Bruno’s Rescue Story by Lisa Jetland Alexander F 38 THE NEW BARKER


or the first ten years of his life, Bruno belonged somewhere. I’m not sure what those circumstances were or how he went from belongingness to


stray, but he did. He must have been on his own for a long time. Either that or he was neglect- ed and dumped. No pup looks the way he did without a very sorry backstory. We didn’t rescue Bruno, not then.


Someone else with a heart for dogs down on their luck took him in. She healed his body and got his trust back and so the time came to find him a home. Only that first one didn’t work out, nor did the second. And that is when Bruno came to us. We figured he just needed a little more time to heal mentally and the farm would give him the space to do that. I can only imagine what that time of


transition was like for Bruno. We know him so well now. We know that beneath his natural air of reserve is the heart of a steadfast loyalist. But we were just sorting him out then, and he us. We didn’t have a fixed time for that to happen, but as fate would have it, we were given one. Shortly after Bruno came to us, he was diag- nosed as heartworm positive and his best chance of cure, given the grade of his diagnosis was the “high kill” method. That meant six months of intense treatment and watchful care. Anyone who has been through that method


of heartworm treatment with a dog will tell you what I will tell you right now — it is not for sissies. It is a near death experience for the dog and a full-time caretaking role for the human. For six months. We hardly knew Bruno, but we were committed to seeing him through this.


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