Signal Boost: Save Smokey

Via lindahoyland. (It's not her kitten but she's brought this one to my attention.) Smokey is a young cat who swallowed some thread, which is now wrapped around his intestines and needs to be surgically removed. Owner can't afford surgery, so she's trying to get the money together via Gofundme. If you've got a few spare bucks and want to help try and save Smokey's life, the donation drive is here.

(Yeah, Smokey's owner needs to do better on phrasing and punctuation, but we can't hold that against the poor cat, can we.)

Whenever I read about things like this, I realise how lucky we've been with our cats so far. We regularly have bits of thread lying around as well as building materials and potentially poisonous plants both on the window-sills and in the garden, but they've never as yet touched any of that. Erm. *knocks on wood*