Posted on 01/05/2005 12:58:40 PM PST by esryle
LAS VEGAS -- The commander of an Army Reserve detachment is begging friends back home to send food for Iraqi police dogs.
"The dogs are starving and urgently need dry dog food," Capt. Gabriella Cook, commander of the Las Vegas-based 313th Military Police Detachment, said in a Dec. 28 e-mail reported Wednesday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
"Some of them have already died," Cook wrote. "Half of them are sick. We have no way of buying actual dog food here."
Cook's unit arrived last month in the Iraq capital. She said 12 German shepherds and one black Labrador retriever trained for bomb-detection and attack at the Iraqi Police Academy in Baghdad have been eating table scraps and garbage.
"It seems like an emergency situation," Diana Paivanas, a Henderson pet-care provider and Cook's friend, told the Review-Journal. "Something needs to be done now to save these dogs."
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., a veterinarian, directed a legislative aide to contact an Army liaison to investigate, a spokesman for the senator said.
Military officials at the Combined Press Information Center in Baghdad did not immediately respond to the newspaper's request for information about the food supply for U.S. canines in Iraq.
Paivanas said she found it costs about $50 to mail a 30-pound bag of dog food to Cook.
Henderson Veterinarian Terry Muratore estimated that each of the 13 working dogs would consume a 40 pounds or more of dry food per month.
"If securing the country entails having security dogs that are healthy, then we should do that," Muratore said. "Surely there's space on a C-130 to get a pallet of dog food over there."
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Feed those dogs some roast insurgent for heavens sake!
You mean the US Army can't afford dog food?
You may be interested in this one...
"I am speculating that these might be locally-trained "Iraqi" dogs, and as such are not a sanctioned K-9 unit. There were several instances of combat units "adopting" a local stray, and training him in rudimentary security work. The fact that this is an MP-detachment suggests to the contrary, however."
In whatever case folks. Please bear with me........I think I have a well thought out plan where the dogs as well as the Iraqi people can really benefit from this.
Post signs in Arabic in all cities/towns/hamlets/villages saying:
From now on. All anti-Iraqi insurgents that are killed will be shoved through one of Saddam's plastic shredder machines along with some carrots and potatoes and processed via a local canneries, then shipped to the New Iraqi Police Military Police groups for food for their Military Dogs.
Perhaps such a notice country wide would have a sobering effect on those that continue to appose the upcoming elections. Of course the notice would contain the signatures of all Allawi's IIG.
The title says deployed dogs..
Another example of a cakewalk gone wrong?
Talk to the head of procurement for this unit...The dogs could be fed from army leftovers...I am sceptical about the real problem here.
Ass kickings (much less firings) are as rare as vetoes with this administration.
I hope the Humane Society in Vegas is better than the one here that I just called.
There is a Husky/Malamute that is up the street from us that I walk by every day, he is outside 24/7 in freezing cold below 32 degrees and in rain with a sometimes tangled lead which prevents him from struggling to get into a too small dog house. (I should be thankful, I guess, that he has that). His little house is almost surrounded by dog poop, I don't see water. He is smart enough to poop in the same place which leaves him a clearing on the other side of the tree to lay in the mud or hopefully the sun when it's out.
I bring him food when I can. Although I will say he does not look like he's starving, he's not fat either.
I called the Humane Society to see if they could check on the dogs welfare. They told me to call animal control. Yeah right, so they can pick him up and then euthanize him. That's not my idea of a solution.
Anyway I just e-mailed the SPCA for help, let's see what they say. If I had a fenced yard and landlord that wouldn't mind I would dognap him.
Perhaps if more national attention could be brought to this matter. . . . Via the media contact list in my user profile....
Also consider looking on the internet for a Malamute or Husky rescue group near you. Many breed clubs have them.
If there are any volunteers who work with your local dog pound to rescue dogs, you might talk to them about the situation, too.
I really wish I lived near you, because I'd help in a heartbeat. Heck, if worse came to worse, I'd find a way to encourage the dog's collar to "break," then encourage him onto public land where I'd rescue him as a "stray." Then I'd take him home and try to find him a new, loving home.
In any case, bless your kind and loving heart for at least trying to help that dog.
"The title says deployed dogs.."
Roger that. I am sure these pups are from the good old USA.
And I hope every one of em, get properly cared for and are spared being hurt during their deployment. I am a bit aware of stories of old as how our military dogs' often served with distinction. Perhaps another bridge between mid eastern and western cultures shall be breeched as the Iraqi Police discover what loyal companions are now in their care.
Is the Iraqi army dogs
Guys it known fact in Middle East that dogs are scum of the earth in Islamic society
Thanks for caring about him... Animal control in that case are the only ones with jursidiction to visit/ticket or confiscate an abused or neglected animal. They're th ecops in this case that can safely talk to the owner, the humane society evidently has no power to do that.
Of course, if you were to do-nap the dog I'd never tell. ;~D
I can't believe we have dogs starving that are working to save our soldiers lives. The caretakers of the dogs should be reprimanded if it's true.
NOT my Orange Wing Amazon! I have never seen any animal that can manufacture p**p in such quantities and as often as him. He can fly from whatever perch he is on, land, cr@p on the floor, walk 2 ft. and cr@p again, walk another foot and cr@p again, and then repeat as needed.
He seems to be one massive alimentary canal, and somewhere in there is a storage area along with it. I call him my walking/flying sh!t factory. [grin]
And whoever coined the term "bird-brain" certainly didn't know anything about birds- at least the parrots that I have had. Their personalities and intelligence are amazing. Although, because of the aforementioned proclivity, I do call him sh!thead a lot, just not because of his lack of intelligence.
At least he has something to look forward to.
He waits for me now wagging his tail. I usually go up the hill and come back down on his side of the street which he knows and doesn't get up until then. Last night I misjudged my throw of his food goodie and he was tangled in his leash thing and couldn't reach it, so I had to pick up my dog Jack and go in to retrieve it. That's when I noticed all the dog poop. Ugh.
BTW how is the fund going for the Marines dog kenneled in No Carolina?
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