Efforts are being made to make that buddy a permanent part of Benacci s family.
A fundraising campaign has been launched to raise the money needed for Benacci, a captain in the U.S. Army currently serving in Saudi Arabia, to bring home Tux, a mixed-breed male dog he has been fostering for an animal shelter in Saudi Arabia.
The two have bonded during the several months they have spent together, and Benacci s family and others are now trying to bring Tux back home where he can continue to be happy, safe and so loved, Benacci s wife, Christy Benacci, wrote in a recent Facebook post.
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well, we in 2009 had a couple of life-changing events in our family. our nephew, chris, went to was deployed to afghanistan, and at the same time we lost our little stray dog, and i went on to make a donation and heard about this wonderful military channel documentary that was showing how these dogs were actually protecting the soldiers and giving them a sense of comfort and then also helping them when they came home. i said to my husband we just really have to help these people, these soldiers, and get these dogs home. the financial burden of getting a dog home actually falls onto the soldier. shannon: yeah. trish, i would imagine it s preapretty expensive to transpot them across the world. how does that work? what s the time line for getting the dogs back? it costs about $4,000 to get a dog home, and what our organization does, we actually just do the fund raising for the soldiers, and then we work with other organizations such as the puppy rescue mission who help us
because of the puppy rescue mission, that began on facebook, they were able to raise enough money and, yeah, got 7, the lucky 7, that were able to come to the u.s. and they are still working on getting 5 more dogs, as we speak, rescued out of there. juliet: is target your dog now? target is my dog. and, i have to tell you, absolutely, just amazing feeling, i m running on no sleep, she got in late last night, but, i just i never thought truthfully never thought i would see her again. juliet: apologize for that, target is a world traveller and came in last night and like you said, you are running on no sleep, what are your plans for today, after target gets a little rest? i m going to try and have a calm day and we are trying to get target to integrate with the family pets that we already have, there was an adventure last night and we have a small