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Military hospital opens for dogs wounded in war - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/21/war.dogs.hospital.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories - broken link)
I'm puzzled by this paragraph though:
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The hospital was already overloaded by Sept. 11, 2001, but since then, demand for military working dogs has jumped dramatically. They're so short on dog breeds such as German shepherds, Labrador retrievers and Belgian Malinoises that Lackland officials have begun breeding puppies at the base.Lackland is training 750 dogs, which is nearly double the number of dogs there before the Sept. 11 attacks, Vogelsang said.
Why don't they try to use the unwanted pit bulls and pit mixes that are in the animal shelters? A lot of those dogs are still young adults. Don't some of you pit bull owners say that your breed makes good working dogs?
I don't know why they wouldn't get a young dog from a shelter, either. But the military is in the business of using dogs, not saving them. I understood that in the Vietnam war era, dogs were just left on ground to fend for themselves.
I don't know why they wouldn't get a young dog from a shelter, either. But the military is in the business of using dogs, not saving them. I understood that in the Vietnam war era, dogs were just left on ground to fend for themselves.
I don't know why it never crossed my mind that dogs were also casulties of this stupid war.
Unfortunately, humans have always had a tendency to get all kinds of animals involved in wars, from cavalry to dogs with anti-tank mines attached to their backs (Russia, WW2). And animals are generally considered more expendable than people, as there are no families of animals to complain if one doesn't come back.
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