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What do you mean by "you can buy an elite war dog"?
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I don't find the website anymore, I've read it somewhere ...
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Training police dogs costs ~$30-60k IIRC.
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You just can't walk up to a store any buy trained guard/police dogs. They're provided to terminally ill people. (Probably in Britain but I'm sure elsewhere too).
Google it and you'll find the story.
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notageek
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Wasn't there a documentary about how the dogs that served in Vietnam weren't allowed back into US because of quarantine regulations? (And that they were left to die in cages across Vietnam).
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| notageek wrote: | You just can't walk up to a store any buy trained guard/police dogs. They're provided to terminally ill people. (Probably in Britain but I'm sure elsewhere too).
Google it and you'll find the story. |
There is a difference between therapy dogs, medical alert dogs, handicap assistance dogs, guard dogs, police dogs and "elite war dogs".
A cancer patient needs an aging terrier who likes to snuggle, not a German Shepherd who leaps off the bed every time one of the nurses had kabobs or hummus at lunch and starts ripping arms off.
We actually have a law that protects "retired" military working dogs. People can adopt them, but they are very carefully selected from among many applicants. The military has a farm-like facility at Lackand AFB where those dogs which aren't suitable for adoption go and are well-cared-for for the rest of their lives.
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notageek
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Those are the dogs, which are converted to medical assist dogs. There's a certain age to be a soldier. I'm sure you're aware of that.
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| Quote: | | Is this dog thinking, "Wooooooooo!", or is it thinking, "Dude, why are you making me do this?" |
I guess he sometimes thinks "Wooooooooo" and sometimes "wtf, wtf, wtf" like a human soldier 
| Quote: | | Wasn't there a documentary about how the dogs that served in Vietnam weren't allowed back into US because of quarantine regulations? (And that they were left to die in cages across Vietnam). |
yes, but the Vietnam war was the only war in which the dogs weren't allowed to come back (I think many of them were euthanized or assigned to the south Vietnamese army, but I guess the "left to die in cages across Vietnam is maybe more realistic") (one of the many barbaric things in this war... Ok, maybe every war is nearly equal in brutality, I don't know...)
| Quote: | | A cancer patient needs an aging terrier who likes to snuggle, not a German Shepherd who leaps off the bed every time one of the nurses had kabobs or hummus at lunch and starts ripping arms off. |
| Quote: | | We actually have a law that protects "retired" military working dogs. People can adopt them, but they are very carefully selected from among many applicants. The military has a farm-like facility at Lackand AFB where those dogs which aren't suitable for adoption go and are well-cared-for for the rest of their lives. |
yes, I believe Clinton signed this law in the year 2000.
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| notageek wrote: | | You just can't walk up to a store any buy trained guard/police dogs. |
Most don't operate out of stores. If I had money, I could walk up to a trainer and have him train my dog (well, a dog, I doubt my specific one :).
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| LoTeK wrote: | | yes, I believe Clinton signed this law in the year 2000. |
I think it was just recently signed, although there have been such policies in effect for some time.
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