Good golly miss Molly
Molly has one life less
If it is true that cats really do have nine lives then moggy Molly must have used up most of them.
She was found with dreadful injuries after being trapped in a car engine.
Now animal lovers throughout East Kilbride are giving her a fighting chance by donating funds to help her grateful owners pay her vet bills.
A curious cat is lucky to be alive after losing a leg while trapped inside a car engine.
The traumatised little moggy was found soaked in blood and cowering in the doorway of shocked Calderwood resident Susan Nicholson’s home in Maxwellton Road.
With the help of neighbours, Susan took the terrified animal inside and alerted the Scottish SPCA.
She told the News: “The wee thing’s face was bleeding and it looked spooked. We assumed, because we live on a busy road, it had been run over by a car.
“Then we discovered one of its front legs was missing.
“She was hurting, giving out a few distressed meows, but you could tell she was a wee fighter.”
Once the SSPCA arrived they discovered the tiny two-year-old cat was microchipped and its name was Molly. They were able to track down its worried owners, who had already put out an appeal on Facebook for their missing pet.
Due to the severity of Molly’s injuries, animal rescue officers feared that she had been tortured.
It was only when she veterinary treatment that they decided, from extensive burns to the underside of her body, that the cat had climbed into a car engine and sheared its leg off on a fan blade or belt while trying to escape.
As well as undergoing an operation to treat her infected stump, Molly had to have her shoulder and some toes on her other front paw amputated and lost a few teeth.
Susan (48) said: “We thought something more sinister had happened as it was such a clean cut it looked like her leg had been sawn off.
“She must have been terrified, trapped inside the engine.
“The fact that she has survived the odds and come through the operation is incredible.
“She has so much fighting spirit and is slowly but surely making progress.”
Susan broke the news to Molly’s owners Karen and Lorn Gibson and their two teenage daughters, who were heartbroken to learn of their beloved pet’s frightening ordeal.
They had only in the last year lost their last pet cat in tragic circumstances when it was run over by a car.
Molly is now recovering back home in Calderwood but, with vet treatment ongoing and her pet insurance maxed out, her mounting vet bills are now into the thousands.
Susan, who the Gibsons have described as Molly’s guardian angel, has set up a fundraising page which has raised nearly £400.
She appealed to the animal lovers of East Kilbride to dig deep to help the family and keep their miraculous moggy alive.
Susan said: “The bills are crippling the owners now and every penny donated will go towards her ongoing care.
To make a donation visit https:// crowdfunding.justgiving.com/ Mollysvetcare.