If you treated an animal in your charge like this,

[Denzil_DC]

you'd be liable for a felony for neglect of suffering.

Aside from the pain and possibility of medical complications, a serious break will inevitably lead to a degree of shock (I speak from experience).

I badly broke one of my toes a couple of years ago, and reluctantly opted not to go the ER on a Saturday night (not because of cost - I'm in the UK, where we don't have to worry about such things - but because organizing transport was difficult, the queues would have been too long and it would have been too chaotic), waiting till next morning to get attention. It was a very uncomfortable and worrying night, and by the time I got there, the swelling and bruising made it harder to treat, leading to a permanent injury.