Palmer is a 12-year-old in Cape Coral, FL, who needs $582 for Lymphoma.

We came across Palmer at a summer party where a friend had a ready to wean litter of puppies. The puppies were running around, jumping and biting each other. Except one. One sleeping, mellow puppy with gold colored eyes that matched his coat. Such a mellow, laid back dog was the one for us. He outgrew his eye color...and his mellowness.

Palmer’s role in the household is he is the one in charge. He always has a Milk bone at 8:00pm , and knows precisely when it’s time. He will take u to his lead when he wants to go, and loves to go in the car. He thinks he is a lapdog, but at 90lbs....he is, a really big lapdog. He is older now, harder to get up on the couch, likes to sleep more...like he’s becoming that mellow little puppy again.

Palmer barked at the new neighbor one day, until the neighbor brought him pieces of bacon. I think he likes the neighbor more than us now, waiting at the back fence in the the grass for his buddy with bacon, or bacon that comes with that guy. Also, loves his tennis ball, especially when we start throwing more than one at a time.

Palmer threw up one night, several times. I didn’t know what was wrong, but I took off his collar, because I could feel large swollen areas in his neck. He was slower moving, and we had to find a vet, for, what we thought was infection, for antibiotics. The Happiness Animal Hospital we went to diagnosis was lymphoma, he had swollen glands all through his body.

I used to be a two income family, doing fairly well with bills, but the loss of my spouse’s income after four surgeries, heart failure, and not able to work, has made making ends meet more difficult, almost impossible. And now, the ecomony is moving that goal further away.