PLEASE HELP Niko FKA Nick Jonas

Three weeks ago, we adopted our amazing dog Niko (formerly Nick Jonas) from GDRNE. Our 10 year old son, my husband and myself all immediately fell in love with his very loving and very energetic personality, and we were so excited to bring him into our family after recently putting down our beloved 13 year old dog. Niko had been through a lot already in his short life, and we were ready to give him a great life full of fun and adventures!

Last Wednesday morning, we noticed that Niko suddenly wasn’t acting himself. He was extremely lethargic, and didn’t get up to greet us with his typical morning wiggles. What followed was a series of vet and urgent care visits, which ended with him being admitted to Tufts Veterinary Hospital on Thursday. At this point he’s been in the hospital for 5 days, and we still don’t have a diagnosis for his illness. There’s a potential extreme immune response to a tick illness (not Lyme), or perhaps an acute reaction to the Lyme/Lepto vaccine. He did not improve with antibiotics and fluids, so steroid treatments were started 2 days ago. He’s had some slight improvement, but there is no cause nor end in sight.

To say that this has been an emotional rollercoaster for us and our son is an understatement. The vet/urgent care and hospital bills have been outrageous, so we are humbly asking for some financial help as we navigate this terrible situation. Truly any amount will help, a dollar here and there adds up! We are so grateful to the whole GDRNE community and especially our adoption coordinator Amy Famiglietti who fought so hard to have Niko sent up here.

Thank you so very much,

Katrina, Jim, Elijah and Niko

We've included a video that Great Dog Rescue made for Niko back when he was Nick Jonas and available for adoption that shows how amazing he is and also resilient. We thank you for your support in supporting the entire Jonas brother litter on their rescue journey!