Your parents should have understood the expenses with owning a pet, especially a poorly bred one. It's unfair of them to put this burden on you.
You can attempt to find a creative attorney to sue the original breeder. Most places have laws against knowingly selling sick animals - if you can prove the breeder knew the dog had problems, or was genetically predisposed to this problem, you may be able to recover some funds. It would be groundbreaking and new law, but a hungry animal welfare lawyer may be willing to give it a shot, pro bono.
As far as fundraising, it will be difficult. There's no sob story and no rescue angle.
Gofundme is the fundraising website for donations, not kickstarter.
There was just a lovely article on a women in the Midwest who is making custom order "sock dogs" to look like individual pets. She charges $95 each and she is booking now for June orders. If you have an artistic talent, silly portraits are great money makers if you get in the right niche market.
Otherwise, it's on your parents to come up with the money for surgery. This is the responsibility they took on when they took ownership of the dog.
Good Luck
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I need to raise quite a large sum of money, up to 12k or little as 4k. Either way, several thousand so my heeler can have surgery to fix her luxating patellas in both her legs.
I'm at a loss. I could say I have time. Around a year at the longest but I'd like to have it done & fully healed before I leave her with my mum for college.
We have to assume only I will be raising the money so something I could do alone whould be excellent. Already working on a booster T-shirt to sell. Kickstarter wont do since I have to have a product (is there a loophole if I made a blog about her now, during, and after surgery?)
