Help Chief with emergency Vet bill

Hi, my name is Kari. I'm trying to fundraise to cover emergency vet bills incurred this week by our pup Chief.

Usually filled with a zest for life, Chief is a 7 year old English Staffy who is such a valuable member of our little family.

Earlier this week, we noticed he was not quite himself and started to vomit and had bloody diarrhoea, segregating himself to the corner of the yard and looked really uncomfortable and in distress.

We rushed him to the animal emergency and had him admitted for investigations and treatment. After a series of X-rays and Ultrasounds, the vet found a severely inflamed area around Chief's ileocecal Junction (where the small intestine turns into the colon and is coincidentally the most narrow part of that part of the gut) and suspected a foreign body blockage or irregular tissue (read cancer) and asked if we wanted to euthanise him or proceed with exploratory/corrective surgery.

Faced with the unthinkable reality of life without our four legged family member, we decided to try and save him and green lit the surgery. By this point Chief had been in the hospital for 36 hours and the costs were starting to pile up.

The surgery ended up being a success in that the vets found the foreign body causing the blockage and severe irritation to Chief's guts. But he's not out of the woods yet, the next 5 days will be telling and crucial to his recovery and long term survival.

In the meantime, we're faced with a mounting vet bill so close to the start of the year. We aren't the type to ask for help in this way, but the sudden and unexpected nature of this has necessitated turning to the internet for random acts of kindness to help us through this trying time.