Save Mookie: Urgent Surgery Needed

Hi, my name is Angela and this is my best friend Mookie. He is a Shih Tzu. He is my son. He is my everything. So everyone that knows Mookie knows what he means to me and how spoiled he is.

Just a little back story on what happened: Yesterday when I woke up, Mookie usually gets up with me. He sleeps on a big couch on my bed, and he didn’t move. So I said, oh maybe it’s his arthritis because he does have a little bit of arthritis. I took him out to use the restroom. I picked him up and took him outside. When I put him down, he started walking in circles, bumping into the walls, and I was like, not thinking anything of it. I was like, oh you’re really going blind. So he went to the bathroom, I picked him up, and I took him in the living room and put him on his chaise. He has a lounge chaise in my living room, and he slept. He just slept.

At lunchtime, I was like, come on PaPa, that’s my nickname for him. You gotta go to the bathroom, and he wouldn’t get up. So I took him back outside, put him down, and he started bumping into stuff. Well, this time around I picked him up facing me. When I picked him up, his eye looked just like this, and I freaked out. I was like, oh my God, what happened? He was just asleep. He was fine. His eye was fine. And I rushed him to the vet, and the vet unfortunately told me that he has to take his eye. He said that it was gonna cost $3000 basically more or less, and I just cried because if anybody knows me, they know that I love animals—all animals. I would do anything for anybody’s animals. I groom animals, I take care of animals, I foster animals, I feed animals. You know, I’m just a person that loves animals.

They also know I work really, really hard just to stay afloat in the state of California. I’m pretty frivolous when it comes to me. I don’t really worry about me. I worry about these animals that didn’t ask to be here, so I would do anything for my babies, but it comes at a time where I just don’t have it. I don’t have it. Don’t know what to do. Don’t wanna give up on my best friend, and so I’m just asking for help. I don’t care if it’s a dollar, I don’t care if it’s five dollars. I just need to get him surgery and I need to get him surgery as soon as possible. I just don’t have it right now with all the finances that come along with just living, so I’m asking my friends that know me, my friends that love me, animal lovers for help. I would never do this any other time because I feel like I’m so independent and I’ve tried so hard. So if you can find it in your heart just to help save my best friend, I would appreciate it. And for those that do donate, thank you so much.