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Jones veteran whose dog was missing receives miracle just in time for Christmas
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An Army vet who was so heartsick over his missing dog that he didn’t eat for three days has been reunited with the pup in what’s being called a “Christmas miracle.”
Geoff Hoffman, a Jones, Okla.-based vet, discovered that his 3-year-old pit bull, Bridget, was missing after his home was burglarized on Dec. 20. That night, Hoffman penned a passionate plea to his Facebook followers to help him find the dog who he adopted two years ago.
Geoff Hoffman was reunited with his dog Bridget after she went missing for four days. (Photo: Bring Bridget Back/Facebook)
“She is loved beyond definition,” he captioned Facebook photos of the grey-and-white dog wearing a Little Red Riding Hood costume and cruising in a Target shopping cart. “She is my ever-adventurous sidekick and my eternal source of joy. She is missed beyond my ability to articulate.”
**Bridget was found! Go to #BringBridgetBack for all the details!**Hello friends, today 12/20/17 my house was broken…
“I came home from work and noticed my gate and front door were open,” Hoffman, 38, tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “My TV had been moved from the wall but nothing was taken, except Bridget. She comes everywhere with me, so it’s possible someone saw her and followed me home.”
After filing a police report, Hoffman, who served with the Special Ops Forces in Afghanistan for eight years went into military mode. “Sergeant Hoffman was back,” he says. “I was on a mission and told myself I would stop searching for Bridget under two conditions: She returned home or I knew with certainty that she was dead.”
Geoff Hoffman and his dog Bridget, who was found after a four-day search, are best friends. (Photo: Bring Bridget Back/Facebook)
During the four days Bridget went missing, Hoffman reached out to his local police and fire departments, along with City Hall, asking officials to share his story. He printed more than 100 cards featuring Bridget’s photo and advertising a “large reward” for her return and registered with missing dog websites. Hoffman also created a Facebook group with hundreds of followers, called Bring Bridget Back, in the hopes of spreading awareness for his search.
“I got messages from people in the Bahamas and England,” says Hoffman. “When I dropped off her photo at the Humane Society, a volunteer gasped and said, ‘Is this Bridget?’ The support was overwhelming.”
During Bridget’s absence, Hoffman said he was too busy and anxious to eat and his girlfriend barely slept. “Since she was awake, she would get in her car and drive all night looking for Bridget.”
Today I made over 100 cards to hand out to anyone I encounter; waiters, cashiers, random people on the street. Adorable picture on the front, stats on the back. #BringBridgetBack
On the morning of Christmas Eve, the search paid off. “My girlfriend was driving down a rural road, in below-freezing temperatures, a few miles from my house, when she saw Bridget and slammed on her brakes,” says Hoffman. “She was lying by the side of the road but when she saw my girlfriend, she started wagging her tail.”
Hoffman sped to the 24-hour vet clinic where Bridget was being examined. “I was hoping I wouldn’t get a speeding ticket,” he says.
While the dog was generally unharmed, she hadn’t eaten for days, she was dehydrated, and had blood in her stool, along with lacerations on her left leg, “It made me wonder whether someone stole her for dog fighting and either cut or tried to starve her to make her aggressive,” says Hoffman. “Bridget was also found wearing her distinctive pink, floral collar, and her leash, and my phone number was scratched off her tag — maybe the thief got spooked by all the media attention and dumped her on a random road.”
To pay for Bridget’s medical expenses, which entails ongoing rounds of antibiotics, the cost of office visits and more, a friend of Hoffman’s created a Go Fund Me account, which topped its $2,300 goal by $85 at the time of this writing. And Hoffman’s relieved followers have called the reunion a Christmas miracle and a holiday blessing.
Hoffman will use his experience to help other people find their missing pets, by maintaining Bridget’s Facebook page and sharing his search strategies, writing on his Facebook page, “I am overwhelmed with gratitude.”
He tells Yahoo Lifestyle, “The support I’ve gotten has been mindblowing.”
file under: Ronnie and Coco approved Pit Bull story.
Dave Ramsey: Let him get the facts before giving advice and an attitude adjustment might be in order, as well. Usually admire your tips on budgeting but one wonders why you instructed the young man last evening not to persue a career in Mechanical Engineering. I do believe this is one field where more folks are needed and there are plenty of jobs available with a four year degree. You indicated what kind of job would he actually do after he had said his dad was also in mechanical engineering. I wonder if his dad could have told him what kind of jobs were available. While it is common these days to say it might be better to go for a technical job...you suggested car mechanic...instead of going for a degree that does not have jobs readily available one would think he could easily pay off a student loan with this kind of career. An education is so important to some people one would have to ask if you are just at a deficit in your vision or maybe sour grapes were involved. Perhaps you should check out more facts prior to advising in this particular field. Your attitude towards the young man had a tone that was so offensive I had to look for other listening.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Less than an hour after U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Palestinians protested by turning off the lights on the Christmas tree outside Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
It was a timely reminder that while headlines focused on Islamist calls for uprisings and Trump's references to Jewish historical ties, the president's words also stirred deep feelings among the Palestinians' small Christian community.
Coming out of the Sunday service in his Assyrian Catholic church in Jerusalem, Fredrick Hazo accused Trump of "dragging all the world into trouble", and called on the U.S. leader to reverse his decision.
"We are united - Christians, Muslims, we are one," said the 59-year-old Palestinian musician, standing in an alley in the heart of the Old City, surrounded by shops selling religious trinkets.
He was frustrated by the politics, but confident the delicate balance the three faiths kept in the holy city would prevail. "In this sacred place, God is protecting us all. We are guarded by his angels in Jerusalem," Hazo added.
Christians make up around just one percent of the Palestinian population in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem - though they punch above their weight in local and national politics.
Back in July, Hazo protested alongside Muslims against Israel's installation of security scanners at the nearby al-Aqsa mosque - Islam's third holiest site - after two Arab-Israeli gunmen shot dead two Israeli police officers at the site.
It removed the metal detectors after days of bloody clashes, scenes that have not been repeated in the city since Trump's declaration.
UNITED IN PRAYER
The appeals to religious unity inside Jerusalem's walls stand in contrast to the more divided voices outside.
In the hours running up to Trump's statement, Pope Francis called for the status quo in the city to be respected. The Episcopal Church of the United States said Trump's announcement "could have profound ramifications on the peace process and the future of a two-state solution".
But Trump's decision found strong backing from another corner of the Christian community - many among his own country's politically powerful evangelicals who see God's hand in the modern-day return of Jews to a biblical homeland.
Trump convened a circle of evangelical advisers during his presidential bid, and he was the overwhelming favorite of white evangelical voters in last year’s U.S. election.
"We are all bible-believers and we believe that this is the bible-land and that Jerusalem is the ancient capital of Israel back to the days of King David," said Dallas-based Mike Evans, part of an evangelical group that met Trump on Monday.
"So for our president to stand up and declare it makes us extremely proud and honored."
For Palestinian supermarket cashier Mohammed al-Hawa, however, Trump's words and the logic behind them ignored the more complex reality on the ground.
People of all faith in Jerusalem were united in prayer, the 33-year-old said, even if they were divided over politics.
"Christians, Jews and Muslims live in this city together. There is no problem between them. Only the politics. The governments want to make wars," he said.
"This is my city - my blood, my life," added a 70-year-old Palestinian, walking through the pilgrim-packed courtyard of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, revered by Christians as the site of Jesus's tomb.
The church is packed into a small parcel of land that also holds the al-Aqsa compound and Judaism's Western Wall
"I can go to the church, to anywhere in Jerusalem, not Trump nor Netanyahu can stop me," added the man who identified himself only as a "Jerusalemite".
(Additional reporting by Mustafa Abu Ganeyeh in Bethelem; Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Andrew Heavens)
