Hi everyone, my name is Christine and I'm running this fundraiser to help my partner, Nate Telow, with the veterinary bills associated with our dog Rocky's cancer treatments.

As many of you know, Rocky is the mascot for Nate's business, Gym Hub, which he built from the ground-up and what he has put his heart and soul into for the past 4.5 years. Rocky is well known for his face all over the Gym Hub merchandise, his noisy demands for attention for pets from everyone in the gym, and his goofy back scratchies on the gym turf!

Several weeks ago, we discovered and had removed two mast cell tumors along with 2 lymph nodes that showed the presence of mast cells as well.

His abdominal ultrasound today (5/4/26) revealed a large mass on his spleen that we will have to get removed. We anticipate he will require further treatments to see if there is cancer in other areas of his body.

If you know Nate, you know he's such a good man that he won't ask for help because he doesn't want to bother or inconvenience anyone. So I'm putting this GoFundMe together with his permission, albeit against his hesitation in doing one himself.

Nate works his butt off for Gym Hub, training clients all day, helping with the local bodybuilding shows, etc. He gives so much of his time and energy to the community, I figured it would be very reasonable to ask the community to extend their support in return. This could mean with the simplest donation of $5, or even keeping him and Rocky in your thoughts and prayers.

The removal of the mast cells a few weeks ago already cost roughly $6k. Today's detection via x-rays and the ultrasound will be another $3k. With Rocky's age and breed (9 years of being the bestest boy ever!) we anticipate the next steps for treatment to easily cost upwards of $6-9k as well.

Rocky is a fighter, and we never would have guessed that he was dealing with anything had we not noticed those tumors on his side a month ago! I'm cautiously optimistic that the x-rays won't find anything worse and that removing the mass from his spleen will treat the issues.

I intend on keeping this page up-to-date with Rocky updates as we get more information, but please feel free to reach out to me or Nate if you have any concerns about what part of Rocky's treatment your donation is going to.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit this page and read about this cause.