Help My Callie Get New Knees
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My name is Leslie, the love of my life's name is Callie. We live in Northern New Jersey USA. Callie was found walking on the Garden State Parkway when Union Animal Control picked him up. We met by chance. There he sat sad eyed in his kennel. As I stooped down to meet him face to face he raised his paw against my hand. Love at first sight for both of us.
He joined our family and turned ut to be a complete gentleman. Patient with children and other dogs, easygoing with our family cats, and a complete ladie's man to human females. You couldn't ask for a happier well-adjusted dog. Despite his apparently rough early life he was happy go lucky and grateful for his forever home. It was considered he had been discarded as a fighting dog who refused to fight owing to the injuries he had when the shelter took him in.
Despite his past he became the sunshine of our family. But early on we began noticing his gait. We attributed his clumsiness to puppyhood. Then the vet took the first of a series of X rays. By last October it was clear even to a layperson that his knees were shattered. I've come to find out that his condition is a result of bad breeding.
Without knee surgery to replace the cartilage he will eventually be completely crippled. His legs have been compared to that of a football player. At a stocky 60lbs his small back legs are out of proportion to the rest of his muscular frame. At only three years old guesstimated he has the back legs of a dog a decade older. I work two jobs and free lance to support our family. My husband is still struggling to work with Parkinson's and our daughter is on the autism spectrum, dependent on us as well.
It will cost $6000 to repair Callie's legs and give him the chance a long happy life. We will be eternally grateful to anyone who can help us towards our beautiful boy's surgery costs.
He joined our family and turned ut to be a complete gentleman. Patient with children and other dogs, easygoing with our family cats, and a complete ladie's man to human females. You couldn't ask for a happier well-adjusted dog. Despite his apparently rough early life he was happy go lucky and grateful for his forever home. It was considered he had been discarded as a fighting dog who refused to fight owing to the injuries he had when the shelter took him in.
Despite his past he became the sunshine of our family. But early on we began noticing his gait. We attributed his clumsiness to puppyhood. Then the vet took the first of a series of X rays. By last October it was clear even to a layperson that his knees were shattered. I've come to find out that his condition is a result of bad breeding.
Without knee surgery to replace the cartilage he will eventually be completely crippled. His legs have been compared to that of a football player. At a stocky 60lbs his small back legs are out of proportion to the rest of his muscular frame. At only three years old guesstimated he has the back legs of a dog a decade older. I work two jobs and free lance to support our family. My husband is still struggling to work with Parkinson's and our daughter is on the autism spectrum, dependent on us as well.
It will cost $6000 to repair Callie's legs and give him the chance a long happy life. We will be eternally grateful to anyone who can help us towards our beautiful boy's surgery costs.
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Callie Foote
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Maplewood, NJ