A cat left half-paralysed after being struck by a motorcycle is recovering well, its new owner said thanks in part to “a wonderful outpouring of donations” from the community.Ettrick Animal Hospital reported receiving close to $4,000 from members of the public after photographer Amanda Temple brought the badly injured animal in for treatment in November.Two months later the cat, named Hope, is doing “well, still a little shaky, and she stumbles around, but her progress is amazing”, Ms Temple said.Ms Temple started a media campaign in an attempt to find the cat’s original owner, including a front page picture in The Royal Gazette, but decided to adopt the cat herself after it got three weeks of treatment.Donations covered the cat’s medical bills, and Ettrick said other animals were also treated using the money sent in to save Hope.“She wasn’t able to move her back legs at all,” said Ms Temple. “I had knee surgery on January 4, so the two of us have spent a lot of time in bed recuperating.”Exercising the cat and stretching its legs has helped, she said, as well as vitamin B12 to repair nerve damage.Hope, she said ‘now eats twice as much as my other cat’.Aside from being frightened by loud noises, Ms Temple said, Hope has become “the most affectionate cat I ever had”.The cat enjoys roaming around its new home, Ms Temple said, adding: “I live a long way from the road.”