Soldier Begging For Dog Food For Deployed Dogs

[InkAddict]

Commander Says Dogs Live Off Scraps And Garbage

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/4050736/detail.html

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 REALLY IS A VOLUNTEER ARMY WHEN WE CAN'T EVEN SUPPLY FOOD FOR THE WORKING "DOGS." Someone call the ASPCA on *'s policies!

[LuLu550]

1. This should be posted on

animal rights/animal lover sites, in addition to being on political sites!

[Moderator]

2. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1124172&mesg_id=1124172