Sign petition to help save a dog's life

**** that.

 

I signed the petition. That is messed up.

 

I'd like to hear the military's rationale for this. What is the wording of the rule and why is it in place? There may be very good reasons why the dog shouldn't go home with her.

 

I remember another story just like this one. It was a guy who did the same thing.

The Army DIDN'T let him take the dog.

But people raised money and surprised him, they flew the dog to him the next year and they were reunited in the USA.

 

plenty of dogs here.

 

Signed it. Hope everything works out.

 

I don't want that iraqi disease carrying dog over here!

 

Because that's obviously what it must be.
Do you own a pet at all?

Signed.

 

I signed the hell out of that petition. I hope the dog and the soldier will get to stay together.

 

Nevermind... thought this was the SJP thread.

 

This story made Digg's front page like a week ago. It had over 5000 diggs from what I last saw.

 

Don't worry! The internets are here!

 

I mean, if each person could donate at least one internet, then the dog might be saved.

 

Is that actually a native Iraqi dog?

General Order 1B prohibits the "adopting as pets or mascots, caring for, feeding any type
of domestic or wild animal."

The military doesn't want rations, bought, packed and shipped using the US' taxpayers' money, allocated for military personnel consumption/aid, being used to feed strays... or enemy livestock, for that matter... among a multitude of reasons.

Combat stress? I thought military training was supposed to teach you how to cope with that?

 

I signed it, but the Army ain't just gonna believe a bunch of INTERNET geek pet owners who just go and click a bunch of keystrokes to do something for a dog. Don't they have some kind of rule that the soldier broke? "Don't take stray dogs or stray people from Iraq, 'cuz we won't take them home with us." ???

That's INSUBORDINATION from the soldier, IMHO.

C'mon, now... don't insult that poor dog.

OR

That would have been "Sign petition to help save a horse's life"

 

The military is really stupid sometimes - there are so many studies that show that dogs improve mental health and given the issues many soldiers have had with PTSD, amending this rule could save them money on future mental health treatment.

I understand that there are limited resources, but the only taxpayers who would get uptight about "paying" to support a soldier's dog are the same people who supported fighting this war on the cheap. They can go to hell.

 

A stray animal dies every 4 seconds in this country......


.... that number should be doubled. !