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Semper Fi, Rex. Ooooo-rah!
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Semper Fi, Rex. Ooooo-rah!
"Dogman" wrote in message news http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...death-row.html -- Dogman How brave they are! Nice to have a happy ending but sadly, not all military dogs are saved. Britain has a poor record. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ving-time.html http://tinyurl.com/c6dcj6m |
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Semper Fi, Rex. Ooooo-rah!
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 19:28:26 +0100, "Alison"
wrote: "Dogman" wrote in message news http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...death-row.html -- Dogman How brave they are! Nice to have a happy ending but sadly, not all military dogs are saved. Britain has a poor record. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ving-time.html http://tinyurl.com/c6dcj6m My opinion: If a dog is deemed stable enough for military work, it's almost certainly stable enough to be rehomed afterwards, as are thousands of retired police dogs. The training is pretty much the same. I'm surprised more of these British (and American) dog handlers aren't demanding to be reunited with their old working dogs. Sounds like typical bureaucratic bullshit to me. -- Dogman |
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Semper Fi, Rex. Ooooo-rah!
How long has it been since you've been around some Military Working
Dogs? None of their vets will touch them for routine wellness checks unless the dog's muzzled.... {grin} (Methinks the problem is more with the vets than with the dogs.....) Schutzhund, Ring Sport? Today these have to be pretty stable. But not all of the MWDs have that in their profiles. "Hard" imported European "working" Mals and GSDs for the most part. They're doing better at placing the US dogs into homes than a couple of years ago, but there are still monumental cases of things going FUBAR..... And many of the applicants aren't good matches for a number of reasons.... to include former handlers who have wives who are afraid of big dogs..... (had a situation of this here not long ago). Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia, USA |
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Semper Fi, Rex. Ooooo-rah!
Dogman.... my "official" sig block is "LTC (ret), US Army".... {grin},
and I live 15 minutes from Fort Gordon. Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia, USA |
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Semper Fi, Rex. Ooooo-rah!
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Semper Fi, Rex. Ooooo-rah!
Now, the real FUBAR with dogs is the situation with service dogs for the
military members in the process of retiring medically. My gritch has to do with dogs used by mobile, mostly PTSD effected, troops. Not those used by physically handicapped folks. If the dog comes from one of the few-but-several Dept of Defence (DoD) recognized programs (Walter Reed, for one), the troop can have the dog anywhere, to include in the barracks, hospital. If, however, the pre-retirement military member has obtained a dog of his/her own, privately, and trained it to do what is needed, it becomes a Chinese firedrill. A highly motivated student of ours has managed to get his dog recognized for everything Except residing in barracks.... lots of time, effort, and stress he didn't need, but which has helped him start to deal with stress better. Another student, who is married and living in post housing, has no problem in that regard, and housing is even fencing the yard for him. BUT both of these guys have made visible and striking progress with reduction in medications and vast reduction in panic attacks. And then there are those, pre-retirement or not being processed for retirement, who have gone out and gotten a dog, and have declared it to be a service dog, with or without any formal training. I shudder to think what inappropriate matches, inappropriate dogs, and damn fools are in this position. Allegedly, some troops at Fort Hood have tried this and been told to take the dogs home. Being uneducated, allegedly some of these characters have tried to just put their dogs in their POVs in the parking lot.... With the MPs quickly arriving. Oh, hi-ho! Jo Wolf Martinez, Georgia, USA |
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Semper Fi, Rex. Ooooo-rah!
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