Jasper...the bionic cat...

Hi Holly,

Well it's been a hectic week... Jasper got run over a week ago, and it was 10 hours before he was found in a garden down the road. He was taken to an emergency vet, where they tracked us down and we went and picked him up and brought him back to our usual vet in Brighton. He had been hit in his back legs and had damaged his pelvis, broken one leg and ruptured the knee of his other. Things did not look good...

For 2 days it looked like he would die, but the lovely people at the New Priory Animal Hospital managed to stabilise him, and they referred him to an orthopaedic surgeon to get his broken bones sorted out. He was operated on last Tuesday, and now has pins and screws through his various broken bones, which will take about 3 months to fully heal. He still wasn't out of the woods though, because he had also damaged his liver, and unless they could get him to eat, he could have died of liver disease, as he was very jaundiced. It was touch and go for a couple of days, but with the help of some of his favourite fish, which he couldn't resist even though he was on death's door, he pulled through.

He can't walk and has his broken leg all bandaged up, but he has come home for the weekend (hurrah!!!) and we are making a huge fuss of him. He's got to go back to the vets next week and live in a cage for about 6 weeks, but after that, he should be alright - he has very definitely used up at least one of his 9 lives!!

You probably won't remember Jasper, but you went and chose him and Rosie (his sister who died in a road accident about 4 years ago), when they were kittens, and brought them home as a surprise for me after Jinksy died (that's another story...)

Anyway, that has been what's going on here this week - oh, and Brighton and Hove Albion getting to the play-off finals in the most dramatic manner - and we were there! I hope we can have a serious talk about the Albion one day - my friend takes his 10 year old daughter to all the games and she really enjoys it - it would have been nice if I could have taken you too...

Anyway, must get back to the bionic cat... blog to you again soon.
Dad xxx