Combat working dog, trained to sniff out bombs.
If they are saying he is suffering from PTSD maybe he smelled the ammo and had a flashback.
Especially if the rider was Middle Eastern OR panicked and swerved towards the dog.
But that still doesn’t ‘allow’ the dog to be roaming ESPECIALLY if he has ‘flashbacks’.
Someone said the Vet should face his ‘problems’ like every one else...consider they were probably in combat together and the attachment is life long...Then again - if that is the case maybe the dog should have went hunting with the Vet BUT since people aren’t programmed to see ‘Service Dogs’ as only for the blind, the dog probably wasn’t welcome in most places???
Yep, the best choice would have been for the owner to take his dog along with him on a leash. A service dog is with its owner every waking moment.
Very preventable tragedy.