Serabi's Declaw Salvage Surgery

Serabi is a rescued jungle cat hybrid  with previous owners that did not understand the breed or general cat care. She is now much happier in her forever home with a patient and loving cat lover. Stacy has a deep passion for helping cats of all sizes and ages, and the more difficult they seem to be, the more she loves them. Stacy takes on so many cats every year, and has adopted the most difficult ones because they couldn't find a home that could take care of all their needs.  Most of her living space is dedicated to cats.




That is how Serabi came to her. Serabi was a cat that had many goes in the foster system, but she kept becoming increasingly stressed in each home and would pull out her hair.



^The above photos were taken the day Serabi came to Stacy.



She was in dire need of a patient foster, she was declawed on all 4 paws at a young age, and unfortunately, like many declaw surgeries, it causes her pain and moody behavior.






She doesn't socialize with other cats, in fact, she stays mostly seperate from the other stuff altogether since she is easily initimidated. She cannot jump and play like other cats because of the pain. She cannot even use her paws, her arthiritis is severe believed to be exclusively caused by the botched surgery.

There is a tendon surgery that is quite expensive, but comes with great results that leaves the cat a completely different cat. The surgery would likely require some traveling as well. It is a very complex surgery requiring multiple visits. The process starts with pre-op blood work and exam. If blood panel shoes no abnormalities, the next visit is sedation for radiographs or MRIs. Sadly MRIs for animals run over $2000 :( And that's just to see the scope of the damage.

Normal paw:

Abnormal paws due to declaw botching causing bones to grow through the paw pad and causes painful callouses. All are Serabi except for the second one, as a comparison.








This her friend writing this, and I made this campaign because she loves her cats so much she would give them everything if she could. Stacy talks about winning a million dollars and spending it firstly on serabi's surgery and then on establishing a cat rescue. Yes, this is how much she loves animals, and yes she is a cat lady.  I wanted to show Stacy that we need people like her to be passionate in this world. I was hoping if you are reading this you could show her your support as well.

 If you can't donate any money, obviously both of us understand, since you know, we are on here begging for this money. Please share whereever you can, we are also possibly hoping it could also reach a vet that can donate their time and reduce the amount we need to raise. 

If you would be more comfortable with the money going straight to a vet, then please email to receive the contact information.

Thank you and GO rescue a cat (or dog)













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Update 11/5/2015
Serabi is scheduled for a vet consultation and XRay November 19.  Also spoke with a vet in Atlanta over the phone about her experience with the surgery and get work with the 'Paw Project'. She would be willing to give a second opinion regarding the surgery.

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Update 11/6/2015
After further investigation, and a lot of  Serabi's patience,  " I am positive this is her feet. I snuck a feel by getting her to lay on me. She definitely has a big callous on at least one back toe, and I can see more on the front."