Promises to Keep
Some stories just break your heart.
We received a call last May from a police officer who'd been injured in the line of duty. Now in a wheelchair, he was scheduled to go to Texas for major surgery, but his beloved Labrador -- a three-year-old purebred called Jasmine -- needed to be rehomed. He broke down several times describing the bond between Jasmine and himself. Jasmine was his “world,” he said. He loved her more than life itself.
We asked if could hold Jasmine and give her back when his health improved, but the man said it was unlikely. He was not confident he'd get better. His neck had been broken when his patrol car crashed into a tree while in pursuit of a drunk driver during a storm. His doctors had told him that without the surgery, he would not survive. And even then, he said, the surgery was risky and they were not optimistic about the outcome.
But his biggest fear, he said, wasn’t for himself – it was for Jasmine. He would not have peace until he knew that Jasmine would have a new life with a loving family.
Jasmine went into foster with Donna Seiber on May 28th. We are honoring our promise to a police officer who lost so much in the line of duty.
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