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Over recent months, the Okanagan Bernese & Meet-Up group has been making waves across the Okanagan.
Featured on KelownaNow a number of times, the group organizes adorable dog walks and raises funds to support local service and therapy dog organizations.
Now, they’re rallying behind one of their own.
Group founders Dalton and Michelle Goodwin’s dog, Maizie, was hit by a truck on Friday, Nov. 9 and suffered severe injuries ranging from a broken pelvis and legs to a dislocated shoulder.
The Goodwins went ahead and paid the $16,700 in vet bills to give the eight-and-a-half month old Bernese mountain dog a new lease on life and the community is now rallying together to help them recoup some of those costs.
A GoFundMe was set up by Carley Tollefson, a fellow Bernese owner, with a goal of covering around half of those costs, $8,000, as Maizie starts her long recovery and rehab.
So far, nearly $5,000 has been raised in just two days, which includes a generous $1,000 from Vancouver Canucks’ defenseman Troy Stecher.
Good luck to the @PentictonVees at the @HC_RBCCup! Phoebe and I are cheering you on. pic.twitter.com/j9sCR1V0SP
— Troy Stecher (@troystecher) May 11, 2017
The Richmond native is the owner of a Bernese mountain dog himself, named Phoebe, who became a bit of a social media star thanks to social media posts from Stecher and teammate Brock Boeser.
You can view the fundraiser and donate yourself, if you’d like, by clicking this link.
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