Reese Petunia is a 9-year-old Staffordshire Terrier in Jacksonville, FL, who needs $2,000 for Oncept Oral Melanoma Vaccine and Chest Radiographs.

My daughter and I rescued Reese when she was 6 months old. She captured our hearts immediately. She was not in a good situation, in fact we would later learn in the news how bad the situation was. I wanted to be sure she would be compatible with our 2 cats. We made arrangements to meet her in her environment. She was living in a cattery and we could see she loved cats and kittens!

Reese is my heart dog! She is a beloved family member. She loves my daughter Kaiti who lived at home for Reese’s first years and has always been crazy about her boyfriend. She adores my grandsons. When she was younger and more rambunctious she had a gentle mode for the kids. She tucks them in at night.
My mom visited recently, Reese tucked her in every night, once asleep she came downstairs.

Reese is bonded and BFF with Gracie cat who is also a rescue. Gracie and Reese sleep together always. Gracie is Reese’s emotional support during thunder storms. Reese loves the mailman and the delivery drivers. She waits to greet them! She seeks out children so she can see them. She would like to kiss them. Reese would like to kiss everyone that sits on our sofa on the lips!

Reese was diagnosed with a mast cell tumor & oral melanoma 11/22. She had 2 surgeries and completed the Oncept series of the oral melanoma vaccine. She is doing well. She has no metastatic disease. She had 30 post Oncept chest X-ray. Dr wants chest X-ray at 3 & 6 mo post Oncept. At 6 mo she needs an Oncept vaccine.
These costs total $2,129.21

I am still paying off medical expenses from an issue with my autoimmune (Lupus SLE, RA, Sjogrens) that caused loss of work, and I just had COVID and complications of for 3.5 weeks this March which I incurred a $3500 bill from Mayo.