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After Duty, Dogs Suffer Like Soldiers
New York Times ^
| 1 December 2011
| James Dao
Posted on 12/02/2011 4:41:24 AM PST by Racehorse
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12/02/2011 4:41:30 AM PST
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Racehorse
To: Racehorse; Joe 6-pack
To: Racehorse
To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; Shannon; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; ...
WOOOF!
The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.
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12/02/2011 4:49:39 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Racehorse
Having seen how some dogs can panic at the sound of gunfire or thunder I can well imagine how some of these dogs behave.
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posted on
12/02/2011 4:50:13 AM PST
by
RipSawyer
(This does not end well!)
To: Racehorse
Tell your Congressman to vote them all a nice disability pension.
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posted on
12/02/2011 4:56:28 AM PST
by
izzatzo
( Anybody but Obamney and Huntsman. Cain looks better and better.)
To: Joe 6-pack
Thanks for teaching me somthing new today!
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posted on
12/02/2011 4:59:57 AM PST
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: Racehorse
If you want to put doggy thoughts into their heads, he said, the dog is thinking: when I see this kind of individual, things go boom, and Im distressed.
That’s a pretty good assessment of all koranimals.
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posted on
12/02/2011 5:02:21 AM PST
by
bayouranger
(The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
To: Racehorse; Joe 6-pack
I like the last sentence in the article where the vet says, “Dogs never forget.”
To: afraidfortherepublic
To: Joe 6-pack
When Dogs were used to find survivors in the OKC Bombing, it rapidly became evident that there were only dead bodies to be found. The dogs became visibly depressed when there were no “Live Rescues” The handlers had to stage at least one live rescue at the end of the day, so the dogs could go to sleep at night and resume work the next day. The same thing happened at the World Trade Center.
To: proud American in Canada
To: afraidfortherepublic
Your picture has so much raw emotion in it. So much intensity. Thank you for posting it, afraidfortherepublic.
To: Joe 6-pack; Racehorse
Joe, would you please put me on the doggie ping list?
We adopted our dog from a shelter—she’d been rescued from a man in Montreal who was a hoarder and had thirty dogs. When we got her, she was so terrified—if we came anywhere near her food bowl, she would run away. She was so undernourished she had no fur on her belly.
Well, she’s fine now, she eats well :). But anything new, like going to the vet or even riding in the car, she trembles.
Dogs are amazing companions and I’m sure they bring comfort to the troops, but of course, with their intelligence, they must also be at risk of being traumatized.
To: LadyBuck
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12/02/2011 5:22:31 AM PST
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algernonpj
(He who pays the piper . . .)
To: afraidfortherepublic
That picture so emotional; you can see the connection.
They had an episode of Pet Heroes (on Canadian Discovery Channel)—in WWII, there was a dog who was adopted by a contingent of soldiers; he quickly learned what grenades were—watching the men throw them as far away as possible (when the grenades were thrown at them).
During one firefight, the soldiers were injured and another grenade was thrown at them. But they were incapacitated and couldn’t reach it.
So the dog—I think his name was Boomer?—grabbed the grenade in his mouth and ran as far away as he could before it exploded.
He received a post-humous (hope I spelled that right) award from the military.
Dogs must bring the troops great comfort.
To: Racehorse
Here's a story about
Gunner, who was diagnosed with doggie PTSD and found a new home with Deb and Dan Dunham, whose Marine son died in Iraq protecting the men beside him.
With patience, a rubber toy, and the help of their yellow lab Ziggy, the Dunhams are trying to coax Gunner back to emotional health.
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12/02/2011 5:52:26 AM PST
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algernonpj
(He who pays the piper . . .)
To: algernonpj
One of my 3 dogs is a rescued 107 pound part ridgeback part german shepherd? who was found taped up in a box in the woods with another dog and left to die. When we needed a companion for our 127 pound lab blueheeler mix because she chewed through a chain link fence in a thunderstorm we got Chief. Chief had been in a rescue facility for nearly a year, it's harder to adopt out big dogs. He is an awesome animal but definitely shy. I expect his rough early years are still with him. He is very protective of my wife though, and has a bark that he uses infrequently but to good effect. The thing with dogs is that they have learned over centuries of living with people, who to trust and who not to. Any of these war dogs with PTSD can benefit from a loving home, you just need to be attentive to there needs. As far as thunder goes, Chief benefits from a device that wraps around his body like a tight blanket, apparently it gives him a secure feeling because he is definitely less nervous when it's on him. Otherwise he'll hide in a corner if it's thundering. Anyway good luck and best wishes to the Dunhams, patience, patience, patience.
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12/02/2011 6:37:26 AM PST
by
dblshot
(Insanity: electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
To: Racehorse
Now people are worrying about dog PTSD, but when human combat veterans suffer from PTSD and fall into addictions or despair they’re called bums.
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posted on
12/02/2011 6:51:21 AM PST
by
Talisker
(History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
To: dblshot
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12/02/2011 8:36:26 AM PST
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algernonpj
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