Please help save our puppy, Luna

For those of you who don’t know, I adopted this beautiful pupper exactly one week ago today (on Thursday July 26) in Newark NJ. Colette and I have been dealing with some things in life the past few months that have been a bit difficult.. but the one thing that we knew we both wanted was a dog. Not a tiny puppy, but a puppy that was almost 2-year-old… She wanted a husky I wanted a German shepherd… And then one day randomly on craigslist, yes craigslist… We found and fell in love with Luna. I made the call and immediately drove to NJ to meet her.

I was told by the family she was a very healthy dog, and she seemed it when I got her… However the situation she was living in is not the best. And to spare the families’ details I will simply say that she didn’t own a leash and had never been on a walk, and didn’t even know other dogs existed... I knew that we needed to save this dog. 

Sine we got her she has been with us out and and about and many of you guys got to meet her, shes even gone to one of my hockey games! She is a very curious and fun dog who is just starting to see how big the world really is.. 


After about two days of being here she starts acting very lethargic and very… Strange. She wouldn’t eat at all. I tried a few different dog foods, including the food she was on at her previous home and she wouldn’t touch any of it. I thought she was maybe just adjusting but then it got worse… So much so that I had to bring her to the emergency vet yesterday to see what was going on. After the vet I brought her back home and she still was very very sick, vomiting everywhere, hiding. To the point where… She disappeared yesterday. After hours of searching through the night I (nor my brother who came to help) couldn’t find her.

Thankfully this morning... she was found.. and for those of you asking, she was hiding somewhere in the house, Despite us ripping the entire house apart from top to bottom for two hours last night. Myself, Colettey and my brother looked around vigorously… She was nowhere to be found.

After Luna was found this morning by my dad who came to my house to search, I returned home to a still lethargic, sickly, vomiting dog. She’s been worsening and I’m afraid she is dying in front of my eyes. 

So I made another vet appointment with a better trusted vet. I have just returned from the vet and after getting a second x-ray… Which means the ones I got yesterday were a complete waste of $450… as they did not really get a full X-ray. 

They now see that there is some inflammation going on and believe that there is a foreign object somewhere in her intestines. They fear that because it’s going on so long on her bowels are going to start to die off sooner than later. They recommended that I am mediately go and get her on an IV to get pumped through her intestines. This second visit cost me $200 just for x-rays and thankfully the people there were absolutely incredible and I am so thankful that I was recommended them by my dear friend, Jamie. 

This IV procedure is an overnight fluid flush which right off the bat is going to cost me at least $1500 when I walk in. This is all on the hopes that this will help whatever the object is pass, but the doctor seems to think that it may not work because it is been in there for so long. Which leads to the next part of this… If it doesn’t help flush her gastrointestinal tract at the emergency vet tonight, they want to do exploratory surgery to figure out what exactly is going on. The cost on this in total is going to be somewhere between  $4500-$5500 the doctor told me. I sat there in shock not knowing what to do… But I know I can’t let this dog die. She has been so protective of Colettey and has brought so much love and joy into this house that I have to make this work somehow and someway. I know many of you have already offered to send money for these vet bills and I am absolutely taken back at all of your generosity. 

It truly means the world to me. And as much as I really do not want to do this, after talking to some of my best friends and family I don’t think there is any other option for me. The last thing I want to do is let his dog passed away when she can be saved. If I had the money I would empty my pockets to do this, however as many of you know I am a single dad and I worked very very hard for what I have in life and to take care of my daughter. I have only had this dog for one week exactly and it has been one of the most expensive weeks of my life. I didn’t even have time to get pet insurance and I can’t even if I had time now because this is a pre-existing condition. I have already applied for and been denied care credit. I have checked my options and I have literally no idea what to do. So I have to resort to this. I can’t even bring her into the doctor tonight without money to pay for the things they need to do. 

In just one week she has brought the love and joy into this house that we have needed..
You'll see the immense change through out these photos (sorry if they are out of order, my heads all over the place) 

I’m in a rock and a hard place and we could really use the help to save our new puppy.