'It Crushes You When They Go': Handler Remembers Big-Hearted Military Working Dog
5 Aug 2021
Stars and Stripes | By Karin Zeitvogel
She worked hard, played hard and devoted her entire life to the U.S. military.
And Bora, a military working dog from Spangdahlem Air Base, "literally and figuratively had the biggest heart," her former handler said days after the German shepherd died at age 12.
Bora's heart was three to four times larger than a normal German shepherd's, said Staff Sgt. Adrienne Dunham, who worked with Bora for 18 months starting in 2016 and adopted her when she was medically retired last year.
Veterinarians had discovered during a pre-deployment checkup that Bora had a heart defect, Dunham said.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/05/it-crushes-you-when-they-go-handler-remembers-big-hearted-military-working-dog.html
