This plant wants to live!

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This is a sad story of one Colmanara Wildcat...

Chapter 1. The Procurement.
My daughter just absolutely had to have a plant that had a "wildcat" for its name, so she dragged in this stressed orchid from a show at day's end. The only prerequisites for getting the orchid were the name, and the flower spike. It was March 2013.

Chapter 2. "Waiting for Godot".
The plant started growing a new pb, once the spike was done, so that was potentially a good time to give it a proper size pot. At that time there was no new root growth, and a lot of root rot. I tried giving it optimal growing conditions,and after a while I was rewarded with new roots growing along with the new pb. I thought that everything would go smoothly from then on, but ... the recovery never happened. During the course of the year, the poor thing got knocked down by our cats twice, and lost all its foliage except one leaf atop the new pseudobulb. I was ready to discard the whole "affair", but due to my daughter's protests I caved in... just to discover- in March 2014-two new pseudobulbs emerging, two back bulbs dead, and the new pb from previous year severely shriveled.

Chapter 3. The diagnosis.
At that time I had nothing to lose, so I pulled it out to see how the roots were doing. To my dismay, the plant had lost 99.9 % of its roots ...and I finally found the culprit(s)- bush snails (thank you Ray for confirming my snail pic).

Chapter 4. R.I.P. Bush Snails.
So far I tried baits: beer and lettuce, and drowning. After drowning I put the plant in fresh sphagnum to give it a bit more moisture around "budding" roots. At this stage I'm considering chemical treatment .

Prologue.
The pic says it all; poor overall health, new roots chewed off by snails, old roots rotted and gone, but I'm amazed at how resilient this orchid is with new growth still going, three live eyes, and new roots still trying to beat their enemies .

Do you think this one still stands a chance, or I'm just a hopeless romantic ?