Hi Everyone- My name is Shannon Powers. Nice to meet you all.

Please meet Otto- my most bestest little boy in the entire world. He came into my life 12 years ago on a work trip. Most people come home from a trip with a T Shirt saying, "I went to blah blah blah... and all I got was this stinking t-shirt." Oh, let me tell you... I got so much more. I got my bestie, my secret keeper, my protector, my love bug, my life saver, my companion, my cheerleader, my doesn't care what I look like, my special special lil broke friend who never questions anything- never a judge. If you don't have one of these in your life you are missing something. Any word that spells GOD backwards has got to be the greatest gift.

So you can imagine that the gut wrenching thought of your sugar faced, aging, slow poke lil guy being uncomfortable or being out of sorts....or in pain- you go there. How much time left do we have? How will you survive without them? What is wrong with them? My mind went there last week except there is a little extra panic there.

Otto has been having issues raising his lil furry booty when getting up in fact so much so that he tries NOT to get up. I shook it off as being old age and hip issues. This last weekend I was giving him his massage on his back end and I felt a HUGE mass. This explains the inability to lift himself and why he wouldn't let me brush him there OR why he keeps licking at it. The licking started a month ago but he has allergies so I just wrote it off.

I am humbly asking for financial help to get him to the vet to see what the issue is and hopefully it is nothing but a fatty tumor. I am an Entertainment Industry Casting Director who like a whole group of us has been put through one of the toughest years in my 25 year career. I have worked on a few projects and have even been exploring multiple opportunities outside of my industry that I love so much. I do not have the initial payments for testing for diagnosis because of living expenses to keep my home and was declined for EDD. The testing the vet said would be needed are as follows:

Vet Fee

Full Blood Panel

Ultrasound

Needle Aspiration (Can be easy or need anesthesia depending nohow large and deep)

They are saying this could run between $900-$2500.

I am in panic mode, and I know that you can understand why. Most of you know Otto through my constant obsession of taking photos of him and posting on social media. Some of you have net him and know exactly why I need to make this happen because I can't imagine a day without my happy go -lucky beautiful boy. My heart breaks even getting the though enter my mind.

I know and recognize that people are faced with challenges of their own in these times we are facing. I can only express how grateful I am that you would take the time to read and consider where your hard earned dollars go...and I would be eternally grateful. If you are not able- please share the post and give a whisper to whoever you whisper to that Otto will be here a long time and that its just a lill blip in his health.

With Deepest Gratitude,

Shannon