Soldier Begging For Dog Food For Deployed Dogs
 

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Commander Says Dogs Live Off Scraps And Garbage

POSTED: 2:58 pm EST January 5, 2005

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 seems like an emergency situation," Diana Paivanas, a Henderson pet-care provider and Cook's friend, told the Review-Journal. "Something needs to be done now to save these dogs."

Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., a veterinarian, directed a legislative aide to contact an Army liaison to investigate, a spokesman for the senator said. But when contacted Wednesday, his office said they were unsure where to send donations and that they are looking into it.

Military officials at the Combined Press Information Center in Baghdad did not immediately respond to the newspaper's request for information about the food supply for U.S. canines in Iraq.

Paivanas said she found it costs about $50 to mail a 30-pound bag of dog food to Cook.

Henderson Veterinarian Terry Muratore estimated that each of the 13 working dogs would consume a 40 pounds or more of dry food per month.

"If securing the country entails having security dogs that are healthy, then we should do that," Muratore said. "Surely there's space on a C-130 to get a pallet of dog food over there."

If you would like to help feed the dogs, you may send checks to the Las Vegas Valley Humane Society. They are working with several companies to ship food to the animals as soon as possible.

"PetSmart has donated a pallet of food, and we hope PetCo will do the same," Judith Ruiz, president of the Las Vegas Valley Humane Society said.

Ruiz said several companies have donated food and that with the money, the Humane Society will be able to buy more dog food at a discounted rate and will also pay for shipping to Iraq.

"All funds will go directly for the animals," Ruiz said.

The Humane Society is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization. So your donation will be tax deductible.

Send donations to:

Las Vegas Valley Humane Society
Funds For Dogs In Iraq
2250 E. Tropicana
Suite 19
Las Vegas, NV 89119


Make checks payable to the Las Vegas Valley Humane Society. The group asks that you indicate in a letter or on the check that you want your donation to go to the dogs in Iraq.

The US Government cant afford to feed 12 dogs??

That fuckin really chaps my ass !! wtf ..your telling me trained dogs are dying in iraq from a lack of food? Feed em the bones of the dead insurgents if need be.im gonna email Dan abrahms form MSNBC and fill him in on this travesty...im sure he will step up to the plate and things will get done :2 cents:

Doesn't surprise me... the government was trying to make some of the soldiers over there pay back for their meals until the media got wind and a big stink arose. :(

Lets deploy them but not feed them. Makes a lot of sense.

OMG that really sucks, should at least feed them from the table fro now.........

:(

Damn... a small $10k donation compared to what a human needs, would do tons for dogs... I hope someone else steps up and also donates atleast $1k-$5k..

might sound dumb but i just emailed dan abrams of msnbc news"abrams report" hes a stand up guy and i hope he pulls through on this 1 for the dogs sake

That's really sad! And dogs save so many soldiers lives too!!

I am sure they are. But dogs need that dry food. So many problems can occur long term from table scraps and shit. I guess they didn't give this much thought before putting these dogs to work.

oh my god

this makes me so mad

fucking send the dogs some food!!!!!!!! they will save soldier's lives!!!!!!!


what a crock of shit

You would think Purina would step up imagine the marketing they would get from it?

MAYBE SLEAZY CAN SPARE SOME EXTRA DOG FOOD HE SEEMS TO HAVE ENOUGH FOR HIMSELF http://www.hjorleifson.com/me/eating.jpg

The fire $200k TOW missiles at a single terrorist with AK-47 (who escaped btw) but can't afford dog food.

Idiots.

the government can invest, donate, and just spend so much money but not feed some dogs? damn thats sick.

That's exactly the problem. Lack of logistical planning on the part of the commander. It's his responsibility to see that supplies for his unit are in place before deployment begins.

grind up tsunimi bodys

(ok that was horrible but someone was going to say it)

its a SCAM!
its another phoney charity to scan you out of your money.

Send donations to:

Las Vegas Valley Humane Society
Funds For Dogs In Iraq
2250 E. Tropicana
Suite 19
Las Vegas, NV 89119

get fucken clue!

The firing of a $200k TOW missle looks better on TV and sells more advertising than a starving dog.


;)

J.

Get a fucking spell checker...

Here's the website for the Las Vegas Valley Humane Society, if its a scam, its not the city to be running any military scams in with Nellis AFB in town.

I'm not suprised the dogs are starving, and I don't want this thread to degenerate into an anti-Bush tirade, but our leaders and military were sure that as soon as we 'liberated' the people of Iraq from Saddam that we'd all be seen as heros, kissing our men and women on both cheeks, and naming their kids after George Bush.

Less planning went into what happens after taking Iraq, than goes on for an Orange County Bar Mitzvah. The logistics are all fucked up, Humvees don't have the armor, Marines are begging strangers on the Internet for canned food and flashlights, and $10,000 bomb detection dogs are starving from lack of quality food. :mad:

thats some fucked up shit

This piece of shit war continues to get even uglier :(