Lucas is a 13-year-old Yorkie Mix in Kew Gardens Hills, NY, who needs $2,000 for Radiation Therapy.

Lucas has been part of our lives since he was 6 weeks old. A friend of ours told us about her neighbor whose dog just had a litter and that is how we got Lucas. He currently lives at home with his aunt and grandma. He is 13 years young! Everyone that meets him thinks that he is a puppy because of his high energy. He doesn’t walk he runs and he is the house patrol and always knows where we are!

Lucas sleeps on the bed. He takes naps on the couch and on his bed all day. He’s a sleeper. But if he hears the door open or close the first thing he does is bark and then walks over to see who it is. It’s funny that we have new wooden floors and you can hear his clanking from his nails everyone he’s on the run. He is a tough cookie too and a very picky eater.

It’s a very expensive treatment that he may need to go through again and these costs are hard for us to cover. We believe that Lucas at 13, has so many more years to enjoy life and we want to give him that opportunity to live until he outlives us!

We noticed he had a growth in his lower right jaw and it grew bigger pretty quickly. After we first noticed this we took him to the vet to get it checked out and after some blood tests and a biopsy the vet told us that unfortunately it was oral malignant melanoma. Dr. Farrelly at Blue Pearl in Manhattan is currently treating Lucas with radiation to help slow the spread of his cancer.

Lucas, just like Zoolander, can’t turn left. When he gets excited to go out for a walk or for any reason that requires him to do circles he only turns to the right! We don’t know why and we never will, but it’s the cutest thing & we have tried to make him turn left with no success. He’s not friendly at first but warms up eventually. He lives to hang with the boys and will always ask for food!