Help Bugsy Walk Again: Support His Surgery

On Tuesday our baby boy hurt his neck. The local vet thought it was just a muscle strain, but the next day his symptoms started to worsen. By the end of the night he couldn’t walk straight and was starting to trip over his front paws. By Thursday morning he could no longer hold himself up and his front legs went completely stiff…

We rushed him to an Emergency Vet yesterday morning where he had an evaluation by a neurologist who ordered and MRI that showed a ruptured disk in his neck that is compressing on his spinal cord. The treatment options are surgery, conservative treatment (likely very poor outcome given that within time he could become permanently paralyzed), or putting him down (absolutely not an option for us)…

With all that being said, Bugsy is undergoing spinal surgery today (7/19/24) to alleviate the compression on his spinal cord. The Surgeon is very confident that Bugsy will have a great outcome and be able to live out the rest of his life (mostly) his normal, loving, goofy self.

We made a huge mistake and didn’t have pet insurance prior to this so everyyyything is coming out of pocket - and the total cost is outrageous y’all! We aren’t ones to ask for money, and yes we can still make ends meet, but if you feel like helping our little guy out or you know of any organizations that might like to help with some of the crazy upcoming expenses please let us know!

More importantly, please take a minute and say a prayer for our little guy. To you he may be “just a dog” but to us, he’s our everything.