Military dogs euthanized as 'equipment' under cruel law

msn.com ^ | 6/30/2012 | Staff

[LearsFool]

You should read more carefully.

[JLLH]

Follow your own advice. Get the telephone pole out of your own eye before worrying about the speck in someone else’s. Just sayin’.

[VF-51vnv]

You are correct sir. Having been the Property Administrator at the SPR for over 13 years,every one of our sites has/had two German shepards. They were trained in Germany along with their specific handlers. Our each trained dog was $15,000.00 each. They only listen German commands for guard ,drug and explosive duties.Their average active duty span was only 4-5 years.When they are starting to go down we always gave custody to their handlers,unless you know German. These dogs are worked HARD every day, 24/7/365,they earned their keep and more in my opinion. By the way, they only live about one year after their duty with their handlers.

[shibumi]

"Shoehorning your opinions into others’ words is not honest discussion."

You might want to look in the mirror. No one on this thread mentioned PETA or anything to do with their agenda (which, by the way, I fully oppose) until you decided to use that acronym to describe our purpose in posting this thread and its subsequent discussion.

[JLLH]

Very well said, and thank you! You put it better than I did.

[LearsFool]

I quote people so as not to misrepresent them. See post #43, please. I think that’ll answer your questions.

[shibumi]

OK

I'll quote you so as not to misrepresent you:

"Wow, PETA has invaded FreeRepublic."

I myself and I imagine a few others here resent the implication that we are pushing the PETA agenda.

Perhaps you could show me where I did that.

Feel free to use quotation marks.

[editor-surveyor]

Please note that this fool is well enough aware that he is a fool to have so named himself.
.

[shibumi]

I was saving that one.

[Salamander]

At least half of his user name is self explanatory.
Do not waste further electrons on this soulless cretin.

[Salamander]

The DPCA started the K9 recruitment surge, offering thousands of Dobermans to the Marines, thereby giving them their “Devil Dog” reputation.

All the dogs, except those who gave their lives in battle, were returned.

Some of the biggest named show kennels in America sent *many* of their Dobes.

Check out my profile page.

[Salamander]

War dogs were/are trained to respond to *several* handlers due to the possibility of one handler getting hit and nobody being able to get to him because the dog is ‘guarding’ him.

[Salamander]

‘Killing animals is not “murder”. Dogs are not “veterans” any more than cannons are. They’re not “police officers” any more than squad-cars are. They’re not “personnel”. They’re not “soldiers”. “

I DARE you to go kill any one of the above and see just how *much* they *are* “soldiers”, “personnel” and “officers”.

Put up or shut up.

[Salamander]

“I never will understand why some feel that their “special” relationship to God is somehow threatened by showing compassion to God’s other creatures.”

Sheer religious egotism.

[or a deep hatred of animals with the attending horror that they *might* have to spend eternity surrounded by them]

[Salamander]

If nothing else, imagine how thrilled law enforcement agencies would be to get an already trained bomb or police dog for little or no cash.

[JLLH]

Exactly. Even if they are ill they deserve far better than to be killed. Hopefully as some have posted here this is changing.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If equipment, why can’t they be surplused?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Given the “Doggy” do that Barack Obama earlier stepped in politically, maybe he’ll be willing to sign a bipartisan bill, the WOOF (Wardogz On to Our Families) Act.

[JLLH]

LOL! Nice idea, but considering that he’s trying to raise the cost of healthcare right now for the military and trying to hold a bill hostage for that — I wouldn’t bet on it. He’s one serious bag of scum.

[Salamander]

A huge amen to that and prayers that it -will- change, *completely*.

July 8, they’re rerunning “War Dogs Of The Pacific” on the Military Discovery channel.

http://military.discovery.com/tv-schedules/special.html?paid=52.14319.128352.38181.0

Come back to this thread after it’s over and tell me you didn’t cry like a baby.

The men who tell the stories will prove what those dogs mean.