Pets for Patients

18/06/2025

We are super excited about our new match.

A family with a young boy who is very sick just received a special gift at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

18/06/2025

Actor Tom Hardy Writes Touching Letter To His Dog After He Passes Away

Tom Hardy's love of dogs is well documented, and the world absolutely melted when the London-born actor took his canine companion, Woodstock, to the premiere of the film Legend back in 2015.

Hardy's love of animals is evident in his latest letter on Tumblr, written in memoriam of his 6-year-old rescue pup, Woodstock, who died two days prior from an aggressive form of polymyositis, an inflammatory muscle disease.

"I don’t normally speak out about family and friends but this is an unusual circumstance," wrote the actor, who stars in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, out July 21. "He was far too young to leave us and we at home are devastated by his loss."

Hardy recalled how he came to adopt Woodstock (nicknamed "Woody") in Atlanta while shooting his 2012 drama Lawless. "He was a stray," writes Hardy, who first spotted the 11-week-old pup running towards a Georgia turnpike. In the pitch black night, the dog ran away from the actor, who had stopped his car.

"I panicked a little because I couldn’t help it had no name to shout and now it was close to the freeway," writes Hardy. "I put my fingers to my mouth and I whistled. Loud as I could. The whistle pierced the black. And It stopped the dog dead in its tracks. Then it turned and set eyes on me in one swift movement the ears about faced and the dog decided to run straight at me in the darkness all flashes of teeth and snarling."

But instead of biting the movie star, the dog allowed himself to be picked up, and quickly fell asleep on Hardy's lap in the car. "He wore a red bandanna that night and from then on and drank religiously from the toilet throughout the night despite having a few bowls of water in the apartment ... he was every inch a survivor," says the star, who included a 9-minute tribute video in the post.

Hardy added that the dog loved his wife, Charlotte Riley, "like his Mum. And when she was pregnant he (guarded) her fiercely." Woody would continue to accompany Hardy on film sets, to premieres and was even named the No. 73 most influential animal in Time magazine. Wrote the actor. "He beat JAWS."

Hardy signed off calling the pup his best friend. "To me and to a family who loved him beyond words and whom he loved without doubt more than I have ever known. Woody was the bestest of journey companions we ever could dream of having. Our souls intertwined forever."

Tom Hardy post and video:
http://tomhardydotorg.tumblr.com/post/161532868851/i-first-saw-woodstock-running-across-a-turnpike-we

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