Luna is a 4-year-old Golden Retriever/ Australian Shephard in Loudon, TN, who needs $1,000 for Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy (TPLO).

My husband is a delivery driver in a very rural area of East Tennesee. He noticed a yard with multiple dogs and puppies. They were living in the muddy barn. The mom had stopped nursing the pups at 6 weeks & a dog was nasty with this one pup. My husband brought her home! She had multiple health issues and neurological issues due to her poor nutrition.

Luna is our only dog. She had 2 sheltie siblings who passed last year ( 1 from old age & diabetes the other from a ruptured intestine). She spends her day lounging with our lazy cat. When we get home, Luna runs for her favorite purple ball and we play fetch for countless hours. Outside, she's a frisbie fanatic. When the day is done, she turns into a 65 lb lap dog.

Luna loves balls. Not just any ball, PURPLE balls. She will dig through her box to find the purple ball each time. She will hold it on your lap with her nose until you throw it. She even tosses it in the air or bats it around to play on her own. Her favorite solo game is to put it in a laundry basket and push the basket around the house.

Because of Luna's excitement for her purple ball, she will run, slide and wipe out. She took a corner too sharp and tore her ACL tendon in her hind leg. Her ball chasing is over and we have to keep her sedated so she won't want to play. Now she lays on the floor with sad eyes and her purple ball by her paw.

Our precious shelties died less than a year ago. Our Joey stopped eating and had to have emergengy surgery for a ruptured intestine. $6000 and he passed 2 days later. I was left with the bill. Now poor Luna needs surgery and I can't afford 2 large vet bills.