11/11/2025
We have a situation that we desperately need your help with TODAY! Panko needs to go to MedVet in Columbus, Ohio and he has to be there tomorrow morning at 9am.
MedVet is a specialty veterinary hospital and they have different vets with different specialties at different locations, etc. that we do not have locally and Panko has exhausted all options locally unfortunately.
I’m going to give you the very short version of what is going on with him because the long version is so very long. On 8/30 our staff noticed Panko had one paw that he didn’t want to put weight on and it was swollen and appeared infected. We immediately moved him to an inside kennel and cleaned his paw up, washed it with medicated spray, etc. and immediately made him a vet appointment. Unfortunately by that appointment just several days later on 9/11, it was now effecting all four paws.
Our vet hoped that it was just really bad allergies and a really bad infection that had spread, but after courses of antibiotics, pain meds, medicated creams and soaks, supplements, etc. we had all started looking into different autoimmune diseases that could be causing his issues and our vet found one that sounds like it very well could be what is causing this. However, because this specific autoimmune disease has no cure or real treatment…we made an appointment to euthanize Panko. This is the part where I NEED you to stay with me.
We couldn’t go through with it. We’ve went back and forth on trying to make decisions about Panko’s quality of life and what to do for him for the last month and the reason we chose to not go through with euthanizing is because he is SO happy and healthy all around literally other than his paws. (Any rude commenters will be blocked immediately, as you have no idea what hell we have been going through trying to save this boy and figure out something for him.)
We have him on pain meds, steroids, and more to try to keep him as absolutely comfy as possible while we try to give him the best outcome but his paws do occasionally peel and bleed, he hates walking on anything except smooth concrete and grass. We KNOW it has to hurt. But all he wants to do is sit in our laps and play with his toys and lay on his bed and get love from his favorite people at PPR.
So we asked if taking him to OSU veterinary hospital or Medvet might be an option to confirm/deny the autoimmune diagnosis, and to see if maybe they have a potential treatment or some way to help him have the best quality of life that he can have and our vet staff said it would be worth a try. Once Medvet saw the pictures, they wanted to see him ASAP at their Columbus location where they have the specialty doctors that he needs. The autoimmune disease we think it may be causes the nails to basically rot and be pushed out and twist from the inside. What you see on the bottom of his paws are his paw pads that are severely deformed from this as well. The undated photos are from his last vet visit on 10/30. And yes, we cut his nails as much as he will allow but they push back out within a few days and he obviously doesnt love for us to touch them.
We don’t know that we can save him, but we have to try and we understand if you don’t want to donate towards a dog that may not have the best outcome - but we are dedicated to doing everything we can for him. He is only roughly 3 years old, he is adoptable, he is loving, he is sweet, he is a giant baby. He was abandoned at the dog park in Huntington when he was only 8-9 months old and has been with us ever since and has never had a single medical issue while he’s been with us until this started.
We understand that everyone is struggling right now, we know it’s right before the holidays…but we desperately need your help to figure out if we can help this sweet boy. We leave at 5am tomorrow morning for Columbus and we need all of the donations that we can get to help cover this expensive appointment and travel if you can spare a few dollars.
Please consider donating to help Panko if you can! I am including the photos of his paws with the dates so you can also see how they have progressed.
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