Open Post #9: Dogs!

       Dogs are a huge part of American society, and everyone knows someone who has a dog or has one or two or twelve of their own. However these dogs are much different than your average house dog. These bomb sniffing dogs are the most intelligent and important soldiers fighting on the front lines in the middle east and at home.  There were a couple of things that stood out to me.



1) How you can take dogs anywhere. Whether it be sky diving, fast roping from a helicopter, or anything in between, the dog will go with its soldier wherever.

2) How they are groomed from birth to become these types of bomb sniffing dogs. There are only a few places in the United States that breeds these types of dogs and from a couple months to two years old before they are deployed. They way these dogs pick up how to ignore outside distractions and focus on sniffing out the bomb is unbelievable.

3) It's cool to see that dogs get the same medical treatment as soldiers because they are just as valuable.



       I think the point of the clip was to show that dogs are just as important, if not more important, than human soldiers. They show the same emotion and loyalty to their handlers as a soldier would to someone in his squad. Pretty cool stuff.