Gingerbread is a three-year-old Domestic Shorthair cat in Gainesville, FL, who needs $1,910 for urgent hip surgery.

Gingerbread had a brush with death after she was hit by a car.

Her caregivers found her with devastating injuries and contacted Operation Catnip of Gainesville.

"She had a shattered leg with exposed bone," Audrey G., with the rescue group, tells Waggle. "It required immediate amputation, but that wasn't the end of Gingerbread's troubles. She also had a broken pelvis, and the hip bone in her remaining hind leg was dislocated."

Gingerbread needed a femoral head ostectomy (FHO) surgery to help fix her hip so she can walk without pain. She required crate rest and an exercise routine.

"Gingerbread is one of our special, critical care cases, who never acted feral even though she had been an outdoor cat" Audrey says. "She has been super-friendly the entire time she has been with us. Her caregivers, who love her deeply, know that they had to let her go because they could not keep her indoors, as will be required for her from now on."

She will be transferred to an adoption program where she can find a loving indoor home!

Please help Gingerbread by funding her medical care after suffering such tragic injuries.

"At Operation Catnip, spay-neuter is always our priority," Audrey adds. "But community cats also deserve high-quality medical care when they're ill or injured. With your help, we can offer second chances at life for the unowned cats of our county and surrounding rural neighbors."