Thea is a 8-month-old Domestic Shorthair Cat in Stanford, CA, who needs $500 for Surgery to Repair Fractured Femur.

Thea is a rescue I found abandoned on my college campus, scared, tired, hungry, and thirsty. I took her in 2 months ago and have been nursing her back to health since. She now lives together with me in my studio apartment and has settled in nicely after recovering from her spay surgery.

I give Thea free range throughout the apartment because it's overall a bit small. She spends all of her time either sleeping, cuddling up against me (especially when I first get home), playing with or without me, or

Her favorite toy is her mouse on a stick. I don't need even need to entice her with it and she'll find ways to simulate hunting it, carrying it away in her mouth when she's succeeded. She chirps whenever she plays--a reflection of her strong hunting instincts---and whenever she's excited, which is most of her waking life. Meows are strictly reserved for when I return after several hours away.

I found Thea with a limp that hasn't fully resolved. After finding x-rays and a surgical consultation I could afford, it's now clear that she has a fracture in her femur just above her left knee that still hasn't healed---the bone parts are held together only by scar tissue. Dr. Kimberly Carlson at Lenity Vet in San Mateo, CA gives a good prognosis for corrective surgery.

I couldn't help but rescue Thea when I found her, but I am a graduate student within "very low income" limits in my county and this surgery is ~$10,000 in that county. Surgery would give this very active otherwise healthy rescue the best chance at an active, pain-free life.