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Where are you located? I used to live down south,and yes, heartworms are
one of the worst preventable things that happens down there. However, I found
that the Memphis Emergency clinic is actually fairly good, depending, of course,
on who's rotating through it as far as students and supervising vets goes.
Look at the bright side, the hit by car cat, if his wounds are confined to
one leg for the most part, COULD just get that leg amputated, and live a very
normal and happy life (if it doesn't end up healing as a functioning leg). In
fact, I think I'd be apt to consider that as a first course of action, a cleanly
amputated leg heals much faster than several ugly breaks, and would be MUCH less
painful of a recovery for the cat. Just something to consider...
The FELV guy will either pull through URI, or not, and there's not much you
can do there but hope, and keep your fingers crossed (and treat the URI just
like you would for any cat).
HW is treatable, if caught early enough, again, one of those things you
just have to do, and keep fingers crossed on, they either make it through
treatment, or don't. Other worms are easily cured. The pelvis baby is the only really urgent one you have, if you look at it
through rose colored glasses. And he's already improving!
It's all in the perspective. Funds can be raised, you can apply for IMOM,
or care credit, or any number of emergency animal funds that are out there (the
Rio Vista [horse grooming products] one might help you with the dogs, they
generally don't "do" cats).
Oh, and if I may inquire, how did the JRT become deaf? Injury, or born that
way?
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