A resident of Michigan noticed a young cat that was hiding under his car. The man took some time to pull the cat out and when he did this, he was horrified. The cat had an open wound on its head and completely missing a part of the skull with one ear.
The man brought the cat to the private shelter of the Michigan cat rescue team Crash's Landing. From this moment begins the story of the recovery of the cat, which was nicknamed Van Gogh, and from the very beginning the cat showed itself very affectionate and philanthropic. With every contact with people, he began to purr.
The cat had no part of the skull and the wound was so serious that it was not just one ear that was removed, but the eye was also hurt. According to the company's employees, the cat most likely suffered when hiding in the engine of the car, trying to find a warm place.
The cat was operated and the next three months he recovered after it. The treatment was slow.
"A lot of progress was made before my eyes, while few believed that the cat would be able to recover from such injury," says veterinarian Jen Denies.
After Van Gogh recovered from the operation, he was returned to the shelter, where he began to grow, recover and "blossom." Cats in this shelter are kept outside the cells, they have a place where they can lie and walk freely.
- Van Gogh immediately showed his sociability, he liked to sit tightly pressed against any other cat, and "helps" our volunteers to work. He is an amazing person who will leave an indelible impression on you, even if you spend next to him only a couple of minutes.
In addition to the special appearance due to the wound, Van Gogh was diagnosed with a cat's polychaquence, he has extra fingers on his front legs that look like "thumbs up."
In the Crash's Landing shelter, Van Gogh lived until the spring of 2017, and then there was another happy event for him.
- Brenda, one of our volunteers, and her daughter decided that Van Gogh was missing in their life and decided to take the cat to their family. Now Van Gogh has already settled in their house, he was very talkative and every night he sleeps in the master's bed.
Now three and a half years after the dangerous wound, Van Gogh lives in a warm house, where he has a personal chair and no one cares that he does not have a part of the head with one ear.