Along the coastline in northeastern Australia, many flying foxes are infected with a ________ disease. That’s where Pam Tully comes in.

Many ________ flying foxes fall from the trees and die. Pam walks miles in the rainforest, ________ babies still clinging (依偎) to their dying mothers. It’s very ________ work. Pam relies on a few volunteers to help rescue the flying foxes during the migration season. Canace came from America to lend a hand to her aunt Pam, and to ________ some kind of purpose in life after her mother passed away.

Pam taught Canace to ________ the baby flying foxes, keep them wrapped in nappies, nurse them back to health and take them back into the ________ to rejoin their families.

Day after day, Pam led Canace ________ the rainforest, collecting babies and bringing them back to the shed where they were ________ by an animal doctor, fed every two hours by bottle and even taught to fly. Each flying fox released back into the wild was a ________ . And each time one ________ away, the loss Canace felt seemed just a little bit less.

We never ________ get over the loss of a loved one, but when we take care of a ________ creature, or ________ to somebody else who is hurting, the wound ________ just a little bit, and the hurt becomes a memory of being loved.

A 100-pound dog has been given a second life. His caretakers came up with a(n) _________ idea for putting him on the road to _________. Ken, the dog, is just one of the “_________” at the Odd Man Inn Animal Rescue in Washington, home to a number of _________, like cats and chickens.

After Ken was _________ to the animal home from a farm, a _________ on his right leg made him unable to _________. Although his caretakers managed to get his _________ taken care of by a vet, they quickly realized how difficult it was to turn the dog over to _________ his bandages.

Not only that, the vet said the dog needed to lose __________ if he wanted to walk on his right leg again. Rather than __________ the dog, the caretakers used a Walking Wheels wheelchair to help Ken.

The caretakers fitted the wheelchair with a sling (悬带)to __________ Ken’s weight while he got his daily exercise. This has also allowed his caretakers to change his bandages without __________.

Since Ken began using the wheelchair for his daily __________ therapy (治疗) sessions last week, he has slowly regained his ability to walk __________, making his caretakers excited.

We found him a few weeks ago, walking along the road in the countryside. He was jumping on cars, and we thought maybe his family was camping somewhere nearby, ________ we passed him by. A few hours later, on our ________ trip, he was still in the same place, again, trying to get people to ________ for him. When he saw us, he laid down in the middle of the road, so we were unable to ________ him.

We stopped the car and looked around for a few minutes, trying to find his owner. But we ________ . Then we took a good look at the dog. He had no collar (项圈) and he was really ________ . We decided he was abandoned.

My husband said, “ ________ he doesn’t bite me when I try to pick him up to put him in the car, then we have a new dog.” The dog ________ joined us with no fight at all. He kept sticking his head between the two front seats and ________ us for picking him up.

The dog must have been ________ on the road for some time. He was so thin. So, we ________ him a lot over the next two weeks and he gained over twenty pounds. We took him to the doctor for ________ , who said the dog appears to be in good health. The vet (兽医) ________ the dog is about two or three years of age, from the condition of his teeth.

We do ________ this dog. He has been mistreated and yet, he still is so very sweet. He had no manners, but he is a ________ learner. He no longer tries to get on the bed, but he does like sitting in chairs. Since then, he has become a member of our family.