Successful stories
What happened next, in their own words
Everyone we fund writes us a few lines afterwards. This is where they go.
I had the money for the visit and not for the surgery, and I did not know there was anything in between. My vet's office made the call for me. Two days later they told me it was covered and I honestly did not believe them until I saw the paperwork.
He is eight and he still thinks he is two. I get to keep him because somebody I will never meet decided to help.
She was not mine. I found her and I could not leave her, and then I was standing at the desk realising I had just taken on something I could not pay for.
The clinic sent it in for me. I did not fill in a single form. She has a leg that works and she has a home now, which is mine, because after all that I was not giving her to anybody.
Why the fund exists
The cases we were built for
Before the help arrives, this is what the day looks like.
Hialeah · Blocked bladder
Milo had about a day left
He was four. He kept going to the litter box and coming back out again, crying, and by the afternoon he had stopped eating. His owner drove him in on her lunch break thinking it was a urine infection.
It is one of the most treatable emergencies a cat can have, and one of the fastest to kill them. Untreated, a blocked cat has roughly two days. The estimate was $1,180 and she had $260 in her account until Friday.
She sat in the parking lot for twenty minutes with him crying in the carrier on the passenger seat, phoning everyone she knew for money, before she went back in to ask what euthanasia cost.
Fort Myers · A lump that grew
Sadie was eleven, and the vet said she had years
Her owner is seventy three and lives on disability. Sadie has slept against the back of her legs every night since her husband died.
The lump on Sadie's side went from the size of a pea to the size of a plum across one summer. The vet was optimistic. Remove it now, while it is still small and has not spread, and this dog very likely has years left.
Removal, biopsy and the overnight stay came to $1,430. She asked whether she could pay it in pieces across the year. The practice was kind about it, and the answer was still no. She went home and started saying goodbye to a dog who was not dying.
Broward County · Good Samaritan
The dog was not even his
He found her on the shoulder of the road on his way home from a shift, dragging a back leg, no collar, nothing. He put his work shirt down on the passenger seat and drove her straight to the emergency clinic.
The leg was broken and would mend. She was maybe two years old. At the desk they asked him whether he was the owner, and he said no, he just could not leave her there.
That answer is where these stories usually end. No owner means no insurance, no payment plan and no fund, and he was quietly working out whether he could put $1,460 on a card he had already maxed. He asked if there was anything at all. Somebody handed him a printed sheet.
About these three. They are composites, built from the kind of case Florida veterinarians see every week and from the criteria this fund was written to answer. They are not named clients of C & C Pet Fund. Every family we actually fund writes their own account afterwards, in their own words and with their permission, and those replace these as they arrive.
Every one of those bills was inside what we can give. Every one of those pets was going to be fine.
Were we able to help you?
Your few lines are the most useful thing you can give us
If we funded your pet's care, what you write is what convinces the next family that this is real and worth applying for. It is also the only way somebody who donated gets to see where their money went.
Write it however it comes out. A paragraph is plenty. Tell us your pet's name, what was wrong, and what it meant to have the bill covered. Nothing goes on this website without your permission, and you can ask us to take it down at any time.
