Soldier Begging For Dog Food For Deployed Dogs

Soldier Begging For Dog Food For Deployed Dogs

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.

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Hi Julie,

That's awful, poor things, but why the hell send the dogs out there with no food! I'm so angry I'm spitting blood.

Sorry if I have other stepped the mark but I am so angry.

Ian

I can't believe the forces who sent these poor creatures out there are not providing for them!!!!!!!

it makes you mad. I bet the soldiers are not starving

how awful poor dogs

My thought excatly :smt096

that is soo bad why arent the people that sent them looking after them with food ???

This makes me really angry why didnt they think about how the were going to get food for the dogs before it got to the stage where dogs are dying.
Mary