Help Baron: A Puppy Needs You!

Vet visit and X-rays: $135
Amputation Surgery: $600
Neutering Fee: $80
Shots, De-worming, De-fleaing: ?

Saving a life: Not feeling so priceless.

So, I started this group to help Baron. He's a homeless puppy, he was very hurt, and he needs you.

I have set up a PayPal account for donations to help pay for Baron's health bills. Even a dollar makes a difference. If you could pass up that one coke, or a quarter of your daily Starbucks coffee, it would make a big difference to this little dog.

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So, today I found a puppy. He had wandered into my backyard and he was a mess- covered in mud, fleas, and obviously badly hurt (one leg was dangling uselessly). I gave him a bath and realized that his leg was seriously injured, and he probably needed to go to the vet. I called and they said I could bring him right in.

The vet knew just by looking at him that his leg was broken, and the X-rays confirmed this. She told me that it looked like he had probably been hit by a car, it had been broken for at least 10 days, and the healing process was at a stage that surgery would be extremely expensive and quite possibly ineffective because he had already lost a lot of bone mass. She gave me two reasonable options:

1) Amputation
2) Euthanization

Long story short I couldn't let them kill an otherwise perfectly healthy, happy, and sweet puppy, so I am soon to be the guardian of a three-legged puppy. ( I also decided to call him Baron, he didn't have any identification, and he was so pitiful I thought he needed a noble name)