated money left after Gulliver's medical needs
are taken care of “will help provide emergency care for Ottawa's most vulnerable animals and will ultimately help more homeless pets find their forever homes.”
Ottawa police confirmed Friday that they learned Wednesday from a provincial animal welfare inspector that a cat had been brought to an animal hospital with serious injuries on Oct. 9.
“The file was assigned and is being investigated,” police said.