Lucia is a 2-year-old German Shepherd in Reno, NV, who needs $1,774 for a leg amputation.

Well I lost one of my dogs, Junior, so I got Lucia to help my other dog, Cha-Cha, with the loss so she would have a friend again. And also so my husband and I both had a fur baby. Not long after we got Lucia though I lost my husband Robert and Cha-Cha. So then it was just me a Lucia. She's all I have left. I'm disabled and my nephew helps take care of me and my dog when he can. But he has a life and his own dog so I don't try to bother him too often. Lucia is my best friend. The one that's always with me and there for me. I can't take another loss of someone I love. That would be four of my closest loved ones in two years, the three already is hard enough. My pup Junior first. Then my husband and best friend Robert. Last my girlie Cha-Cha who I had for 15 wonderful years. I can't lose Lucia.