A woman in Cardiff is facing an eye-watering £9,000 vet bill after her cat was hit by a car just yards from her front door. The nasty accident on Thursday, January 19, saw Toni Winter's pet cat Misty suffer a broken pelvis and hip as well as an open wound fracture to her ankle.
Vets in Cardiff told Toni, 33, that the surgery required to save her was too complex for them to carry out and that all they could do was euthanise her. The beloved five-and-a-half-year-old feline was transferred to a specialist vet in Bristol where she has undergone an initial surgery lasting more than six hours, which has cost Toni around £4,000.
Toni told WalesOnline that Misty, who is a domestic shorthair, still has a "long way to go" with further surgeries required to fix her injuries. Toni, who doesn't have pet insurance, has been forced to empty her own bank account and "scrimped and tweaked and borrowed and sold" to pay for the costs totalling £5,500 so far.
