Maverick is a 6-month-old Great Dane in Lake Hiawatha , NJ, who needs $2,000 for Foreign Body Surgery.

We rescued maverick from St Huberts because we wanted to get my older dog a companion. Let’s be honest who doesn’t want a cute puppy. A day after we got him he was hospitalized due to phenomena and kennel cough. The shelter never told us the puppy was sick and when we asked the shelter for help they denied. Maverick had to stay in the hospital for 3 days and 2 nights. We live in a house.

Maverick loves to go on walks and loves to go swimming. He sleeps right in the middle of the big beds and hogs the best. He is a very loud snorer and must be in the middle of me and my boyfriend. He gets mad when you try and disturb him in the middle of the night. He loves his new baby brother who is 1 month older than him. He got the puppy so my son and him could grow up together.

He has the cutest ears ever! He was with a litter of 3 and he chose us. He is playful and crazy! After 3 hospitalized surgeries we now understood why this dog chose us. My son just started crawling and he tries to slide underneath him while crawling. He loves to play with him doggie brother Cash.

Maverick has had 3 abdominal surgeries. He had 2 blockages within a month apart. The second blockage they needed to remove some of his small intestine to fix it. A couple days after surgery we rushed him to the ER where he had complications from past surgery. He needed to go under after to remove the part they fused the small intestine. It was life or death surgery. We knew he was a fighter.

We are over $30,000 in debt. We need help. We are maxed out on credit cards. We had a down payment for a house which is gone. Thank god my parents let us live with them. We have no more savings. We had to take some money out of my sons bank account.