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Military dogs euthanized as 'equipment' under cruel law
msn.com ^ | 6/30/2012 | Staff

Posted on 06/30/2012 2:23:02 AM PDT by shibumi

If roadside bombs and other hazards of war don't kill military dogs, senseless government regulations and red tape might. The United States is breeding 100 puppies a year to train for bomb sniffing and other soldierly duties, but many aren't making it back to happy homes because an obscure federal law classifies them as "equipment" rather than personnel -- and makes adopting them a financial and bureaucratic nightmare. A bill to require that the military ship the heroic dogs home and ease potential veterinarian costs for adopting families is currently bogged down in Congress, as dogs continue to be euthanized. In the meantime, at least there is an occasional happy ending.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; doggieping; dogsoldiers; k9; military
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To: shibumi

If he actually *were* a biblical literalist, he wouldn’t be posting his unscriptural screed.

Ain’t no way you can weasel-word your way around this:

http://bible.cc/romans/8-22.htm
http://bible.cc/matthew/10-29.htm

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.


121 posted on 07/01/2012 11:19:00 PM PDT by Salamander (I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
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To: shibumi

‘Heck, they haven’t even saved mine.”

Ah, the wisdom and discrimination of the dog.

If I had him as an overlord, I’d not be over inclined, either.

:)

[yet mine have saved me countless times...reckon I deserved it]


122 posted on 07/01/2012 11:22:12 PM PDT by Salamander (I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
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To: Salamander

I was speaking to the pretension rather than the fact.


123 posted on 07/01/2012 11:22:27 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi

I know.

I just had to come by and “pinsch” it a bit.

;D


124 posted on 07/01/2012 11:24:36 PM PDT by Salamander (I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
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To: shibumi

‘If you had been paying attention during the fight for Terri’s life, you would have found many of the people you are now attacking on this thread as the most vociferous and committed in her defense. (That defense going well beyond just words in many cases.)”

Boy, do I ever remember that blood fest.

At least two particular ‘ladies’ are probably signing up for the new death panels, right now.

I still stand by my position; Terri was brutally murdered in cold blood.


125 posted on 07/01/2012 11:30:12 PM PDT by Salamander (I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
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To: shibumi; All
Remember Navy Seal Petty Officer Jon T. Tumilson?

His dog’s devotion brings tears to my eyes every time I see the one at his master’s funeral.

Putting down dogs with this devotion?

126 posted on 07/02/2012 8:02:22 AM PDT by QT3.14 (USA: Likely only country in history with laws and policies that ensure self-destruction!)
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To: QT3.14; JLLH; Salamander; Altariel

Evidently these dogs have more soul than s bureaucrat.

(And maybe even one or two isolated FReepers.)


127 posted on 07/02/2012 8:06:38 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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"a" bureaucrat. (Fingers too big for keyboard!)
128 posted on 07/02/2012 8:09:28 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: LearsFool

You clearly don’t understand the meaning or the context of Orwell’s famous quote if you think it applies there.

Why do you have so little respect for Orwell, a man, that you attempt to twist the meaning of that quote by ripping it out of context?


129 posted on 07/02/2012 8:58:56 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Salamander

Agreed on that. I was angry, sad, outraged all in one and sickened that some “conservatives” had no problem with her life being ended like that — or her being denied water and food by calling it something above and beyond regular care. The base nature of humanity never ceases to frighten me. (Not so with animals, though! :))


130 posted on 07/02/2012 9:28:20 AM PDT by JLLH
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To: miss marmelstein
Still, if you see the play “War Horse” it will break your heart knowing what these beasts went through...

Generally didn't work out real well for the humans, either.

131 posted on 07/02/2012 9:29:31 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: LearsFool; Salamander; shibumi
Yeah, I can see all of your points.

But I still hate you all.

132 posted on 07/02/2012 9:30:43 AM PDT by Lazamataz (People who resort to Godwin's Law are just like Hitler.)
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To: Salamander

You may THINK you know something of Marine Corps history, but you’d be wrong. The term, “devil dogs” was applied to us by the Germans in WWI (Teufel hunden, or hounds from hell). Had nothing to do with borrowed dogs during WWII whatsoever.


133 posted on 07/02/2012 9:37:51 AM PDT by dcwusmc (A FREE People have no sovereign save Almighty GOD!!! III OK We are EVERYWHERE!!!)
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To: Salamander

Dogs are not and cannot be police officers, ever. How do they take the oath of office. It’s a ridiculous notion. If a dog = a cop = a human being, then cops who kill private dogs should face just as much hard time as someone killing a police dog.

On the other hand, dogs do save human lives and should NOT be killed when they are no longer needed.


134 posted on 07/02/2012 9:45:55 AM PDT by dcwusmc (A FREE People have no sovereign save Almighty GOD!!! III OK We are EVERYWHERE!!!)
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To: Lazamataz



(Of course I mean that in the nicest, most loving way possible.)

135 posted on 07/02/2012 10:08:02 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi

Let's snuggle.

136 posted on 07/02/2012 10:31:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz (People who resort to Godwin's Law are just like Hitler.)
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To: Lazamataz



Awwwww, Mongo straight!

137 posted on 07/02/2012 10:46:30 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: dcwusmc
“offering thousands of Dobermans to the Marines, thereby giving them their “Devil Dog” reputation.”

“Them” = the Dobermanns.

Reading comprehension is your friend.

[and the “Devil Dog” nickname applied to Marines is apocryphal. the US media used it in conjunction with The Battle of Belleau Wood even though its first appearance in print was a full two months before the battle but it was never verified by any actual Germans. it is considered a “motivational nickname” which is fine, nonetheless]

138 posted on 07/02/2012 10:52:18 AM PDT by Salamander (I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name.)
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To: DuncanWaring

No kidding.


139 posted on 07/02/2012 11:18:55 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: shibumi

This is so incredibly disgusting. The fix only requires an officer with a tiny bit of “hair.” That’s what those shoulder stars/bars are for. The easiest way , if they are “ ëquipment” is to declare them unserviceable and give them away ( to their handler) . Another way, ala General Patton, is to make them war trophies and award them, with paperwork, to the guy who served with them. These rules haven’t changed for at least half a century but it seems the availability of gonads has.


140 posted on 07/02/2012 12:43:36 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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