Interesting piece on combat stress amongst bomb sniffing dogs in Afghanistan:
Next he let another Lab, Mag, give it a try. Mag was in rehab for a condition from which he tired quickly and lost mobility in his tail and legs. But Mag is an enthusiastic bomb hunter.
At Cpl. McCoy's command—"Back!"—Mag sprinted across the rocky desert, sniffing and searching in instant response to the signals. Soon he caught a whiff of something and dropped to his belly—directly on top of the spot where Cpl. McCoy had buried the C-4.
The corporal assured him he was a good dog and let him play fetch for a few minutes. "This is a constant game to them," says Cpl. McCoy. "They don't know it's life or death."
Except that they obviously know something’s going on. I mean, you couldn’t get our dog to lie on a load of buried plastic explosive for all the bonios in Afghanistan. Via.
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