The Sad Truth about Bongo

Are you familiar with the Cat House on the Kings  - look up on Facebook and follow the story of Marmalady - she's a tripod kitten like Bongo will be and she's just moved to Canada with her new momma into her furever home.  She's got a great, full kitten life.  Bongo will find the same love and attachment and will have a great life!

{hugs}

Sorry this has come to pass for you and Bongo.

Precious little Bongo is lucky to have you looking out for him! Cats do really well after amputation, especially when they're young. We have Luke at our rescue in AZ who lost a front leg and he gets around remarkably well and is very strong, playful, and energetic. Imagine THAT for Bongo!

*PRAYERS* ongoing and love outpouring for Bongo.  Bless his heart! What a sweet little man, and so irresistibly cute.  In a sane and compassionate society, every cat and kitten would automatically be helped when necessary, and homed for life, and anyone doing any harm to any cat would be shunned by that society, and dealt with legally and accordingly in a much tougher manner than this society does.   Having said that, I'd be right with you if the scumbag was ever identified who did this to Bongo (and all of the others like this scumbag).

On to more positive energy, hoping and praying that you are able to do everything necessary to give this sweet little man the very best life possible.  Tripods can do extremely well.  I'm sure you know about Best Friends in Utah and their special needs cats, as an example.

The very best to Bongo, and to you, too.  

People suck!!  Or Some People I should say.  I hope that whoever did that to this sweet little creature has some suffering to endure!

Thank God that Bongo has been rescued and will be loved and cared for now.

A cat does fine with 3 legs. I had two 3-legged cats, one was an approximately 9 month old kitten who had his right rear leg cut off just above the hock by some kind of trauma & he was dumped at the place I bought dog food & they asked me to take him. I took him, the vet did a proper mid-femur amputation on his leg & he lived a full happy healthy active long life. Being 3-legged caused him to stand with his one good hindleg centered to balance his body, resulting in a natural arched back appearance & some very cute natural Halloween cat photos when I was taking pics of my son then a toddler, in an orange Halloween pumpkin suit & the cat Mistai got up & stood on top of the chair my son sat in. The second cat was one a neighbor had. The cat was hit by a car & his left leg was necrotic complete with exposed bones. The neighbor said take the cat, they didn't care what I did with them but they weren't going to spend any money taking a cat to the vet. I took the cat, had him vetted, his left rear leg was properly amputated high on the femur above the necrotic tissue etc. He healed just fine & also lived a long active life. I also had a 3-legged German Shepherd Dog, an accidental amputation by a first time mother. The second puppy was coming breech and in her haste to clean the puppy & chew the cord, the mother bit through the right rear leg of the puppy, crushing the leg and severing the leg in multiple places. Before that puppy was 24 hours old, she had undergone a correct amputation of the right rear leg. Tripod, as she was called, was as agile & strong as any of the normal 4-legged dogs. She could keep up with the other dogs easily. She astounded me & others by her capability to go over a 6 foot kennel fence, 6 foot usually being high enough to hold all but the most determined climbers. I've also had two blind cats, a deaf cat, & several broken pelvis hit-by-car victims. At present I have a cat who survived brain damage from being hit by a car, a one-eyed cat & a cat who was brought to me with a broken pelvis & nerve damage in her right rear leg from being hit by a car. The pelvis of this most recent cat is healing fine but it takes a long time for nerves to heal so at this point I'm doing physical therapy on her right rear leg and it remains to be seen if she'll regain enough nerve function to be able to use the leg again or whether the leg will have to be amputated. After all my experiences with handicapped cats, a handicapped dog, and a one-legged English Sparrow who I rescued out of a storm as a hatchling (his right leg was damaged beyond repair & had to be amputated & that one-legged little bird functioned just fine!) I have to say that Bongo should do fine and live a full happy long life as a 3-legged cat & probably be as ornery as any 4-legged cat!