Rescue animals offer comfort to children with disabilities

Leander, Texas – Some superheroes need a partner. For 5-year-old Harper, it’s Halo, a fluffy white dog with one leg and an unlimited amount of love.

“He has lucky fins like me,” Harper said of Halo’s superpower. Harper’s superpower is his hand that was formed differently. She calls him her lucky fin.

Each week, Harper visits a rescue animal sanctuary outside of Austin to check on his fellow superheroes.

“Not only do I have four wheelchair dogs, but also a wheelchair cow and a wheelchair lamb,” said Jamie Wallace Griner, who cares for more than 160 disabled animals left at the door. of death.

The sanctuary, Safe in Austin, combines animals with children who know why they are going through it.

“There’s like 90%, you know, stress and hard and hard and muddy and poop and then there’s that 10% that’s pure magic,” Griner said.

When Harper and Halo reunite, Harper’s mother, Celine Wulms, said it’s magical.

“I think Harper had a lot of confidence in coming here, seeing how resilient these animals are,” Wulms said.

Sometimes unconditional love comes from rescue animals rescuing children.

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