According to People, this experience left the cat with a broken leg, a broken jaw, and some serious infections.

But while it would be very hard not to feel helpless after an experience like that, he didn't let it stop him.

As she said, "I heard a 'meow' [and] I looked and saw that pitiful little orange cat just hobbling around. When I went out on my porch, he started rubbing against my leg."

But when she called up the veterinarians in her area, she found out that Apollo's injuries were beyond her ability to afford treatment. Nonetheless, she found that her neighbor Jennifer Miller was willing to set up a GoFundMe campaign for his surgery — as long as Phillips adopted him.

And as Phillips soon learned, this generosity would make an even bigger impact than she realized.

In her words, "He [Apollo] actually required more than we thought. He ended up having a plate with six screws and a pin in his left leg."

This meant that even with the discount, the cat's procedure would end up costing $2,669. Unfortunately, this was about $600 more than the GoFundMe campaign would raise at the time (it has since raised a total of $4,280 at the time of this writing).

However, Miller would end up covering the rest of bill and as we can see, those screws and pins went in as planned.

According to Phillips, her dogs Luna and Juno have accepted him into their family and he loves them back.

Now that the dust is settling, Apollo's new friends have expressed how touched they are both by the community's generosity and Apollo's resilience.

As Miller put it, "Our community has been generous this Christmas, helping this cat live his best life. The biggest thing everybody was in complete amazement about was how in the world this cat had gotten the strength to crawl to somebody's house."

h/t: People