Park City, Utah – A K9 with the Park City Police Department is recovering from severe injuries sustained when he jumped from a freeway overpass while assisting in a suspicious package investigation near the Highway 40/I-80 interchange. According to the police department, K9 Bruno Life Flight transported him to an emergency veterinary hospital in Salt Lake City for treatment.
On Wednesday, the agency said Bruno survived the impact, but sustained serious injuries, including two broken legs and a fractured jaw. The department said:
We are happy to share that he is in good spirits and is scheduled to undergo surgery this afternoon to repair his broken leg.
Despite the seriousness of his injuries, Bruno continues to show us just how tough he is. We know he has a long road to recovery ahead of him, but we are encouraged by his condition and the care he is receiving, special thanks to Bruno’s care team at MedVet.
The department has not provided a post-surgical update for K9 Bruno.
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We have such great smart dogs but being used as a tool for the police…. they suffer for doing a good job
Dog shouldn’t be doing this work in the first place. You put on your little cop costume and take the risks yourself. The idiot watching him should have had him leashed up. Better if the idiot would have gone over.
Hard to read about a dog going off an overpass mid-call like that. That interchange is no place to be working near the edge, and I hope Bruno comes through it.
My own week was much duller — an HR form that had to come back as a scanned document, except all I had was the digital PDF they’d emailed me in the first place. I ran it through LensUp so it came out looking printed and scanned, slight tilt and all, since the office clearly wanted to see paper. It processes in the browser tab and the file never leaves my laptop, which matters to me when my ID number is sitting on page two. Only gripe is that the compression aims at the size you pick and can land a bit over, so I check the file before I hit submit.
Bruno, you gave way more than you’ve received in return. Dogs are so much greater than people.
HOW DID THIS TRAUMATIC, SERIOUS INCIDENT ACTUALLY HAPPEN TO THIS POOR BEAUTIFUL DOG??????
WHERE WAS HIS HANDLER????
WHY WEREN’T THEY WATCHING????
SO MANY QUESTIONS YET ‘NO’ ANSWERS!!!!
SOMEONE MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR SUCH A HEINOUS INCIDENT THAT NEARLY KILLED THIS BEAUTIFUL INTELLIGENT DOG??????
Ban K9 and all “service dogs”. In disaster rescues situations, these service dogs are risking their own life’s to rescue others. Now with the new technology, a detecting tool can be easily used by people to locate or detect life. Leave these poor dogs at safe place.
EXACTLY!!! THOSE ANIMALS DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE IN WHETHER TO DO THESE THINGS OR NOT. HUMANS HAVE THAT OPTION!!
Ban K9 and all “service dogs”. In disaster rescues situations, these service dogs are risking their own life’s to rescue others. Now with the new technology, a detecting tool can be easily used by people to locate or detect life. Leave these poor dogs at safe place.
I agree with the others who said “ban all police dogs”. Stop this horrible abuse.
tortured by the police, Ban all police dogs Police should work themselves
And yet the pubIic is stiII IargeIy ignorant of the fact that K9s are reguIarIy abused, and even tortured, by their own handIers (standard protocoI, taught and required), that in private they are not caIIed “partners” (that’s just for pubIic relations), but are referred to as “tooIs,”
NOR does the pubIic have a cIue that FAR more of these dogs are kiIIed by their handIers (“training: injuries, heat prostration, starvation, for a few exampIes) than by any suspects.
Why is this ignorance stiII possible? Because despite whistIebIowers, video, and some very revealing articIes, the mainstream media stiII either ignores it or minimizes it with the big Iie, that it’s one bad appIe, rather than institutionalized crueIty.
I am so sad to hear that they are treated like that in reality, Sue. One would hope true professionals would be better than that. 😮💨 Thank you for putting the real truth out there as hopefully some day these dogs will be treated with the respect they deserve by their handlers and not how they are currently being treated by cruel monsters in uniform! 😡
I am so sad to hear that they are treated like that in reality, Sue. One would hope true professionals would be better than that. 😮💨 Thank you for putting the real truth out there as hopefully some day these dogs will be treated with the respect they deserve by their handlers and not how they are currently being treated by cruel monsters in uniform! 😡
I am so sad to hear that they are treated like that in reality, Sue. One would hope true professionals would be better than that. 😮💨 Thank you for putting the real truth out there as hopefully some day these dogs will be treated with the respect they deserve by their handlers and not how they are currently being treated by cruel monsters in uniform! 😡
I am so sad to hear that they are treated like that in reality, Sue. One would hope true professionals would be better than that. 😮💨 Thank you for putting the real truth out there as hopefully some day these dogs will be treated with the respect they deserve by their handlers and not how they are currently being treated by cruel monsters in uniform! 😡
Sure, hope the canine recovers… But he will never be able to do the work he was doing. The handler should not have lost control of him, but that’s just my opinion specially on a dangerous overpass.!
Hugs and love sent to Bruno!!