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Gay Fans Help Find Lost NYC Dog


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The New Yorker chronicles the remarkable “tail” of Bruno The Brussels, a lost dog in Queens who found his way home thanks to help from members of the LGBT community.

Bruno, a one-year-old Brussels Griffon, lives with guardians Jeff Simmons and Alfonso Quiroz in the Jackson Heights neighborhood. One afternoon almost two weeks ago, Bruno broke from his dog walker’s leash and fled, prompting an intense, daylong campaign to find him. The couple’s deep roots in New York City politics and media bolstered the outreach blitz.

According to The New Yorker, the efforts included an e-mail message that former City Council candidate Yetta Kurland, a lesbian attorney in the West Village, sent to some 20,000 people on last year's campaign list.

“I ran on a humane platform, of awareness to animal issues,” Kurland told The New Yorker.

Other communications were sent through Bruno’s Facebook page, where he maintains more than 500 fans. But in the end, Bruno was reunited with his family the old-fashioned way, after the man who found him the day he broke free returned to the area, saw posters and called Quiroz.

Read the saga with the improbably happy ending here. Bruno has not commented on the experience to date.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Caleb
    Date posted: 4/20/2010 8:21:39 PM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    Ha Ha Ha you're so funny Bobby.

  • Name: Bobby
    Date posted: 4/20/2010 3:39:57 PM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    Ummm...actually, Caleb, you asked me to do that several months ago at one of the bars. I said "no," then, and I'll say "no" again. Not my type.

  • Name: Caleb
    Date posted: 4/20/2010 3:18:19 PM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    Fuck you all.

  • Name: Bobby
    Date posted: 4/20/2010 3:17:21 PM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    Hi. I live in Atlanta. I know Caleb. He's a very bitter person who has lost his job and hasn't managed to do much besides hit the bars and drink a little too much. I think I recently saw him at a coffee shop with a new iPad, so I don't know that he's actually doing anything useful at all. Not even helping to find lost puppies.

  • Name: Shane
    Date posted: 4/19/2010 9:19:06 PM
    Hometown: Oceanside

    Comment:

    Caleb, it would appear that you are only able to take on one thing at a time, unlike the rest of us, we can do many things in a day. Does every single day have to be a fight for equality? Does every single story on Advocate have to be about fighting The Man? It is true those are large parts of our lives, but do not take away from the rest of us who "live" our lives in many other ways. I am glad these people got their dog back, it gives me faith in our fellow man.

  • Name: rea
    Date posted: 4/19/2010 6:54:06 PM
    Hometown: san diego, ca

    Comment:

    Caleb - with wonderful people like you who know of only the most important things about which to spend your powerful time, us mere mortals are left with a little time to help out another person who has lost their dog. Thank goodness you grace the earth with your effective-at-all times existance!

  • Name: Caleb
    Date posted: 4/19/2010 4:37:04 PM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    Right. Aren't there other things going on to which we can dedicate our time? I'm glad these people got their little dog back, but this is a waste. Again, aren't there more productive things to do with our resources people? This is another popularity contest in the gay community as far as I'm concerned. A Facebook group was created and some queer wanted to be recognized.

  • Name: Bx
    Date posted: 4/19/2010 2:58:06 PM
    Hometown: Charlotte

    Comment:

    Glad you and your partner got your buddy back. It's all about helping each other, folks.

  • Name: Jeff Simmons
    Date posted: 4/19/2010 1:28:49 PM
    Hometown: Jackson Heights

    Comment:

    On behalf of Bruno, my partner and I want to thank Yetta Kurland and everyone who helped find our missing dog. It was an amazing, loving response, and folks from all walks of life, and many corners of this great city, reached out to offer comfort, suggestions, and help. Los Angeles is not the only city of angels.



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