There’s nothing like a reunion, especially with a military dog who saved your life – and the lives of many others – on numerous occasions during dangerous deployments. After too many months apart, you wonder if the dog will even recognize you, much less be happy to see you. Last week, Marine Gunnery Sgt. Chris…
Glory Hounds from ten100 on Vimeo. Animal Planet is putting together a new series that follows three military dog teams. It’s called Glory Hounds, and from the trailer, it looks like it really captures the essence of the military working dog world. I’m greatly looking forward to seeing it. /9I’ve heard it will air either…
In the last couple of weeks we’ve lost some extraordinary military working dogs (not in war, though). A salute to the four-legged heroes: Lex, Rony, Bino, Mali, Bastar, and Nisan. RIP, you beautiful dogs. (I saw the name Dak posted as well, but can’t find any information on him. Can someone tell me if…
This is slightly off-topic for this blog on military working dogs, but it features a dog and a soldier, so it’s close enough! When this soldier returned home from an 8-month deployment, his boxer was indescribably overjoyed to see him. Dogs don’t forget. Enjoy the video!
(I wrote this yesterday for my blog on Dogster.com and realized it belongs here as well.) Remember back in 2007 when footage came out showing a North Carolina cop yanking and kicking the crap out of his Belgian Malinois patrol and narcotics detector dog? It was very disturbing to watch, although I’m sure much more…