when Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson heard a dog named after him needed surgery, he jumped in to help.
The
43-year-old actor donated $1,500 towards vital heart operation for the
dog he had never met before, just because he had 'a cool name.'
'Stay strong lil' Rock!' he wrote on the page after donating. 'Got your back.'
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Rock solid guy: Dwayne Johnson donated $1,500 to save surgery-needing puppy named after him
According to KTLA, the four-month-old cockapoo had been dumped at an LA shelter with a metal wire wrapped around his mouth.
After
using bolt cutters to remove it and sewing him up with 17-stitches,
vets discovered the animal's problems didn't end there. He had a grade 5
heart murmer - six being the worst possible - and was at severe risk of
a fatal heart attack.
That's when Save SPOT set up a GoFundMe for the pup, seeking $5,000, and naming him after the Furious 7 actor.
Rock bottom: The four-month-old cockapoo was dumped at an LA shelter with a metal wire wrapped around his mouth
Networking: And when Buffy star Michelle Trachtenberg tagged the real Rock on Twitter, he immediately stepped in to help
And when Buffy star Michelle Trachtenberg tagged the real Rock on Twitter, he immediately stepped in to help.
'Stay
strong lil' Rock! Let's get you taken care of, healed up and feeling
better for Christmas,' he wrote on the page after donating. 'Plus you
have a VERY cool name to uphold;). Got your back.'
He also offered a different kind of 'help' to whoever was responsible for the puppy's injuries.
Spread the love: Thanks to the
publicity, mini Rock has over $6,000 pledged to him - with the charity
promising to share any excess money raised with the 60 other dogs it
cares for with less cool names
Pledge: The actor never even met the dog, but was happy to help
Can you smell what the Rock is cooking? The People's Champion also offered to 'help' the person to injured the dog
'Lil' guy was found w/ a wire on his jaw!? Love to find the person who did that. Happy to help,' he tweeted.
Thanks
to the publicity, mini Rock has over $6,000 pledged to him - with the
charity promising to share any excess money raised with the 60 other
dogs it cares for with less cool names.
'Knowing
that "the Rock" has got Dwayne the puppy's back, we are confident he
will be a fighter and make it through this,' they said
Heartbroken: Johnson's heart was no
doubt softened even further having lost his own puppy Brutus as recently
as September, after he ate poisonous mushrooms
Dog gone: Just weeks earlier, he was
barely saved the pup from drowning after he jumped straight into the
pool after his adoption and sank 'like a brick'
Johnson's heart was no doubt softened even further having lost his own puppy as recently as September.
Just
weeks after adopting a pair of French bulldog pups named Brutus and
Hobbs, he was forced to put the former to sleep after he ate poisonous
mushrooms.
Dwayne
had revealed the weekend he adopted him he had to save him from
drowning after both dogs immediately jumped in his pool, but Brutus sank
head first 'like a brick' to the bottom.
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