Winnie the SPCA cat may get to keep her leg after Whanganui residents raised $2500 for an operation on the broken limb.
General manager Danny Auger put out a plea in March for people to donate money so Winnie could have her badly broken leg fixed.
She was found injured on a doorstep, and was taken to the SPCA.
They discovered the leg had been broken for about five to six weeks and the bones had fused back together incorrectly.
SPCA staff believed surgery to rebreak and restructure the leg would work, and did not want to amputate if they didn't have to, as Winnie was young and otherwise healthy.