Forrest is a 4-year-old Domestic Short Hair Cat in Nashville, TN, who needs $2,000 for Pyometra Surgery.

Forrest was actually a family friend's kitten, whose cat Cloudy escaped out of their house and got pregnant. My daughter would walk from school to her friend's house every day after the kitten was born, and became very smitten with her. When our family friends told my daughter that they were not going to be able to keep the kitten, my daughter did not rest until we agreed to let her keep her.

Forrest is our household therapist. After a long stressful day at work, she meets us at the door, jumps up on the back of the couch and smothers us with the BEST loving head butts and kisses. She can make every ounce of stress seep out of your body with her loving demeanor and affection. Words cannot describe how special she is to our entire family, and we can't imagine life without her.

Everybody loves Forrest!! We have a Russian Blue cat that is her very best friend and watching them interact together makes you think how awesome it would be if humans could be so kind and loving to one another - what a wonderful world it would be. I've never heard her hiss or make an unkind gesture for any reason. She is the most loving animal I have ever had the pleasure of being around.

Forrest is an intact female and developed Pyometra after not getting pregnant after multiple heat cycles. We without hesitation had the emergency surgery done to remove her uterus and ovaries. There were complications and she needed a blood transfusion due to her PCV and protein levels. She could not receive a full transfusion due to a reaction to the donor blood so levels are still very low.

This was definitely an unexpected, and major family expense with potential costs of $9,000 + and Forrest is not out of the woods yet. She is a member of our family, and we couldn't not try to get help for her, but it has quickly become a financial burden.