Snitch is a 7-year-old Carolina/Cattle in Edmonds, WA, who needs $2,000 for TPLO Surgery.

I checked the Seattle Humane website for a year and missed out on dogs I was interested in. One day, I saw a new post and drove for an hour. Upon arrival, I knew she would be adopted by 1 of the 5 families already in line. I asked for her & to my surprise, they could not find her. 3 employees later, they found her away from public view. She purred on my son's lap on the drive home. Yes-PURRED!

She sleeps with me, sometimes with my son. She is a caretaker, so emotionally aware that she climbed into my lap when I received a cancer diagnosis, gently cleaning off my tears. Or nuzzles my son when he is sad or frustrated. She literally makes me go to bed when I start nodding off on the couch. She LOVES her massages. She LOVES the dog park and ONLY fetches balls from water, not land.

I call her my "cat-dog". She loves the cat toys with a wand & a critter on the end of a string or toys with floppy legs that hit her in the face when she shakes it. Her prized toy is my son's stuffed Tigger. She deposits her live catches at the back door like a cat; rabbits, birds, voles, moles. She claws the bark off of trees and eats the insects. She eats like a cat too. She LOVES rabbit food.

She has been my exercise partner and helped me a lot of weight. Last week, she was doing zippies with her Tigger and tore her ACL. She is fully lame using only 3 legs due to the pain. Her consult last week with Dr. Spall at Oceanside Animal Clinic in Long Beach, WA was dire. She needs TPLO surgery that we can't provide. She is only 7 years old with so much life left to live and love to give.

As a teacher, I can't meet this kind of unexpected expense. She is such an important part of our family's health and emotional well-being and is truly our "soul mate" dog. She challenges me to exercise and sleep habits and is an invaluable part of my son's emotional therapy.