Papi is a 3-year-old Chihuahua in Rockford, IL, who needs $1,900 for IVDD.

Hi my name is Christin. Papi came into me and my son's life as a gift after our chihuahua of 16 years passed away. Papi is only 3 years old and he is such a lover ro everyone (I know a rare find lol). He is the love of our lives. He has a sibling who was rescued from our local shelter, his name is Teddy. They are best friends!

Papi is my son's best friend. After our Moriah passed away he was so devastated. These three are like the 3 musketeers! They cuddle together, sleep together, and are pretty much unseperable. He loves his family and loved to be able to go on walks and shake his honey on command. Not to mention his cute snaggle tooth! He is such a wonderful loving furbaby.

Papi loves his sqeeky toys and milk bones. He is absolutely in love with crinkly toys too! When you go up to give him kisses he reciprocates with his kisses right back! We cannot imagine a day without him! We just hope that he can go back to the Papi we have grown to love over the last 3 years. Without him our hearts won't be full.

Papi is in need of surgery ASAP. Sunday we noticed that he was limping just a little then, 5 hours later he could not move his back legs at all. This was something that came on so quick. We rushed to our ER vet and found d out that he slipped a disk. We are having surgery this Wednesday at the latest. He is being treated in Aurora IL by the neurologist there.

I am a single mom and this was not an expected as it is now an emergency surgery. The surgery in itself is 9,700. I i have some of the money but, cannot afford the entire surgery on my own.