Ted is a 8-year-old Chihuahua Mix in San Diego, CA, who needs $2,000 for Sepsis with possible bowel obstruction.

Ted joined our family 5 years ago when we saved him from an Orange County rescue.. They called him Forrest, but he didn’t respond to that name. He looked like a Ted and tilted his head so cute when I asked him if he was a Ted. He just looked so scared and sad until I picked him up and set him on my lap. He didn’t try to jump away, he just sat there and looked up at me with the sweetest eyes.

Ted sleeps in our bed, usually on his back with his feet in the air, close to us. He loves to go for daily walks, the dog park, and chase “Lizzie’s” in our backyard. He communicates by tilting his head, tapping us lightly with his paw, or leading us somewhere. His eyes do a lot of talking as well. He likes to play a protective game where he “protects mama” and won’t let anyone else near.

Ted’s favorite place is the dog park where he sees the same little dog friends everyday. He looks forward to it and looks depressed on days that he can’t go. Ted is usually a quiet little dog, except when he sees a big dog on the other side of the cyclone fence at the dog park. He loves chasing and barking at the bigger dogs up and down the fence line with his group of lil dogs.

Ted unknowingly had an ascended testicle when we got him. It was discovered accidentally during a routine dental visit when his doctor felt a mass in his tummy area. Further testing showed that the tumor was Seminoma testicular cancer. Ted had surgery and then 6 chemotherapy treatments ending in Dec 2021, but then this most recent hospital visit was necessary after he in ingested a ham bone.

Ted’s cancer surgery and treatments were something I never expected. It was emotional for me to see Ted go through all of that, beat cancer, only to end up back in the hospital this past week from apparently eating a ham bone. He’s already gone through more than a dog should