Jax formerly Jack

This is the story of our beautiful golden retriever we adopted in May, 2018 from Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue.

This is the story of our beautiful golden retriever we adopted in May, 2018 from Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue.

Our Story....

to Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue because of his “roughness.”

He was taken into their program protocol.

and he joined our family.

He was quite the puller on walks as my husband can attest

(and his subsequent hernia surgery).

He was probably the most handsome dog I’ve ever seen...

unless he made this one face.

He was housebroken, had little training and so full of energy...

we decided to fence in our yard to allow him more freedom to roam.

And wow, could he RUN!

Jax received a canine flu vaccine on April 26, 2019. A few days later, he was sick for the first time we had him.
Multiple trips to our family vet, insisting it was a tick infection ($476.61 on services and medications).
He is taken to another vet ($354 which included an X-ray).
We rush him to an emergency hospital in the Lehigh Valley and get scheduled for an ultrasound (6/7/19) then a follow up biopsy (6/10/19) only to discover it’s stage five cancer. And let‘s talk about being put in a tough spot financially. I don’t know how some folks can sleep at night.
Our total bill for the emergency vet was $4705.57 and that included euthanasia and cremation.
Can you see how quickly you can spend $5536.18?
And now we question was the $25.08 vaccine really necessary?

Did it trigger the cancer? We believe so.

Jack was born on 5/27/2017, but we were not provided with his AKC papers, nor do we know if they even exist.
We were surprised to learn from DVGRR he came from Greenfield Puppies, who also mentioned has been linked to puppy mills.
We obviously want to know his breeder because Jax was born with a genetically compromised immune system. (We found this out at the emergency vet).

We want to stop these folks from breeding

so this heartbreak won’t continue.

Our Story....