Deuce is a 3-year-old Miniature Yellow Lab in Antioch, CA, who needs $310 for surgical foxtail removal.

My Puppy-Son’s original name is Deuce. That is the name he had when he was 11 weeks old and showed up outside my 3rd floor apartment door in 2017. He was so tiny, scared, and abused. His owner at the time come to find out lived 2 floors down and her boyfriend had decided to get him and train him to be an aggressive guard dog. As soon as my husband opened our front door the tiny little yellow thing ran right into our apartment and jumped into my arms where he almost instantly fell asleep. I was in love. My husband talked the couple into letting me have him and from that moment on when I moved he moved. We quickly learned that Deuce had been though a lot for being so young and so small. After eating on a schedule for 3 days. He threw up a pair of little girls underwear, that same night I woke up to him crying and couldn’t figure out where he was at until I looked down my hallway to see my poor baby sitting at the bathroom door (with it wide open) stuck and unable to get out the only thing between him and I at that moment was a broom stick that had fallen or leaned across the doorway but in no way was it keeping him from being able to leave the bathroom but he was terrified of that broom. That’s when I went to the old owners and refused to leave until I was given the truth about what all had been done to my baby before he became mine. Turns out he never saw much of anywhere else other then the bathroom. If he was too loud that’s when the broom stick came out. He had also only been fed 4 times in the almost 2 weeks that had had him. Which is why he was eating the little girls clothing off of the bathroom floor. My heart broke for my new baby but I promised him that even if I wasn’t able to give him a perfect life I would still protect him with everything I have in me and he would never have to live like that again.

Deuce who also now answers to Puppakins and on his grumpy days he also goes by Deuceifer and I have been through Hell and back the last few years. My husband and started to turn violent and Deuce had become my protector at one point. We got away from that ugly situation and have lived through homelessness, couch surfing and we have walked for miles and miles on end together. It wasn’t until this last April that our luck started to make a change for the better. We found a room that we rent that is all OURS. I have been blessed enough to have a few less then part time jobs and I am able to maintain our rent and keep us both fed. We still walk to where we have to go but we have learned to take everything one step at a time. At our home Deuce has a big side yard area that he can go out to whenever he would like and that’s actually how this trouble began. I have spent hours out there pulling weeds, racking and trying to get rid of all the foxtails. Unfortunately I didn’t do so well and there is one that is someplace up his nasal cavity and seems to be working it’s way into dangerous territory. He needs surgery to remove it and has spen the last 16 hours violently sneezing and with those sneezes he has been spraying drops of blood all over our little room and also all over the both of us. I am begging for ANY help I can get to cover the cost of the surgery he needs to make him feel better again. I can barely cover our rent right now and I am searching everyday for a full time job that I can get to and from on a daily basis but with my puppy-son being sick he is all I can focus on. Please anything will help!