Artyom is a 4 year old Central Asian Shepherd Dog in Selma, NC, who needs $6,000 for TPLO (Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy).

My cousin messaged me that her friends need someone to take their big dogs because they weren’t able to care for them properly so my husband and I said we would be able to take them. Artyom was only 10 months at the time we met him but we instantly fell in love with him. He’s a 150lb Armenian wolfhound. He lives inside and outside since we have a very large property he can run around in.

Artyom needed up tearing his CCL after trying to jump over a fence. Our vet told us our only option is to get surgery to fix it. The vet we take him to is Johnston Animal Hospital in Smithfield North Carolina

Artyom is the biggest couch potato (literally and figuratively) he loves his mom and follows her around like a shadow. He’s just the sweetest boy to everyone and everyone that meets him just instantly falls in love with his sweet personality and adorable face which just looks like a baby seal pup to me. He loves his mate and his younger brother buck who he plays with all the time.

We live paycheck to paycheck due to having many necessary repairs we have to do for our home such as buying a new AC unit. We have credit cards we are both trying to pay off which take a good chunk of money. I’d just cry from joy knowing my sweet boy is able to run and play