Olive Jean is our sweet, goofy (some say a little derpy), deeply loved rescue girl.

She’s only 2.5 years old and she's got floppy ears, giant paws, expressive little eyebrows, and papa calls her the comedian dog. She was rescued from Houston the very day she was scheduled to be euthanized and transported to Chicago where she became the absolute center of our world.

She’s playful, affectionate, curious, and full of life. She loves her neighborhood friends (she’s very popular), car rides, cookies, and being as close to her people as possible.

And just a couple weeks ago… everything changed.

After we noticed her limping, we we're back and forth to the vet — and within days, we were given a diagnosis we never expected for a dog this young: osteosarcoma (an aggressive bone cancer).

We were all devastated.

The only immediate option to relieve her pain and give her a chance to fight was to amputate her front leg. We had to move fast because she was hurting, this cancer is very aggressive, and we couldn’t bear to let her suffer.

Since then, we’ve moved forward with everything we can to give Ollie the best possible chance:

She has undergone amputation surgery

She has started chemotherapy

She has been accepted into a promising Yale clinical trial vaccine program

We know the prognosis with osteosarcoma can be difficult. We are not naïve to that. But Olive is young. She is strong. She is full of life.

And we believe she deserves every possible chance to fight.

This journey has been incredibly emotional and also incredibly expensive. Between emergency vet visits, diagnostic testing, surgery, medications, chemotherapy, and ongoing care (including regular X-rays, bloodwork, and monitoring as part of the clinical trial), the costs are significant and ongoing.

We’ve already taken on a large financial burden to get Olive this far, and we will continue to do everything we can for her, but we can’t do it alone.

Every donation helps us continue her chemotherapy treatments, stay enrolled in the clinical trial, cover ongoing imaging and medical care

and most importantly, give Olive more time, comfort, and a real chance.

If you’re not able to donate, sharing Olive’s story means just as much.

Olive has already beaten the odds once... she was saved the day she was supposed to be euthanized and lived on the streets of Texas before that.

We truly believe she’s meant to be here. And now, we’re just trying to give her the chance to keep fighting.

Thank you for loving her with us.

— Jennifer & Jonathan