 merrie says: He couldn't take the dog with him and watched as it tried to follow the Humvees away from the border. Two days later, while Dennis and a comrade were working on a Humvee, he looked up and saw the dog staring at him. "Somehow that crazy damned dog tracked us," he wrote Jan. 9. But the reunion was short lived. Military policy prohibits having pets in war zones, and Dennis was given four days to get the dog off the base or kill him. The decision was easy: Nubs was going to San Diego. The logistics, though, were anything but easy. With help from his Iraqi interpreter, Dennis managed to find a Jordanian veterinarian to get the care and paperwork needed to get it to the states. He also negotiated the red tape to get the dog across the border into Jordan. His family and close friends helped raise the $3,500 needed to get the dog from Amman, Jordan, to San Diego, said his mother, Marsha Cargo. This evolved fighter pilot doesn't need a jet to fly, he's already an angel. As a lifelong active member of ASPCA/PETA and many more animal rights organizations, I'm going to try and get this story to the activitist's web sites. It will help balance the constant influx of stories about the unnecessary pain and suffering humans inflict on innocent animals. Thank you and God bless Dennis Rescue mission brings GP Farms soldier's dogs back from Iraq It isn't the homecoming they expected. Fulfilling the final wish of their fallen soldier, a grieving family expects some comfort Friday when his two dogs arrive at their doorstep straight from the front lines in Baghdad. Pentagon rules forbid soldiers from keeping pets in Iraq, but it's common enough that a movement has sprung up in the Internet and elsewhere to bring them home. The World Society of the Protection of Animals even printed a brochure to explain how to navigate international bureaucracy and health regulations to do so. Another site, www.Baghdadpups.com, vows that "no buddy will be left behind." Mama and Boris weren... |
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