A Couple Found This Poor Injured Dog Limping Down The Road On Christmas Eve So They Stepped In To Save Her

Overland, Missouri. It was a few weeks ago on Christmas Eve when a woman named Anjeliqa was on her way home from work.
As she was driving, she saw a dog limping down the side of the road, and she pulled her car right over to try to help this poor animal.
“What she found was one very scared, very emaciated, and very hurt pooch,” Anjeliqa’s partner Daniel wrote on a GoFundMe page.
“The poor thing didn’t have a collar, and her paw was terribly injured (to the point where it looked crushed), so we took her to an animal hospital.”
“There, we were told that the injury had occurred weeks prior and had partially healed, but x-rays showed that it was so severe that she was actually missing bones in her paw (our best guess is that maybe she got it caught in a trap of some kind and then ripped it out). In any case, the vets were now concerned about infection, and they said the leg would have to go.”
Anjeliqa and Daniel tried so hard to figure out who owned this poor girl, without any luck. She also did not have a microchip, so that made things even harder.
The couple figured that someone most likely dumped this dog out on the cold streets after she got injured.
Anjeliqa and Daniel knew that they could not drop this dog off at a shelter considering all of the traumatic things she had been through.
GoFundMe; pictured above is this sweet dog that Anjeliqa and Daniel rescued off the streets
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“Considering the trauma she’s already been through, starving and hurt and abandoned in the cold, we decided that we didn’t want to put her through the shock of a shelter, and opted to foster her ourselves,” Daniel explained.
“At the time we were very much enjoying Tracey Ullman’s turn on the latest season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, so in the absence of a name, we took to calling the dog City Councilwoman Irma Kostroski (Irma for short).”
Irma seems to be just 10-months-old, and she, unfortunately, had to have her bad leg amputated, which cost around $1,500.
On top of that, Anjeliqa and Daniel paid to have her treated for roundworms and hookworms, which will end up costing them about the same as Irma’s surgery.
Irma’s medical bills are quickly adding up, and although the couple tried to find a local shelter to help them, they were told that they would need to surrender Irma to a shelter in order to get help, which they don’t want to do to her.
“So I am coming to you, friends!” Daniel said. “Please give what you can to help get this very sweet pooch back on her (remaining) feet. Any little bit helps!”
“City Councilwoman Irma Kostroski approves this message.”
If you would like to help Anjeliqa and Daniel with Irma’s medical bills, you can do that here.
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