Nala is a 6-year-old German Shepherd in Dorchester, MA, who needs $2,000 for an MRI of the brain.

I got Nala the month after I graduated from college. I wasn’t sure what I was going to name her but when I brought her home I couldn’t stop looking at how big her paws were! Lion sized paws! And with that I decided Nala was her name, a fierce, strong willed lioness(but really I knew she was a dog...) We have been together for 6 years now, and she has helped me through so much of my depression that has taken over my life in the past 5 years. She gives me a reason to get up in the morning. She loves me even when I can’t love myself, and for that I owe her the world.