Kimbo is a 5 year old Old English Bulldog in JACKSONVILLE, FL, who needs $21,000 for Cystotomy and Scrotal Urethrostomy.

What a wild rollercoaster the last 3 days have been. My lil buddy wasn't feeling well on Christmas Eve so we took him in to see the vet. It was decided that he would need surgery to have bladder stones removed. Friday morning he went in for surgery. After a long stressful day of waiting we were able to go pick him up and get him home. Within a few hours we noticed that things didn't seem right. We rushed him to the nearest emergency vet in the middle of the night. The staff there was great. They quickly identified the few possibilities that the problem could be. They determined that the care he would need may be beyond their capabilities and recommended that we take him to Gainesville if we wanted the best chance at saving him. Without hesitation we hauled ass to the University Of Florida's School of Vetenarian. They hopped into action quickly and immediately went to work to identify the problem. Here we are 2 sleepless days later. A few hard battles later. Multiple trips back and forth from Jax to Gainesville later. An unimaginable bill later and he's still fighting. My lil guy is fighting so hard. He's won a couple battles and he's also had a few set backs. We remain hopeful he's going to get through all of this and get back home to his family next week. My heart hurts. My stomach hurts. My eyes hurt, but my buddy hasn't given up and neither am I 😔 Please buddy, please pull through this and get back home 😭

On Christmas Eve we took him in to a local vet for an examination. It was determined that he would need a cystotomy and potentially a urethrotomy along with neutering. He ended up receiving both. After recovery, we were able to pick him up but quickly realized something was wrong. At the emergency vet, he received additional staples to the incision. Once at The University of Florida, they placed a red rubber catheter, upon waking up from anesthesia his blood pressure crashed. After stabilization he was taken for emergency ct scans. It was determined that the knot from the neutering procedure had unraveled, causing internal bleeding. The bleeding has clotted and remained stable. He is now scheduled for another cystotomy, clot removal and knot fix and potentially a scrotal urethrostomy if the urethra is damaged to the point of needing to be salvaged. We are now approximately at 20k total. We have exhausted cash and financed the rest. It will be extremely difficult to make these payments. We are praying for any kind of relief possible, but will find a way no matter what. We are absolutely devastated, but extremely hopeful in a happy ending.