HERO

For those of you who are not familiar with "Hero" and his brief past. He is from the L.A., California area. He was dumped in a shelter 2 or 3 days after Christmas. We first picked up on this his story on Facebook, The rescue who saved him was trying to obtain funds with a chip- in to cover his medical expenses. The story that they posted read...
XMAS PUPPY DUMPED IN SHELTER 3 DAYS LATER

This poor little baby was obviously someone's Christmas present only to find himself abandoned in the shelter 3 days later. He appears to be about 5 weeks old and should probably still be with his mommy. He was dumped at a Los Angele's County Shelter because he is having seizures. He actually had a seizure while being transported to the vet's office form the shelter. This sweet baby needs vetting, blood-work, bile acid test, etc..

Hero started having seizures again around January 20th, and this time it got worse. He had 8 in about 24 hours and it seemed that the medication that they had been treating him with appeared to no longer be working. It was brought up by some followers that he may be suffering too much, and the time of where something needs to be done is near possibly.

We have just taken him in for an MRI and Catscan and a spinal tap. The news was a bit depressing. Hero has finished his tests and we have a diagnosis. Hero has a pocket of fluid on the brain which is causing his seizures, aggression and vision issues. They cannot draw all the fluid out because of the pocket size, doing that will cause his brain to collapse so he would need a shunt placed so that the fluid can slowly drain. They state only because of his young age he is a candidate and without this surgery he will need to be euthanized, since he will continue to decline. The surgery is approx. $11,000 dollars and with rescue discount will be $7,000-$9,000 as much as I and all of you love him, this rescue can not pay this, its impossible and Im so very sad to tell you all this horrible news.

We have started a new chip-in for Hero and we need to raise the funds ASAP, because they said his health will continue to decline until, and he has already been through so much. We do not know at this time how much more his body can take. This is our last hope for Hero.