Miss Fruit Bat had her surgeries just over a week ago and is recovering well from them. She had pins put in both ankles to provide stability from the bones that were shattered. The pins were very small and it required a specialist to do the intense surgeries. Thus, Fruit Bat’s stay at Ohio State to get her legs fixed.
We have joked that she will not be able to go through airport security in a purse, like Paris Hilton’s little dogs, because she’d set off the security systems with her artificial, bionic legs.
We are happy to say that our girl is now hopping around in her casts. The staff at Noah’s Ark says she sometimes bounces around as if she is walking on something hot. But she is all sweetness, rushing to greet everyone who comes to the front counter from her safe spot in the back. Fruit Bat does have some problems on slick surfaces, but other than that, she is doing amazingly well for having had such difficult repairs done to her tiny toothpick legs.
Fruit Bat goes home each night with Dr. West and comes to Noah’s Ark for doggie daycare with her friends each day. Dr. West reports that Fruit Bat likes to burrow under the covers at night to sleep (which her cats do not like), and perhaps she has some “mole” tendencies as well as her batty ones.
We have had around $300 in donations come into our PayPal account. Dr. West has also collected some checks. We are planning to do a mailer and Colony Cats is also collecting donations, so we should be able to pay off the surgery debt very soon. In fact, the good news is that OSU ended up only charging around $1200 for the surgeries!! Thank you to OSU.
We’ll keep everyone posted as Miss Fruit Bat continues her journey to good health and, eventually, a new home and life.
Thanks so much for posting an update, complete with post-op photos! Fruit Bat’s news casts are adorable. Here’s wishing her a swift recovery
have you collected enough for the sweet girl? can you please advise?
Hi, Nicole–Our grand total, raised through Black and Orange, so far is close to $1,000. The surgeries cost around $1500. That does not include the expenses at Noah’s Ark Vet Clinic where Fruit Bat was taken when she was found. I’ve heard that those are several thousand, as well. I also don’t know how much Colony Cats has collected yet, since this has been a collaborative effort between several groups to keep this sweet girl from being euthanized.