Help With Pilot’s Veterinary Care

My cat, Pilot has been missing for 10 years. He was an indoor/outdoor cat that always came home every evening like clockwork. He is microchipped and was wearing a collar with a tag the day he never came home. We were devastated. He is a very special cat who loved my kids, loved to play in water, and followed us around like a dog. His disappearance was extremely traumatizing to us. So, imagine our shock and surprise when he was found on Oct 31st. 10 years after his disappearance. He was severely burned in the Tubbs fire in Santa Rosa, Ca. A Good Samaritan found him and took him to Petcare Veterinary Hospital for treatment. It was there that he was scanned for a microchip and I was located! We live in CO now and I will be flying out to CA next week to be reunited with him. I can’t express how excited I am to see his face. I am really looking forward to being able to bring him back to our family. Pilot has severe burns on his paws. So severe, that he is burned to the bone in some places. He is going to need extensive care and treatment. Now you might ask, why do this? Well, I’ll tell you. Pilot has been burned like this for over 2 weeks. He’s been out there on his own and he somehow made it with very little food and water. He was dehydrated and starving. And yet he kept going. He’s in really good spirits and gets excited and wants to be petted and loved on the moment someone opens his cage door at the veterinary hospital. He’s not ready to give up so neither am I. I will do what I can to help him. He is going to need frequent bandage changes which he’ll have to be sedated for because it’s painful. The costs really add up quickly for that. I want to give Pilot the best chance he has. Thank you for reading. <3