Simba is an 8-year-old Border Collie in Lorton, VA, who needs $2,000 for emergency surgery and treatment of pneumonia.

Hello. We are a family of three: I’m Eunsol, my husband is Egan and my fur baby is Simba. Simba is an 8 year old Border Collie who thinks he’s still a puppy with very high energy. On 10/3, my baby Simba and I were playing fetch when he got a stick lodged in his throat. My husband and I took him to the vet and after a few hours, he was able to come back home. However, a more dire situation came up. He wasn’t acting like himself and after taking him to the ER we found out a piece of the stick is still lodged in his throat. To make things worse, he developed pneumonia with a fever of 105 degrees. Doctors suspect that when the stick got caught in his throat, it caused a mild hemorrhage and saliva went through his trachea which resulted in fluid in his lungs. This developed into pneumonia. He will have to have surgery to remove the stick, but Simba will need to spend more time to recover from the pneumonia first before they can operate. Now it’s Day 3 at the ER and his temperature has gone down to 103 degrees and he is relatively stable. So far he’s had a couple of X-rays and one CT scan taken. He is still hooked up to antibiotics, IV, and oxygen.