For just a couple minutes, let’s all suspend our cynicism here and rally together in support of a little pug puppy named Apple. Poor little Apple jumped off of a high sofa and fractured her dog elbow. She found her way to the Hug A Pug AZ Rescue and Adoption Group after her original owners had to give her up because they couldn’t afford the surgery to get her fixed up.

“She is in pain and we want to get the surgery as soon as possible,” Peggy Gal of Hug A Pug AZ said. “In addition to the surgery on her elbow she needs to be spayed and microchipped before she has a chance at adoption and a full, pain free life.”

The rescue group has taken to a crowdfunding campaign to raise $2,000 for Apple’s puppy surgery. You might be thinking, “Why should I care about this tiny baby dog with a broken elbow?” Well, here’s some reasons:

1) Have you looked at that dog’s smushed up little face? Come on.
2) It’s Friday, which means it’s payday and you probably already paid rent last week. You know you have a few bucks to spare.
3) If my dog got hurt, I’d hope people would help and if your dog got hurt, I definitely would help. That’s what people do in a community: they help each other—especially when the one that needs help is a helpless puppy named Apple with a broken leg. Without upholding these basic tenets of community and human decency, we’d all be living in anarchy.

Cough up $10 or so for this dog via Fundly and be a better person for it.

This article appears in Feb 5-11, 2015.

6 replies on “Give This Pug Puppy with a Broken Elbow All of Your Money Already”

  2. Irresponsible pet owners. If your dog hurt itself, heather, I’d hope that you had cared about it when it was healthy enough to save up a little money for the unexpected. Sorry for the dog, but most things die horrible deaths at the mouth or claw of another animal. Those owners should be ashamed of themselves. I don’t like animals very much but I completely dislike animal cruelty, especially from negligent incapable owners.

  3. That’s a pretty hefty judgment on your part there, not to be a dick but. That’s a TOTAL dick comment. Some of us wouldn’t be able to come up with that money for ourselves either. Having been a pet owner my whole life until this last couple years, I would only donate for this surgery if the owners who didn’t have the money were going to be able to keep the dog. I think this situation is just awful.

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