Max is a 6-year-old German Shepherd in Clinton Corners, NY, who needs $2,000 for Enucleation Surgery.

Our Max needs an eye surgery to remove his eye that he lost due to Lyme disease. My daughter would love his friend to be healthy again.
Max came into our lives as a 8 month old puppy. He was as rambunctious and wild as German shepherds come. He loves to be outside, play with the cat and protect chickens.

If you were to stay with us for a day, you would see how important Max is in our lives: he is friend to a little girl, my protector, a companion to a black kitty Coco. He helps chase away the fox and barks at a hawk when they decided that our chickens is their dinner. And he is somebody to hug and talk to during Friday movie night.

Max looks very much like a dog German shepherd that I had and lost to illness when I was a child. I was hoping this time will be different, that my pet would live a long healthy life. Max is only 6 years old. Our veterinarian said that we can put him to sleep. It just does not seem right to do that because of just an eye.

Max always got his vaccines, yet he was still diagnosed with heartworm disease. His situation was complicated by additional Lyme diagnosis. Max's eye probably was the weak point: one day his eye was watery and two nights later he had glaucoma. I took him to emergency and to an eye specialist, gave him medicines, but his eye pressure kept building u, and within 2 weeks he lost his eye.

Max needs surgery by a specialist to remove the eye that is a dangerous source of infection.I am in the process of divorce and I cannot afford the surgery. Once his eye is gone, we can address his hear worm infection that is not advanced and our Max can be healthy again.