Palm Bay Veterinarians Team Up For Homeless Veterans Dog

Brevard veterinarians unite to help a veteran's dog
FLORIDA TODAY
R. Norman Moody
March 16, 2015

Benson, 59, who served in the U.S. Air Force between 1973 to 1976, lives in a wooded camp in Melbourne has been homeless for decades. He adopted Rosie about five years ago.

PALM BAY – Rosie has been a companion, a protector and a therapy dog of sorts to her homeless military veteran owner, Bob Benson.

Now that Rosie, the five-year-old Labrador mix, needs surgery to correct a painful leg injury, five veterinarians, a veterinary laboratory and an animal hospital have come together to provide treatment, surgery and therapy – free of charge.

Benson rubbed the side of Rosie's head as Dr. Jeff Christiansen, the veterinary surgeon doing the surgery on the dog's right back leg, prepared the dog for the procedure.
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