Honor your dog on Memorial Day too!!!

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Happy Memorial Day everyone! Regardless of our political stance we must always honor the heroic work our service men and women have done for us and we must remember with dignity those that have lost their lives for our country.

Today I thought that there's got to be information on patriotic dogs that have served our country in some way and I came across this blog.

For the most part we always hear about human soldiers putting their lives at risk but you never hear about the estimated 2,300 working dogs that can do things that humans can't.

Here's an exerpt from an article on military dogs.

With an acute sense of smell five to 10 times stronger than a human's, working dogs are able to detect minute traces of explosives or drugs and alert their handlers of their presence, Rolfe explained.

But at the same time, dogs have ability to inflict fear in an aggressor in a way a human -- even if armed -- often can't, and will defend their handlers to the end. "People see a dog and don't want to mess with it," said Staff Sgt. Andrew Mier, a military working dog trainer who has deployed to Southwest Asia three times as a handler -- twice to Saudi Arabia and once to Qatar. "A dog creates a strong psychological deterrent."

Read the entire article. It's an eyeopener as to what military dogs do for our country. The Dog Tags program is also a testament as to what dogs are doing for our disabled vets.

And here's something on wartime cats. I found another article on wartime cats but it was too disturbing to post here. Not sure if we have one here in the states but I also found this wikipedia link to a war memorial for animals in the UK.