A friend of mine adopted Riley, one of my Angelboy's littermates. He's a big, sweet, two-year-old lapcat, and she adores him. Well, the poor baby is going to have to have surgery on Tuesday to repair a broken leg--the way my friend describes it, it sounds rather like a hip replacement. The femur is detached somehow from the hip socket.

She has no idea how it happened. He must have jumped or fallen from somewhere in the house (he and Angel and their brother Pistol are all climbers).

The worst thing is that she first took him to an emergency vet who didn't bother to take X-rays and told her that one of her other cats must have bit him--then sent poor Riley home with some antibiotics! Fortunately, she followed up with her regular vet, who had the sense to do an X-ray.

The vet says Riley will always have a limp after this.

Does anyone have a kitty who has had a similar injury? Any encouraging words I can pass along?