Having a dog has been shown to improve the quality of life for senior citizens. But what happens as the senior ages and it becomes___________to care for their pet?

Carrie Broecker learned about this___________, while helping to care for an elderly woman’s dog. Broecker and the woman, Alice, had met five years earlier when Alice developed a serious lung disease. She_________reached out to Broecker for helping take care of her dog, Savannah, while she was _________.When Alice was later moved to the nursing home, Broecker would bring the dog to visit. During Alice’s final days, her biggest _________was what would happen to her dog after she died. “I told her I would make sure that Savannah would find a good home.” Broecker said, “Alice was so_________that I could make that _________.”

After that, Broecker came up with an idea that she could take in dogs from senior citizens who were _________.In 2009, Peace of Mind Dog Rescue was born. Many times, family members contact the organization and _________their aging family member’s dog.__________, a senior doesn’t need to give up their dog. They just need some __________.Volunteers in the organization can go to the senior’s house to walk their dog.

“We can maintain that human-animal tie and make this person’s life better and brighter through our__________.” Broecker said. The organization also helps__________dogs find stable homes where they can get more attention they need. “We don’t want the elderly to be __________, whether they are human beings or animals. We really want to care for all of __________.”

“You don’t want that one,” the shelter volunteer said. “He’s broken.”

Had I heard her correctly? I looked down at the _________ cat sitting on my foot. The volunteer said the cat had been moving around since birth and that he didn’t like anyone. “He seems _________, but I still want to adopt (领养) him,” I said. “Because he needs a home, and because I’m _________ too.”

It was in 2021. I’d been in a _________ for a while. I had what the professionals called development trauma (精神创伤), which caused me to have serious attachment issues. But recently my doctor _________ I get an animal companion. He said it would be good for me and could help me form _________ with people.

It took me a week to _________ a name for him. I finally settled on Mr Bo, after the song about a homeless man who, even after great _________ , remained happy. At home I watched as the dark little thing smelled every corner of the house. _________, his curiosity satisfied, he settled in my lap. By the time a year passed, we’d developed a __________. When I woke up in the morning, Bo would demand that I hold him, so he could __________ my face. Then it was breakfast for us both before I __________ to work. When I got home in the evenings, Bo would make a crying sound until I __________ him up.

Bo was great __________. He’d made my life better. __________ having been abandoned (遗弃), he wasn’t afraid to love and be loved.

One spring morning many years ago. I had been exploring for gold along Coho Creek on southeastern Alaska when I spotted a huge gray wolf no more than 20 paces away-- _________ in a trap. Confused and frightened at my approach, the wolf _________ straining(用力拉)at the trap chain. Then I notice it was a female. Somewhere there might be hungry little wolves waiting for their _________ From her appearance, I _________ that she had been trapped only a few days. That meant her babies were probably still _________, surely no more than a few miles away. But I suspected that if I tried to free the wolf, she would turn _________ and try to tear me to pieces. So I decided to _________ her babies instead. After several moments, I finally _________ the little wolves. I began imitating the sound of a mother wolf _________ her young. No response. A few moments later, after I tried another call, four tiny wolves __________. They couldn’t have been more than a few weeks old. I __________ my hands, and they tentatively(试探性地)sucked my __________. Then, one by one. I placed them in a bag and headed __________. When the mother wolf spotted me, she stood straight. When I __________ the tiny wolves, they raced to their mother and without __________,they were slurping(吸食)at her belly.

I realized that I must find her something to __________.Therefore, I hiked toward Coho Creek and spotted the leg of a dead deer sticking out of a snowbank. I __________ a leg and returned to the wolf. If I could only win her confidence, I thought, it was her only hope of being __________. Over the next few days. I delivered her dinner and played with her babies to win the wolf’s __________. Finally, I saw a slight wagging of her tail. I moved within the length of her chain. applied pressure and __________ the trap. The wolf pulled free.