Ivan is a 9 month old Great Dane in Cullman, AL, who needs $2,000 for Exploratory Surgery/Removal of Foreign Object.

Ivan was the puppy we never planned on keeping. My son wanted an offspring of his baby so we bred our female to his and fell in love with our goofy boy nicknamed at the time Gomer. He had the sweetest disposition and was so loving. We decided even though we were not going to keep a puppy we couldn't let him go.

As loving as he is, our boy has gotten quite naughty in his teenage years and has fallen victim to addiction. SOCKS. At this point we think he is actually stealing them from the dryer or our sock drawers because we are always finding piles of sock poop despite our best efforts of trying to keep them away. But, his addiction has gotten the best of him and he now has a blockage!

He is so gentle and has been raised with his besties, our twin 18 mo old grandbabies. They love him and he is so patient with all their fumbling and rough pets. He is their dog really! It would be devastating to lose him. We do have other older danes. And we have always been able to take care of them no matter the situation and are so careful to avoid mishaps like this. We can't lose our baby!

When I lost my job of 20 yrs earlier this year, we used all of our savings and emergency funds to stay afloat with our bills. When we had to choose a roof and utilities over credit card bills we lost our care credit card and our credit is now too bad to apply.