Help with emergency vet bill

Hello thank you for clicking onto Rios story.

Basically Rio was born with a cleft palate inside his mouth.

I picked him up when he was a puppy and knew nothing about it from the breeder.

I took him for his first vaccinations and the vets discovered the cleft palate and said that the breeder should of had this done before selling him to me.

I tried to contact the breeder and they had disappeared from the earth

Long story short the vet advised that there's not much else we could do and we can see how he gets on.

Fast forward 4 years and he managed very well, he never got any infections and the vets where happy with his eating habits as it didn't seem to bother him.

Recently he started to show signs of infection, so I took him to the vets and they said he has an abscess and some teeth will need to be removed, they advised that the cleft palate be glued together as this will then stop an infection like this happen again and it's better for him to only have one annasetic and get it all done at the same time.

They have estimated the bill between £1,500 - £1,800 and if they do them on seperate days, it will be more as they will have to charge a hospital day fee again and an annasetic again. (hence trying to do it on the same day would be better for him and for me money wise)

The vets will offer a 2 month payment plan,

- half the deposit the morning of the surgery.

-then the rest spread over 2 monthly payments.

( this isn't affordable, and I've tried to explain If it was more of a 12 monthly payment, it would be more affordable.)

Basically cleft palates and related issue to the cleft palate are not covered by pet insurance.

I am asking if anyone can help, even if I can get the deposit together, I can at least get it done for him so he can stop suffering.

I managed to scrape money together to get him pain killers and antibiotics to keep it under control for now but this is a short term fix until I can get the deposit money together.

Thank you so much for reading and a happy new year!

Anything will be greatly appreciated