Also worried. Does he trust us enough to let us handle him in his pain? Will the strict confinement turn him into a wild man?
SEE ALLTHE REAS ONS Bruno during treatment for heartworm. We got through it but not without some battle scars
and also, naturally, not without becoming deeply bond- ed — he to us and we to him. That should have been the end of Bruno’s rescue story; yet another foster fail at the Alexander home for misfits. But there was something else we learned from that time together and that is how much Bruno thrived on his one-on-one attention. In general, that is something hard to get on a reliable basis around here. I couldn’t shake the feeling that Bruno deserved the chance to have his very own person. We found that person in Pat, a proudly independent
woman in her nineties who had lost her dog to old age and now found that, due to her own age, no one would place a dog with her. Bruno was everything to Pat. She doted on him and was rarely without him. She shaped her life around him. He, in exchange, was her steady wingman. Pat and I kept a regular correspondence where she would wax on about Bruno’s fine attributes and latest adventures. I told her stories from the farm. About a year after placing Bruno, my husband
Gordy and I visited Pat (who lived some distance away). Bruno was happy to see us, but made it perfectly clear where he belonged — or more accurately, who he belonged with. Pat began experiencing a series of health events that
took her away from Bruno. After the first event, she went home and — against doctor’s orders — insisted that Bruno come home to her. One day, while walking Bruno, she fell and that set in motion cascading events that eventually took Pat from us. Her daughter had become quite fond of Bruno, but her life circumstances were not a match. She asked what we had always promised — for Bruno to return. I was sad, so sad, and also delighted and a bit
nervous. We had asked so much of that pup and now here we were, asking again. He was older — thirteen now — a bit grumpier and, as we learned, totally deaf. Would he be okay in the chaos of farm life after his quiet, devoted existence with Pat? Oh, please still like us, Bruno.
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