Shippo's vet bill's

Hello facebook! And hello to all fur-baby lovers! My name is shippo, but my family calls me pumpkin butt. I am a very hansome Dachsund chihuahua mix, and I am 6 yrs old. I love yummies and cuddle times. I love my hoomans, and I especially love the baby hoomans. I also really love to be babied myself. In a perfect world I would be held and fed constantly, while i bestow kisses like a furry prince charming.

Except that I recently started to feel icky. I woke up my mommy in the middle of the night, something was very wrong, and I was having trouble breathing. So mom and dad rushed me to the vet right away. The doctor said my lungs were sicky, so i'd need some medicine to feel better. What they didnt say was how yucky the medicine was, blech. But I was a good boy and I ate my medicines, at first....

After a week, I hadn't gotten any better, and my new xrays said I had even gotten worse. So they said i had to eat twice as many yucky pills. This made my tummy upset, so I really couldnt eat. Mommy and daddy were very scared, when I started loosing weight so fast. I lost 6 lbs in 5 days! So we went back to the doc, for the fifth time in 3 weeks. The doctor said there wasn't anything else he could do, and that I needed a specialist. The problem was, that every specialist we could find had no opening till late october. Daddy and mommy knew i didnt have that long.

Our one chance was MSU emergency. That maybe they would be able to help me. So daddy took time off work, packed the family in the truck, and drove 4 and a half hours, all the way to Lansing. There I met a lot of nice doctors, who all wanted to help me. They have every tool and every expert imaginable, and there is no better place for me to be!

They have put me on oxygen, as my lungs have been struggling to get enough air, and are currently running tests to find out exactly what's wrong, so i can get better. The only issue with that is its very ,very expensive to be in this doggy hospital. My mommy and daddy are trying their hardest to take care of everything, but the bills are getting to be too much. With the stay in Intensive care unit and the special lung test it's already over $6000 dollars, and every day adds more. I love my mom and dad, and I would do anything to help them, just as much as they are doing everything to help me, but I cant pay for x rays with kisses. Nor for antibiotics with cuddles. So I have to ask please, would you please consider giving a little to help me pay for the treatments I need in order to get better. Any little bit will help, and be greatly appreciated! Thank you all! I am very grateful to you who have stayed this long to read my letter!

- Shippo