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[The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment] K-9 PTSD? Some vets say dogs stressed by war, too | The Daily ...: In this photo taken Thursday, July 29, 2010, Gina plays with a ball at the kennel at at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo. Gina was a playful 2-year-old German shepherd when she went to Iraq as a highly trained bomb-sniffing dog with the U.S. military, but months of door-to-door searches and noisy explosions left her cowering and fearful.

[Videogum] U.S. Military Dogs Deployed In Iraq Now Suffering From Post ...: In World War 2: Worlder Warer, the Soviets (?) trained their dogs to run under tanks, and then would attach bombs to them, wait for them to run under enemy tanks and then explode the dog. Next time a canine starts complaining about doing their duty, maybe they should be reminded of how much worse it used to be.

[Army Times - News] Military dogs traumatized by stress of war - Army News, news from ...: Haynes and other handlers coaxed Gina on walks, sending someone ahead to pass out treats for bystanders to give her. They got her over her fear of walking through doors by stationing someone she knew on the other side to reward her with pats and play.

[Staten Island Real-Time News] Gina, a 2-year-old military dog comes home from Iraq traumatized ...: It is wrenching beyond belief that the media is preoccupied with a cute little dog story, when in fact, so many of our brave men in uniform are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan in body bags; and if not in body bags, they are returning just as, if even more, traumatized than the little dog named Gina.

[ONTD_Political] ontd_political: Military dog comes home from Iraq traumatized: I used to love Caesar, but after working with dog trainers and hearing their absolutely seething hatred of him, my love has slowly crumbled and died :( He uses outdated methods that are based on negative reinforcement a lot (going SH! and poking them) instead of positive reinforcement, and he heavily edits the episodes so that it looks like he does a lot more in a really short amount of time.

[Blue Star Chronicles] Gina: Army Dog with PTSD Making Outstanding Progress (Video ...: [...] Gina: Army Dog with PTSD Making Outstanding Progress (Video)Blue Star Chronicles (blog)Gina is a highly trained bomb-sniffing dog with the military who is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). …Army dogs being treated for post-traumatic stress disorderMirror.co.ukDog Gina PTSD –

[Raw Story] Military dog comes home from Iraq traumatized | Raw Story: I am from the Grateful Dead era, my favorite GD song is "Friend of the Devil." Political correctness is promulgated over at the group think division down in Hell where you disco reality away at the Stygian Hue dance club with other mind altered half wits whose shell shocked adopted dogs of war whimper with every driving beat of the techno music. I don't want you to consider me a racist but it is what I expect from the shallow wildebeest mentality of your particular heard.

[Life With Dogs] War Dogs and PTSD » Life With Dogs: Eventually, she may be able to return to the kind of hazardous duty she did in Iraq, but that’s at least a year away, Haynes said. “We’re not planning on doing it anytime in the near future because obviously, we don’t want to mess up everything we’ve already fixed,”

[Petside Blog - Dog & Cat News and Fun Stories] Military Dog Suffers Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | Blogs about ...: In war-torn areas like Iraq and Afghanistan, countless servicemen and women face harrowing situations and feel adrenaline-rushing terror on a daily basis. Sadly, this violence isn't reserved for the battlefields, and the memories often accompany soldiers home.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » No Newt is good Newt: In the spring and summer of 2003, with Baghdad looted and Iraq’s infrastructure disintegrating and Iraqis losing patience and the insurgency just beginning, around the Republican Palace, where the Americans of the Coalition Provisional Authority were trying to bring some order to Iraq, the name Mitch Daniels was often mentioned, without much love. C.P.A.

[The Burning Platform] WAR IS COMING - The Burning Platform, financial collapse ...: One thing that drew my attention to this possibility again at this time is not what’s going on in Gaza but a friend of mine who had just been to a conference with an ex-director of the CIA, some high FBI officials, a whole bunch of defense department wonks, and similar types from Israel. He reports that all those spooks and military types really think Israel is going to attack Iran.

[A Friendly Letter, The Blog.] A Friendly Letter, The Blog. » Blog Archive » AFSC & Friends IV: A ...: Such an agenda will doubtless face lots of internal opposition, from forces dedicated to protecting old turf and keeping AFSC more in tune with the latest movement trends than with a bunch of bourgeois Quakers. But such forces should be seriously in question already, and if AFSC is to survive, the old ways are overdue for an even more fundamental shakeup than they’ve had so far.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Open Thread: I never put dog or cat poop into the compost pile. On a related note, a large, commercial composting operation near me composts just about anything that is not inorganic. When a barn fire killed 90 cows, they even composted the remains. .... Yes, the economy was better under Clinton, but was that a result of (a) higher tax rates for the rich or (b) no war in Iraq, no war in Afghanistan, no 9/11 attacks, no financial market implosion, no real estate market collapse, ...

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[Colonel6's Blog] K-9 PTSD? Some vets say dogs stressed by war, too « Colonel6's Blog: But Haynes said they’re careful not to let their affection interfere with good training. Treating Gina like a human ”” for example, comforting her when she’s frightened ”” can leave her thinking that her handler is pleased when she’s afraid.

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