Tonka is a 6 year old Mix-Breed in Hermantown, MN, who needs $4,000 for Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy Surgery.

I lost both my dogs in the divorce, and fostering was the only thing keeping my heart from collapsing. Then a friend’s Pit–Husky litter needed homes. I was hesitant, scared of the stereotypes, but I agreed to try. When I met them, one pup walked straight to me, looked into me, and I just knew. He wasn’t a trial. He was home.

Tonka had a TPLO surgery a couple years ago in his back left leg and they told me it was likely to happen in the other. They were right, It's time for the other leg now.

It's agony to watch him forgo his greatest joy—our daily adventures on the trails—a ritual he lives for six days a week. It absolutely shatters me to see him lying by the door, his beautiful eyes pleading and confused as I leave for a walk, knowing he is trapped by pain and unable to join me.

I lost my job last May due to, "Foreseen uncertainty in the Global Supply Chain" and have been a HS paraprofessional since Sept. I do not live lavishly but this paycheck gets me from one to the next. My and Tonka's happy place is on the trails and he can't even walk.