A military firing range in a heavily wooded area friendly to snakes, ticks and other vermin is no place for a lap dog. But Angel, a small Shih Tzu, wandered the Fort Campbell firing ranges in Tennessee for about a week, collecting burrs, fleas, possible snake bites and eye ulcers. He was quite a sight [...]
According to new research, under Adolf Hitler’s directions, the Nazis tried to train dogs to talk, read and spell to help them win World War II. According to the research, led by Jan Bondeson of Cardiff University, the Germans viewed canines as being almost as intelligent as humans and they attempted to build an army [...]
By Eliane Furst For Dog Files Basco, a 7-year-old bomb sniffing German Sheperd Dog received revolutionary stem-cell therapy Thursday at the Oregon State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Basco suffers from osteoarthritis in his left hip. Pioneered by MediVet-America, the procedure involves removing fat tissue from an animal, separating fat cells from stem cells in [...]
By Jon Rabiroff For Stars And Stripes Afghanistan — U.S. soldiers and Marines are smuggling them onto bases across the country. The military leadership seems to turn a blind eye, though regulations specifically prohibit them. They go by names like Smoke, Bacon, Mickey Blue Eyes and Butterscotch, and they can be coerced with as little [...]
By Tom Vanden Brook for USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Marines in Afghanistan want to more than double the number of bomb-sniffing dogs at their disposal in the battle against record-setting attacks by insurgents using makeshift explosives. Marines in the heart of the Taliban stronghold in the southern part of the country have asked to boost [...]
Click to join our Facebook Fan Page and follow us on Twitter! By William M. Welch for USA TODAY KABUL — In the struggle to bring peace to Afghanistan, few can claim a more dangerous job than the one Betty and Jimmy are preparing for. Friendly and eager young German shepherd dogs, they are being [...]
