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Retired military dog lives with Texas Marine’s family
The day Bill and Kay Hoffman found out that their 23-year-old son, Alex, was going to be a dog handler for the U.S. Marine Corps, they began praying for the dog that would be by their son’s side.
In this March 20 photo, Kay Hoffman embraces Fenji, a former Marine Corps working dog, at her home in Friendswood, Texas. Hoffman and her husband, Bill, have become Fenji’s caretakers after she was retired from active duty with her handler Corporal Alex Hoffman, Kay and Bill’s son. Prior to working alongside Alex in Afghanistan, Fenji was injured in a 2010 IED explosion in Afghanistan that killed her handler Corporal Max Donahue.
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