Eslinger and Smoke, reunited at last. Now it is Smoke’s turn to help rescue Eslinger. (Photo: Facebook)
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Military dogs suffer from PTSD
After combat and other dangerous situations, dogs can suffer emotional trauma just like soldiers.
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This is one of my favourite photos from the book. This man is amazing! And most definitely a looker!
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A sailor greets a dog at Charlton kennels. After the war, soldiers who fell in love with dogs while fighting in Europe hated leaving them behind, so the Blue Cross set up quarantine kennels to bring them back to the UK. In the second world war, these were reopened for the dogs of refugees fleeing Europe.
A dog being treated by vet and nurse. This dog was born on the battlefield and adopted by a French Howitzer battery. He was injured twice and treated by the Blue Cross vets who bandaged his lacerated ear. The charity treated over 10,000 dogs in its French hospitals during World War One.
During the conflict soldiers became incredibly attached to the animals with whom they experienced the terror and hardship of the battlefield. One army captain writing from Belgium in March 1916, on receipt of a Blue Cross veterinary chest, said: “Many things are sent to my men, but these are the first things I have ever got for my horses, and could they speak I suppose they’d express gratitude, and for the men I really believe all my chaps would rather have something for their “long-faced chums,” as they call them, than for themselves.”
Painting of a wounded dog done by Horace Vernet.
Many regiments from Napoleonic wars had their dogs following them. Some of them even became mascots or heroes.
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3rd Batt 5th Marines. In sangin,Helmand Afghanistan. Cpl Rivera and bingo after a long working day.
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The dog of slain Petty Officer Jon Tumilson refused to leave his side during the Navy SEAL’s funeral earlier this week in Rockford, Iowa. The heartbreaking photo taken by his cousin, Lisa Pembleton, shows Tumilson’s dog Hawkeye lying by the casket. (via The Daily Treat: Animal Planet)
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