Man's Best Friend - Pics you have to see!

[Monster Dave]

These are just great! Enjoy!


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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


An Indian army dog walks a metal beam during an event at the Army School in Nagrota, India April 26. (Channi Anand/AP)


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)


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)


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)


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.

[AJ]

Great pics Dave!  I'm really impressed by the armed forces canines (& soldiers of the 2-legged variety of course)

[spolic]

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!

[SacDuc]

That's inspiring and all, but there are a lot of dead beat dogs out there too:









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[AJ]

   

[RAT900]

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.....

[herm]

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.

[Spck31]

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!

Big dog in a little body...... Jack Russell are so great and intense.
Nice dog your Roxy Spolic! Did she learn some tricks?

[spolic]

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

[Artful]

also, 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.

[herm]

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.

[Artful]

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.

[Monster Dave]

Regardless, that's a touching thing to see. That sort of loyalty is priceless.

[Mother]

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

[spolic]

some dogs just have more style than others.