Posted on 08/03/2010 9:45:16 AM PDT by JoeProBono
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) -- Gina was a playful 2-year-old German shepherd when she went to Iraq as a highly trained bomb-sniffing dog with the military, conducting door-to-door searches and witnessing all sorts of noisy explosions.
She returned home to Colorado cowering and fearful. When her handlers tried to take her into a building, she would stiffen her legs and resist. Once inside, she would tuck her tail beneath her body and slink along the floor.
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Hard to believe we're still fighting a war in that POS country....
I don’t like dogs, or cats.
Obama just announced the other day that the troops are being pulled out from Iraq.
IIRC he said within two months and they are packing up now.
(but it is Obama speaking here)
>Sounds like the green-eyed monster to me.<
Why, because I know of many incredibly talented dog trainers of whom the general public is unaware?
Captain Arthur Haggerty:
http://www.haggertydog.com/articles/Arthur_Hagerty_74_Hartford_Courant.pdf
Ian Dunbar, a world renowned authority on dog training:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTkYvn1HjrI
Dr Helmut Raiser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-hRhnlmKRw
Fred Hassen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1BhRbYjfrQ
Armin Winkler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sj22JSQ9Zk&feature=channel
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