Legislation Facilitates Adoption Of Military Dogs By Their Battlefield Handlers

Posted by | November 30, 2015 21:00 | Filed under: War & Peace

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Military dogs that bond with their handlers overseas will have an easier time coming to the U.S.

“We do not know the full story of what has happened to military dogs left overseas after retirement,” said Mark Stubis, spokesman for the American Humane Association. “In some cases they’ve been kept in kennels for indeterminate lengths of time until someone wanted them. In the best cases, some have been adopted by U.S. military personnel living abroad. In others, they were adopted by local people and, we have heard, in some cases, abused.”

Now Congress has stepped in. Tucked inside the 2016 Defense Department budget bill signed by President Obama is a new law that directs the military to bring home all working dogs stateside if they are being retired.

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7 responses to Legislation Facilitates Adoption Of Military Dogs By Their Battlefield Handlers

  1. nola878 November 30th, 2015 at 21:40

    A little bit of good news amongst all the bad recently.

    Good work, Congress (never thought I’d say that again in my lifetime!)

  2. Gina Bousquet November 30th, 2015 at 21:51

    That’s really good news! :)

  3. rg9rts December 1st, 2015 at 00:36

    I guess they were not expendable after all

  4. tracey marie December 1st, 2015 at 06:39

    This is a brilliant law!

  5. Gindy51 December 1st, 2015 at 07:00

    And just maybe they were treated like the military dogs during the Vietnam war…. http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/02/12/war.dogs/

  6. Suzanne McFly December 1st, 2015 at 07:05

    Only took 14 years for this common sense legislation but I am glad they finally did it.

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