Bear is a 4-year-old Golden Retriever mix in Honolulu , HI, who needs $4,900 for surgery to repair a torn hindleg ligament (like a torn ACL in a human).

Bear belonged to a friend of ours but they had to give him up at 4 months old that’s when, right before my now husband went off to naval boot camp in 2015, we adopted Bear. I was finishing out my senior year of high school When bear came to live with my parents and I. Since getting married, Bear has moved with us as the navy has moved us. We’ve been to Washington, Hawaii, and soon to be Maine together. He is more than a dog to us, he is our baby boy. When people ask if we have children, our response is always “our dog is our child”. We’d do anything for him. He keeps me much needed company when my husband deploys. He’s a diesel mechanic on submarines so communication is very limited but Bear keeps me going.