MIAMI – One native pup has been sick for months now, and with a number of totally different diagnoses and a nonetheless unwell invoice of well being, this poor pooch wants a treatment.
“This is my soul dog — he is my lifeline. I cannot live without him,” Kyra Axelson stated.
Axelson adopted Kilo in 2015.
“The sweetest thing I have ever met — all over me, jumping on me, kissing me, and I just fell in love with him,” she stated.
Saved by Urgent Dogs of Miami, Axelson rescued him from doable euthanasia and previous abuse.
“He was covered with wounds and bites, and he still has scars that you can see — but he healed pretty quickly,” she stated.
Once used as bait for canine fights, Axelson nursed her child again to well being and her entire household lathered on the love.
But this massive boy had already undergone three surgical procedures on account of an obstruction and cancerous tumors earlier than a regarding illness hit this summer time.
An unknown limp and pale gums alerted his canine mother that one thing was fallacious, and she or he rushed him to an emergency vet clinic.
“He was there for five days,” Axelson stated. “He had two blood transfusions — they ran every single test on him possible, trying to figure out what’s going on with him.”
X-rays confirmed he had an enlarged spleen. A biopsy was taken and Kilo’s pink blood cells had been tanking and his platelets depend was low too.
Numerous veterinarians have been consulted, however nobody is aware of what’s fallacious with him.
“Bills, bills, bills,” Donna Axelson stated.
The Axelson’s say they’ve paid $18,000 to this point and counting.
Four blood transfusions later, there has nonetheless been no treatment and there are extra questions than solutions.
“Figure out why is he losing blood, where is it going, how do we fix it?” Donna Axelson stated.
The household is already struggling with huge payments as Kilo goes to the vet each different day, however the thriller continues: What is fallacious with this man and the way do they get him wholesome?
That’s the place I’m hoping you are available in — our viewers, veterinarians, medical doctors, nurses — possibly you understand one thing about how we are able to get this man again to feeling good.
“It’s not his time and I will move this entire earth and the galaxy to get an answer and get him better,” Kyra Axelson stated. “Like I said, he’s my whole heart and soul. I even have him tattooed on me.”
“He’s a good boy and he’s worth fighting for, and that’s what we’re doing,” Donna Axelson added.
If you could have any data that may assist Kilo, please electronic mail Local 10 animal advocate Jacey Birch at [email protected], and she or he’ll go it alongside to Kilo’s household.
A GoFundMe page has been created to help with Kilo’s medical bills.
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