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Help K-9 Joker

First Responders

Catastrophic Loss

North Carolina

Created September 17th, 2022

We are a small police department in Oakboro,NC and started our first ever K-9 unit almost 2 years ago. We have two dual purpose K-9’s (K-9 Joker & K-9 Bane), this became the first unit in the towns 106 year history. A few weeks ago during training, K-9 Joker became unsteady on his back legs, fell over and had problems walking. K-9 Joker was taken to the vet twice and we were referred to a specialist. He has undergone some testing and we are still awaiting results for one of them. If the second test comes back negative, we have to return for further evaluation and testing.

These medical expenses are adding up for our town, as our K-9 Unit is mainly funded through donations. We have depleted our funds and most of the reserve we had for the year. With the possibility of further medical expenses for K-9 Joker and our K-9 Unit, I was told to give this a try.

Any funds raised will go solely to K-9 Joker and his medical needs!

K-9 Joker and K-9 Bane can be found at facebook.com

@opdk9_joker and @opdk9_bane on Instagram or https://www.tiktok.com/@k9_jokerbaneopd?_t=8VloTdcYmeE&_r=1

Updates

September 25th, 2022

Jason Eschert, Organizer

We hit our initial $5000 match goal! Huge thank you to all of you!

September 22nd, 2022

Jason Eschert, Organizer

K-9 Joker had a negative culture test and will be proceeding with an MRI test next Wednesday. This will hopefully give us some answers. He also started a second medication.