Malaga is a 4 year old American Shorthair in Fresno, CA, who needs $1,000 for Emergency Dental Treatment.

When my family and I became homeless in January 2025, I was lucky enough to find the right person to help me certify Malaga as my emotional support animal. Since securing LIHTC housing as an extremely low-income family, we are still at-risk of homelessness. Due to being the sole-parent to my son and going back to school this semester as a full-time student, I need Malaga more than ever!

Malaga cries out in pain whenever she begins to yawn and whenever she attempts to eat; now, refusing to eat and drink. Due to this being a life or death situation, I have been trying to enforce her water intake with a baby syringe. If I’m able to attain the emergency funds to get her the medics help she is needing, I would immediately take her to the HOPE Animal Foundation to get her treated.

Since rescuing Malaga in August 2022, she has become an equal member of my family, and a special companion to me during times when I struggle to overcome mental health challenges. From the first day my family and I became homeless, she was the only one to show me what family truly means. She loved me during the most difficult challenge I have ever overcome. She’s my best friend.

During our fight with homelessness, I exhausted, both, my son and I’s savings that I had worked so hard for. The emergency funds I would’ve had right now would’ve been spent on Malaga’s emergency treatment. To have Malaga live another normal day, would mean everything to me!