Lollie is a 10 year old Poodle in East Greenwich, RI, who needs $2,000 for Cancer Vaccine for Melanoma.

Lollie is puppy mill survivor rescued from a kill shelter in Arkansas. I saw her on Petfinder over10 yrs ago and fell in love. Her foster named her. I adopted Lollie and had her transported to RI when she was 8 wks old. My Dal mix, Maddie, took her under wing and the first lesson was how to do a perimeter. They became best friends. Lollie became alpha and still orders the bigger dogs around.

I just lost Maddie. She was 17. The next month, Lollie had the cancer diagnosis. She had a toe tumor. It took a month to see the surgeon for a consult. Lollie was limping and clearly hurting. Dr. David Sweet at Ocean State Veterinary Services in East Greenwich, RI, amputated her toe and removed and biopsied a lymph node and tumor. It was Melanoma, but had not spread yet. I called oncology.

Lollie, 26 lbs, once launched herself into the air and scolded a larger dog that had lunged at me. She and Maddie would squeeze into my mom's hospital bed when mom was on hospice. They would not be kept from her. Whether sleeping on her back or trying to look innocent after eating something she shouldn't when said item is clearly in her beard, she makes me laugh. Her tail never stops wagging.

Oncologist Caleb Alexander, at OSVS, thinks Lollie should have a cancer vaccine that could extend her life. It's a series of 4 vaccines and a booster. The cost is $1500 per vaccine. Without this treatment, the cancer will spread. I took out $6000 in loans to cover the surgery, funds are now needed for cancer treatment.