Porter is a 6-year-old Doberman Pinscher in Berlin, NJ, who needs 5,000 for surgery to remove a foreign object from his intestines. All the Creamer dogs need care.

Carol Creamer (Owner of C 2 Dog Training, LLC), could really use your help!

Carol and her dogs have unfortunately had a very rough start to 2020 with 3 separate expensive Veterinary Emergencies with 3 of her dogs (see more details about each dog’s emergency care below). Having 3 unexpected emergencies happen back to back has been a HUGE unexpected financial strain (approximately $17,000 in Veterinary bills in a 4 & 1/2 month time span). Add to that the Coronavirus Epidemic, which has caused Carol to temporarily lose income due to stay-at-home orders and social distancing restrictions, Carol really needs help to pay off the debt related to her 3 dogs’ unexpected emergency care. Here is the story of what happened:

Carol owns 5 wonderful dogs, Suri (13 year female chihuahua mix), Maeby (12 year female chihuahua mix), Bruce (10 year male large breed unknown mix), Porter (7 year male doberman pinscher), & Bea (4 year female doberman pinscher). Carol’s dogs enjoy training and competing in the sports of canine tricks, canine parkour, nosework, and barn hunt. Bruce is Carol’s training partner (he helps socialize puppy clients, he works to help dogs who are fearful of other dogs, he helps dogs who are dog-aggressive, and he demonstrates dog training obedience cues, tricks, canine fitness exercises, and more to training clients. Bruce is also a retired Therapy dog who used to visit the dementia ward in a retirement home.

Here are the stories of the 3 recent emergencies Carol’s dogs Suri, Porter, and Bruce have gone through:

In January Suri went to the Vet for a cough. While there for her exam she collapsed and her condition became emergent. It turns out something ruptured in her heart and it caused her to go into instantaneous congestive heart failure (she went from having no heart murmur to a grade 4 heart murmur within minutes). She had to be given emergency heart medications and was placed in an Oxygen Cage. She was unstable and had to remain in the Intensive Care Unit of the Emergency Veterinary Hospital in an Oxygen Cage for several days. Luckily for Suri, and her owners Carol and Rob, Suri pulled through and was able to come home. Under the continued care of a board certified Veterinary Cardiologist, Suri’s condition is currently managed on multiple heart failure medications which she needs three times daily. Suri is stable and back to her happy spunky little self!

Then in February, Porter got sick with some gastrointestinal symptoms. The Veterinarian determined that Porter had an intestinal obstruction and needed surgery. It turns out he got a piece of a bone stuck in his lower intestines. Due to Porter’s unstable condition while hospitalized (and the findings on his radiographs and abdominal ultrasounds), the Veterinarians treating him recommended his surgery be performed by a board certified Veterinary Specialty Surgeon. It was a good thing his surgeon was a specialist because Porter had multiple complications from the obstruction, and the surgeon had to remove 18 inches of his jejunum (part of his lower intestines). Porter was critical after surgery and had to spend a few days in the Intensive Care Unit at the Emergency Animal Hospital. Again, Carol and Rob were extremely lucky that another one of their dogs survived a serious emergency! Thankfully, Porter is now home and back to his normal self doing everything he loves!

Unfortunately, after everything with Suri & Porter, Bruce then developed a problem at the end of March. Bruce had a small sebaceous cyst rupture open on his side. He was treated by a Veterinarian the day it happened but unfortunately his body didn’t respond normally to treatment. He experienced multiple complications and had extreme difficulty healing. He had 2 cytologies, 2 cultures, a biopsy, and 3 surgical prodcedures on the area before finally healing (a process that took almost 2 months)! Thank god he’s finally healed and the biopsy was cancer free!

The Veterinary care for these 3 emergencies have cost approximately $17,000 over a 4 & 1/2 month time span.

So needless to say, it’s been a terrible few months with 3 back-to-back unexpected Veterinary Emergencies for the “C 2 Crew” (as Carol’s dogs are nicknamed). Thankfully they are all doing well despite what they went through! If you’d like to see photos and videos of the “C 2 Crew” you can visit Carol’s dog training Facebook business page www.Facebook.com/C2DogTraining and search for #C2Crew. Carol’s dogs are often in pictures and videos seen on her page because they all perform training demonstrations and Bruce assists with client lessons.

Please help if you can! Even if everyone who sees this donated $1 it would make a huge difference for Carol and her beloved dogs, especially Bruce who likely needs another surgery which would add a few thousand dollars to her already existing Veterinary care.

If you don’t like making donations to crowdfunding sites you can also call Mount Laurel Animal Hospital at 856-234-7626 and donate straight to my Veterinary account balance. My Vet account # is 20958 (please double check with the receptionist that it’s going onto Carol Creamer’s account). Checks can also be mailed to the hospital: Mount Laurel Animal Hospital 220 Mount Laurel Road Mount Laurel New Jersey 08054.

Thank you for listening. Carol, her husband Rob, and “The C 2 Crew” thank anyone in advance who makes a donation of any size to help Carol pay her Veterinary bills!