Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer

In Loving Memory of Bru. Hiking buddy, lover of squeaky toys, bird chaser, best friend. March 28, 2018 – September 5, 2026
Until we meet again, son. ❤️🐾🇩🇪👉

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

I lost my best friend tonight.

RIP Bruiser

See you soon buddy

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

@flatearthrespct Prayers for comfort for you

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

@Iowa_1776 @Lasher151 @wdavid1983 You are the richest male alive

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

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[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

I met God in a dog

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Owning a pet is linked to a brain that looks up to 15 years younger. A University of Alabama study scanned 95 adults and found that pet owners had better memory, faster thinking, and bigger brain structures, especially dog owners.

Fifty-six pet owners and 39 people without pets, aged 20 to 74, took thinking tests and got brain scans. Ian McDonough's team published the study in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience in 2022.

Pet owners thought faster, shifted their attention more easily, and remembered stories better. Their brains looked up to 15 years younger compared with typical scans for their age, and the effects were largest in dog owners. The researchers expected pets to help through better mood, social life, or physical health, but those things didn't explain the results.

Older adults who owned more than one pet showed even more benefit than those with one or none. The researchers suspect each animal adds its own needs and habits to keep track of, which could give an aging brain extra daily work. With 95 people tested once, the study can't rule out that people with healthier brains are simply more likely to own pets. In this group, the pet owners had the younger-looking brains, and the dog owners stood out most. https://t.co/boprBRgeLW

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

@bsands101 Me too. There’s a dog at the dog park that has one of these carriages. Happiest dog ever.

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

How’s your Monday going?

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Good men loving their dogs are the BEST MEN EVER!!
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[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

I had to wait five weeks after picking Bru from the litter until he was old enough to fly. I got him from a breeder in Greeley, Colorado. It was the longest five weeks ever!

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

Here he is playing pheasant wing with his brothers and sisters. When I saw how rowdy he was I named him Bruiser !

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@PhilSledge Bruiser having a snoozle

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your dog carries your stress in its body for months. A 2019 study in Scientific Reports measured cortisol in the hair of 58 dogs and their owners over a full year and found that the two rose and fell together. When you are stressed, your dog is stressed. When you calm down, so does it.

The synchrony was not driven by walks, weather, or the dog's own life events. It was driven by the owner. Dogs whose owners scored higher on personality measures of anxiety showed higher cortisol year-round. The dog's body was tracking the owner's emotional state over months, not moments.

The bond between a human and a dog is not a one-way relationship where the human provides and the dog receives. The dog is absorbing the household's emotional weather and carrying it in its endocrine system. Your bad month is its bad month.

This is what 15,000 years of co-evolution looks like. The dog did not just learn to read your face. It learned to sync its chemistry to yours, and the hair on its back is keeping a record of how you have been feeling since the last time it was groomed.

The next time someone says "it's just a dog," the cortisol data says otherwise. The dog is a mirror with a heartbeat, and the reflection goes deeper than behaviour. https://t.co/L5PUkx6Jg9

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

@PhilSledge Bruiser

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@btctams09 You never know for sure. My best friend bruiser was taken from me Unexpectedly was totally healthy he had just been to the vet. He died of a heart attack. The best thing you can do is cherish every moment with them as I’m sure you already do.

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

@lepfan11 Losing a pet is so hard. Saying a prayer for you for comfort in your time of anguish.

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

@chriswrenla Never a dull moment when you have a GSP that’s for sure

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

When you have a GSP

If you know you know

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

@vickervics9 Bruiser

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

@BrushNew So sorry for your loss. I’m sure you are devastated. Prayers for you coming your way.

[Keith R @karnlt]

Our young #Germanshorthairedpointer Bluebell experiencing echoing for the first time & barking back at it! #gsp [Turn Sound Up]

[Bruiser the German Shorthaired Pointer @AZ_GSP]

When you have a GSP

If you know you know