Fiona is a 10-month-old Pit Mix in Mount Clemens, MI, who needs $2,000 for Enterotomy-Multiple Sites.

My girlfriend and I adopted Fiona about 7 months ago. She was a frail little thing at the time and to be honest always has been. While we were playing with her before adopting her, a new batch of dogs came into the shelter. One of them was named shrek. And as soon as we heard that name we couldn’t help but name her Fiona. She has 2 brother that lover her just as much as we do.

She is an extremely shy thing around everyone that she doesn’t know. But for the ones she calls family she is nothing less that attached to the hip. It’s hard to walk without her being right under you just trying to get some love and affection from her humans. She loves playing with her brothers. They have trained her to run as fast as she can at squirrels even if she doesn’t know why they do it.

She has a consistent need to lay under the blankets with you. Either when you’re sleeping or just sitting in the couch watching your favorite show she is right there either digging her head into your chest or begging to go under the blankets. Or she does this as we call the “princess trot”. Where she bounces on our walks in what we can only describe as a Royal trot. It’s adorable to say the least.

After coming home from work there was vomit all over the place. Which usually is a good sign to go to the ER in itself. Thankfully we were able to get into the animal emergency center. They told us she had hypothermia. Along with a blockage in her small intestine. Turns out her intestine was actually collapsed in on itself. She needed emergency surgery to save her life. But it was expensive.

The surgery was an expensive unforeseen issue. I’m a disabled veteran with a fixed income that does a little work on the side for extra cash. The money is too much to handle but it was worth saving our babies life. 10 mo old isn’t long enough to be snuffed out.