Gus is an eight-week-old Pug mix puppy in Columbus, OH, who needs $1,080 for treatment of pneumonia.

Gus is defying the odds, and he needs your help!

He's hospitalized with aspiration pneumonia, and his rescuers at Stop the Suffering are doing all they can to keep him going.

"Aspiration pneumonia for a puppy this size does not generally have great results. Gus is being treated by a team of professionals at Med Vet," Lynne A., with the group, tells Waggle. "The treatment has involved two full days on a ventilator and now high-flow oxygen through a nasal tube. We are hopeful he has no setbacks, and the plan is to move him to the oxygen chamber next."

Puppy Gus is one of six puppies born in the rescue's care when they saved a pregnant mother dog left at a rural shelter on Christmas.

"Gus lives with canine siblings in his foster home," Lynne says. "He is a very spunky and alert puppy. He loves to play, loves to be held, and is always in a super happy mood. Gus's foster mom is really in love with him and hopefully will be adopting him since he fits in so well at her home. Gus loves his crate and everything about life as a puppy."

Now the rescue is widely trying to raise money to pay for all of Gus's emergency, life-saving care.

"We are an all-breed rescue and go to the ends of the earth for our charges," Lynne says. "We are all praying for little Gus. It will mean the world to his foster home and to us to have him healthy after everything he has survived."