Aegon and Jabriel Need Your Help

My name is Jabriel Donohue, but the important one here is the guy on my right, Aegon.  He's my best friend.

It's been a rough couple months for the both of us but life took an upswing recently when I decided to move from Portland to Seattle.  Work has been plentiful and the city is welcoming me with open arms but I've been doing the move on a shoestring and so Aegon was planning to stay at a kennel while I got landed.  Once I had a good home secured next month I was going to swoop him up and bring him north to join me.  

Unfortunately, Aegon is a trouble maker of epic proportions and he surprised one of the kennel attendants by vaulting a fence and looking to mix it up with a group of horses, who gave him a kick for his troubles.  Anybody who has been or seen someone kicked by a horse knows how bad this can be, so I count us lucky that he is alive.

His back leg is badly broken.  He has a tibial fracture, his acl and mcl are damaged and one of the bones in the knee region has been sheared off from the force of the kick.  Aegon is going to need pretty intense orthoscopic surgery or he is going to lose his leg.  Not to mention that with me still getting settled up north, I don't have a reliable place for him to stay while he recovers.  His mom, Niki, who also loves him dearly, also has a limited ability to watch him because of her house and schedule and he's going to need a lot of care and observation post surgery, so the best and almost only option in the long term is to board him in a good place where he can have his meds administered on a good schedule and professionals can keep an eye on him. 

I simply don't have the money to cover these costs right now and the only immediate and inexpensive option I know is to surrender him to the Oregon Humane Society, where Niki and I got him.  If that happens they will make their own judgements about the surgery, potentially amputate anyway and after that, put him back up for adoption where he is not guaranteed to go to a reliable home that can handle a guy of his enthusiasm.

The good news is that I have insurance that will take a significant chunk of the actual surgery costs.  The bad news is that it only covers up to a certain amount and it does not cover boarding, which can run around $50 a day, so even after the surgery there is still going to be the long term expenses of boarding and care, which insurance does not cover.  

I'm fundamentally uncomfortable asking strangers for money but in this case I'm not asking it for me, I'm asking for my friend.  He's only three years old, he has an amazing and full life ahead of him and so much joy to experience.  So I'm asking you guys to help make sure he can do that, and do it fully.