Julia, a special doggy who needs an operation.

Julia, is paralysed and needs an operation.

Hi everyone, my name is Julia and I live at Sully's Sanctuary with my mum & dad, my very best friend Emily and all my other friends there. Before I came to live here, I was found lying on the side of a busy road, paralysed. You can imagine how frightened I was and how much pain I was in. I didn't know what would happen to me, I was so scared and felt so alone. Then a man who was driving past saw me and stopped. At first, I didn't know if he was a nice man or not or if he was going to hurt me as where I was found many dogs do get hurt but this day that I was found was a lucky day for me as I was found by a very nice young man who wanted to try and help me and not leave me all alone to try and fend for myself. I think I might have died if he had not stopped to help me. This kind man took me to the vet. I heard the vet saying that I had a fractured spine and I got really scared as the vet suggested I should be put to sleep. How could he say this when I had just been saved and I wanted to live and be happy and I had dreams of a family of my very own to love me. How could I tell the vet that I wanted to live... I had no voice. Thankfully the kind man who found me did not agree to have my life taken. Instead, he found help from a wonderful rescue called Strays Without Borders and my journey to thankfully live began as they didn't give up on me. I needed more care than other doggies so I was placed into care with a lady to look after me while I had x-rays. There I met my very best friend in the whole world, Emily, who is also paralysed because of a car crashing into her too. We played together, slept together, we were and still are inseparable. Then I got an offer of a permanent home with my now mum & dad but what about my best friend Emily, now could I leave her behind. Thankfully my new mum to be saw the bond I had with my friend Emily and my dream came true that my now mum & dad, Jacqui & David who have a little Sanctuary called Sully's Sanctuary in South Lincolnshire, they asked to have Emily too, to join their family so that Emily and I could be together always. Emily and I travelled a really long journey to get to our new family. When we first arrived, we weren't sure what was happening, and we stayed close together as everything was new to us. A new home, new smells and sounds and other friends we had yet to get to know but Emily and I didn't need to worry as we were allowed to just be ourselves and settle slowly in our own time. Very soon we were back to playing and pulling ourselves around and moving around the floor with our strong front legs and playing with toys and meeting our new friends. Nothing stopped us having fun, not even with both of us being paralysed. Recently Emily and I have be seeing some vets to try and determine if there was anything that could be done to help us. Oh and did I tell you that I can walk on my front legs and lift my heavy paralysed legs right off the floor but my mum and the specialist says that the way my legs are fused and frozen in a forward position under my tummy, that I am twisting my spine and distorting my back by trying to hold my back legs out of the way to one side. They say this will only cause me more problems in the long run and this won't be good for me. I want to carry on living a happy life that I am now, playing with my new friends, even running around the paddock on my front legs but I need an operation to stop my spine getting worse when I try to carry my heavy legs off the floor. It is hard work and makes me quite tired but I just love to run free, safe and happy in my huge garden. This operation will help me to get around easier and I can then also have wheels to whizz around and have even more fun. I know my mum & dad will worry when I am away having my operation, and I will miss them and Emily too, but it will help me to move around easier. My mum & dad have many expenses as they run their little sanctuary with other doggies to care for. So, we have set up this gofundme to try and get some help towards my operation even though my mum & dad don't like to ask but if some lovely people can please spare any small amount towards the cost of my operation, I would be so very happy. Lots of love from me Julia and my best friend Emily who will have her operation after me. xxx