Bruce is a 2-year-old American Akita in MOUNT WASHINGTON, KY, who needs $2,000 for Cyst Removal Surgery.

This beautiful Akita was born right in our home. He is the only male to our other male akita that we recently had to put down- he was our first baby and was 12 years old. Bruce is almost three and is so sweet! Until this situation, he was so active and pure puppy! He loved to run and was so fast!

Bruce loves to eat and play with our nine year old son. He sleeps at the end of our bed or on the living room couch and loves to be any where we are!

Bruce has become our therapy dog upon loosing our first Akita, Elvis.
He is such a sweet, big baby! He loves to give kisses and when his legs were working, he would jump up to give the best doggy hugs!

At first we noticed that Bruce's back leg looked stiff and after getting xrays and trying some meds, it started to get worse and he started to loose control of his back legs. He had trouble standing and he couldn't run. We finally had an MRI at Metropolian Veterinary and found out that he has a cyst pushing on his spine that looks to require surgery

Again, Bruce is like our therapy dog because he looks so much like his late father! I would mean so much to be able to see him run again. He is so young and we don't have $5000-7000 to cover his surgery.