Rochester veteran calls on community help to raise funds for service dog's ACL surgery

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Rochester veteran calls on community help to raise funds for service dog's ACL surgery
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Robert Podlaski, a veteran who served in the Navy, is asking for the community to help him raise funds to pay for his nine-year-old service dog.

Robert Podlaski , a veteran who served in the Navy, is asking for the community to help him raise funds to pay for his nine-year-old service dog Levi 's ACL surgery, Monday, May 27, 2024.

Levi was initially meant to be a therapy dog for Podlaski's father who had brain cancer and was left paralyzed on his right side following an operation to remove his tumor. Levi was later trained to become Podlaski's service dog, helping him with severe PTSD and service-connected disability.Man sentenced for murdering 20-year-old on Dewey Avenue in Rochester

Podlaski also says he's on a fixed disability income and lives paycheck to paycheck, meaning he can't afford Levi's estimated $7000 Tibial Plateau Levelling Osteotomy surgery. The deposit due at the time of surgery is just over $5200.

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