On July 25th my sister got a tragic phone call from her father while we were on vacation that Leo could not walk on his back end wining and growling. They found out after taking him to the emergency animal hospital that he has a herniated disc and needs surgery. Leo is in pain and needs our help. He will be in the hospital for up to 6 days and after his surgery he will be in his cage for up to 6-8 weeks with no movement. He will have to be carried outside to go to the bathroom. Any little amount helps to cover this surgery Leo is in our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.

UPDATE: Those of you following my little bean butt. After a 14k surgery we have updates:

His surgery was successful, they said though they had to make two incisions he had swelling really badly in between L 11,12 & 13. So they decompressed all of that. They also said that his spinal cord was pretty well bruised and hemorrhaging. After his surgery he was stable and was excubated successfully as well (which they were worried about since he’s a bradycelphalic breed) he did get anxiety last night so they gave him an anxiety med and when he was fed he was scarfing it down.. as of this morning he hasn’t progressed but also hasn’t declined so she’s happy about that she said this is expected. as of now he doesn’t have feeling in his back area still, which again she said that is to be expected since it was a very in-depth procedure but the good part is he still feels pain when they touch so he still has feeling somewhat somewhere. We will know whether of not he will be able to walk hopefully within 2 weeks. This is gunna be a long road to recovery 6-8 weeks.

Moving forward in life he’s not gunna be able to mess around too much because he has degenerative disc disease through his entire vertebrae. So a lifetime full of medication and follow ups I’m sure.

Leo is now home and resting but we are gonna still need more donations to cover his surgery. He went potty all by himself on his puppy pad without my sister having to squeeze his bladder! one step closer to healing! keep praying for our beano weano❤️