Please let's make a miracle for Elisabeth!

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Surgery funds for puppy Elisabeth

Whakatane, Bay Of Plenty

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PLEASE HELP ELISABETH! 🥹 💔

We are so, so heartbroken: our sweet Elisabeth (Bessie) is in severe pain and urgently needs surgery!

Some of you may remember this sweet bunch of puppy rolls - we have been incredibly proud of her: from a neonatal in the pound after being dumped like garbage, to blossoming into a cherished family member and the emotional support for a small boy who needs her!

Now misfortune struck the second time into her young life: she has bilateral hip dysplasia, at not even a year old! Euthanasia is the only option without a procedure costing over $6,000, and she doesn't deserve that! She is not even one year old yet! We are devastated, and this is beyond unfair for her and for her little human who is doing so well since he met her!

The family cannot manage this massive, unexpected expense, nor can we, despite sooo wishing we could!! Please let's make a miracle for Elisabeth! She needs all the support she can get! The vet estimation is attached below, as well as the detailed procedure presented by the vet

About us

Jack Dog Center Ltd. (JDC Rescue) is a Registered Charity (CC63940. All our rescue dogs come from the pound or urgent situations. We manage rescue on-site using our leased facilities, without foster homes, paid staff or government funding.

Use of funds

hip dysplasia surgery

No words... 23 October 2026

Heartbroken... once again!!!!

We’ve just learned today that Elisabeth is already developing arthritis!!

We have been through this with Arabella, and we so hoped this will never happen again!!!! Not to our puppies! Not Elisabeth!!!

IT IS JUST SO UNFAIR: this awesome pup, with the most beautiful temperament, dumped in Kawerau then saved then in a beautiful family, finally LOVED, finally home, just to be in this situation at not even one year old!!! And it is congenital! It is the result of random, untested parents combination in an unwanted, dumped litter of neonatals.

THIS is what accidental breeding does! Breaking her life, our hearts, and the hearts of her family!

Elisabeth deserved to live - and, from conception, she had absolutely no chance to a life made of anything else but pain!!

We can't do this to her. As much as we would do anything to help, that anything is not at the expense of her quality of life.... 🥹 A pup should grow up to be a dog: run, play, chase butterflies! And at this point no one, absolutely no one can give her that anymore.We still had two more weeks to raise funds... her little body did not wait!

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