If there's three things in life you can always count on, it's death, taxes (deadline is today if you haven't filed yet BTW) and the internet's love of cats.

That love of feline's has led more than 200 Quebecers to come together to help a cat from Saint-Jérôme.

According to Katty Brisson, a woman brought her a cat last Friday night. The woman told her she saw a taxi driver deliberately ran him down while he was crossing the street.

Brisson runs the Sauvez 2 vies, adoptez un poilu shelter, and quickly took the cat to a vet.

Luckily, his injuries were not as bad as they could have been. The cat, now named "Jérôme" suffered a fractured jaw. His lungs and everything else appeared to have sustained no damage. The blood that had been flowing from Jérôme's eyes was from a hematoma caused by the collision.

The veterinarian gave him intravenous fluid, painkillers and antibiotics.

Because of the fractured jaw, Jérôme will need to have surgery, which has caused his medical bill to sky rocket.

Brisson started a GoFundMe campaign detailing the story and looking to raise $5,000 to help the helpless animal.

In just over one day, 222 people raised $5,435.

Late Sunday evening Brisson updated a Facebook page tracking Jérôme's progress, saying he has been transferred to a vet in Lachine where he will have surgery in the coming days.

With her new feline friend's situation looking better, Brisson continues the search for the driver.

She condemned the behaviour of some internet vigilante's who have gone as far as threatening Taxi St-Jérôme. Brisson let her followers know she had spoken with the bosses of the taxi service, who came in on their vacation to verify the GPS data of all of their drivers.

Brisson said none of the company's cabbies were on the street in question at the time of the incident (between midnight and 1:00 A.M.).

She did ask if anyone has information that could help find the person responsible to message her directly.