These are just great! Enjoy!
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A military working dog outfitted with its own equipment and light heads up the steps of a building in this undated handout image from a company which manufactures a range of specialized gear that includes high-tech canine flak jackets and tactical body armor. The equipment provides real time video feedback and night vision capabilities. (K9 Storm Inc./Handout/Reuters)
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U.S. Military Member Mike Forsythe and his dog Cara break the world record for "highest man/dog parachute deployment" by jumping from 30,100 feet in this undated image released by a company which manufactures equipment for military dogs. (K9 Storm Inc./Handout/Reuters)
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A U.S. Army soldier with the 10th Special Forces Group and his military working dog jump off the ramp of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment during water training over the Gulf of Mexico March 1. (Manuel J. Martinez/U.S. Air Force/Handout/Reuters)
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Staff Sgt. Erick Martinez, a military dog handler, carries his dog Argo II on March 4 during an exercise at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. (Allen Stokes/U.S. Air Force/Handout/Reuters)
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A Navy SEAL platoon performs a land warfare demonstration at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek - Fort Story in Virginia July 17, 2010. Any dog that participated in the US mission to find Osama bin Laden in Pakistan would have been a member of an elite corps of canines with little relation to common family pets, experts say. (Robert J. Fluegel/AFP/Getty Images)
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7Cesar Millan, better known as the dog whisperer, works with a dog from the Police K-9 unit during a visit to Fort Hood, Texas on April 21. Millan also checks the training and behavior of some of the dogs as he wears a training bite suit. (Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman/AP)
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An Indian army dog walks a metal beam during an event at the Army School in Nagrota, India April 26. (Channi Anand/AP)
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Kristen Hartness Law with Canine for Disabled Kids demonstrates on February 24 how she uses Bronson, a four-year old smooth coat Collie, for support during a demonstration at Northeastern University in Boston where engineering students watched and measured the service dogs and interviewed their handlers in order to develop new harnesses and equipment for canines. (Essdras M Suarez/Globe Staff)
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Easy the dog speeds on a park path during the second week of almost daily protests by animal rights activists outside the parliament building in Bucharest, Romania April 19.(Vadim Ghirda/AP)
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An abandoned dog pauses within the exclusion zone, about 6km away from the stricken Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, on April 12 in Futaba Town, Japan. (Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images)
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A dog peers through its enclosure at the Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter in Tuscaloosa. A constant flow of people searching for their lost animals following a tornado visit the shelter each day. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Gosh I miss my dog.
Great pics Dave! I'm really impressed by the armed forces canines (& soldiers of the 2-legged variety of course)
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Those are great.
Here is my Roxy when she was just a little pup. I don't think that she would like sky diving, but she might want to bite Cesar!
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That's inspiring and all, but there are a lot of dead beat dogs out there too:
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;D
sac
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
[beer]
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The local 24 Hour Vet Hospital where I take my four-legged pals volunteered their staff and services after 9/11
to attend to the dogs injured while working in the ruins of the Trade Center
They have a large wall in their waiting room that has the photos of those dogs with their handlers
It is as sad a collage, as it is beautiful.....
cool pics! but i bet the PETA's of the world would get bent about the pictures of the military working dogs.
also, in the helicopter ramp pic, the dog looks like it was thrown/dragged/pushed, based on its somewhat graceless form.
Quote from: spolic on May 18, 2011, 03:18:11 PM
Those are great.
Here is my Roxy when she was just a little pup. I don't think that she would like sky diving, but she might want to bite Cesar!
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Big dog in a little body...... Jack Russell are so great and intense.
Nice dog your Roxy Spolic! Did she learn some tricks?
Oh yeah she is a big dog in a little body, but most of the time she is super mellow (kind of like her owners.) She can sit, stay, leave it, drop it, jump up, hi-5 and roll over. She does require loads of attention.
PETA schmeata
Quote from: herm on May 19, 2011, 04:55:58 AMalso, in the helicopter ramp pic, the dog looks like it was thrown/dragged/pushed, based on its somewhat graceless form.
You've never seen my Rott chase a ball, go down steep steps, or jump on the bed. She's about as graceful as Lindsay Lohan on stilts.
Quote from: Artful on May 19, 2011, 09:13:15 AM
You've never seen my Rott chase a ball, go down steep steps, or jump on the bed. She's about as graceful as Lindsay Lohan on stilts.
all three of my rotties have been pretty graceless too, but i stand by my opinion. in fact, i bet its pretty hard to get any dog to willingly jump out of the back of a hovering aircraft.
and before anyone accuses me of worrying too much about the animals in those pictures......dont. my comment about PETA was just a comment on a certain segment of our society.
I'll respectfully disagree. I had a golden retriever that I had trained on an invisible fence. He was stubborn and had really dense fur so he had the "bad bog" collar (essentially a car battery set to stun).
He was great with it except for when I would leave in the morning for work. You could watch him brace himself, make a dash for it, jump, wince and yelp, then land on the other side.
You train a dog to be loyal, there isn't much they won't do to be with you.
Regardless, that's a touching thing to see. That sort of loyalty is priceless.
Quote from: herm on May 19, 2011, 10:49:57 AM
i bet its pretty hard to get any dog to willingly jump out of the back of a hovering aircraft.
Nah, just throw the ball
some dogs just have more style than others.
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Quote from: SacDuc on May 18, 2011, 03:36:44 PM
That's inspiring and all, but there are a lot of dead beat dogs out there too:
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;D
sac
Reminds me of one of YOUR deadbeat pooches.
Quote from: spolic on May 19, 2011, 01:15:34 PM
some dogs just have more style than others.
True Dat
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw
My wife's friend made a small documentary on the Wounded warrior project. One thing really got to me and stuck in my heart was there was a young veteran who has a dog that is there to wake him up out of his nightmares. The dog is trained to wake him up and put his paws on the guys chest comforting him throughout the night. I think more people need to hear stories like this to see what these young soldiers have been through. It is really make the beast with two backsed up. It is also amazing how smart these dogs are and what they are capable of trained by the right hands.
Seeing my dog the day I got back from Afghanistan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysKAVyXi0J4#normal)
Oh that's soo awesome. I love that.
Just makes you feel all "wow" inside. [thumbsup] [thumbsup]
that was awesome
I just watched that again - that makes me smile every time. Wow.
Is that really you and your dog? If it is, thanks for what you do. [thumbsup]
No that's not me.
I never felt the need to serve until I was too old and wrapped up in other things to do it
:-\
Quote from: Monsterlover on May 20, 2011, 11:21:50 AM
No that's not me.
I never felt the need to serve until I was too old and wrapped up in other things to do it
:-\
Ok - we'll great video then! [thumbsup]
That "thanks for what you do" then goes out to all of our friends and loved ones serving and especially those who find themselves in harms way on a daily basis.
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