Cats, yes. Dogs generally wanted to bite our faces off.
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Thanks Rob, I appreciate it.
Cheers,
Mario
I adopted two cats in Iraq. Turns out I should not have been feeding them canned chicken and real milk. Despite my best efforts they didn’t make it.
Dogs did not like us. They don’t look nealy as vicious as they were. One of my worst moments in Iraq was getting caught out in the open by them. Shooting bad people is one thing. But dogs? Thankfully it didn’t come to that.
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I say sure why not!
In Bosnia in ‘97, we had a puppy at our checkpoint everyday for almost the entire deployment. There was little to no shooting at the time; occasionally a mine going off but that was it, so a different situation than Iraq obviously.
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We’ve got a lot of our troops adopting dogs and cats from gaza
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@18bravo Know what you mean about the dogs, we were at an old Iraqi AF base up near the Iran border that was overrun with them (we tagged it Dogtown), they were vicious. Although if they encountered you as puppies they were okay. My platoon had a puppy that adopted us when we spent a week in Babylon (al Hayy currently), we inherited her from 3/4. She got used to riding in the LAV’s with us, she ate what we ate, although she refused to eat Country Craptain Chicken…go figure. Cool thing about her was she used to bark when the locals came around, but not other Marines. We passed her onto the Polish Motor Rifle Battalion that relieved us.
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We had a dog in our fob/cop in Balod that hated the locals. We even named him the unit that came in to relieve us, and the new CO had him put down.
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What a jackass. For putting any dog down who didn’t need it. But one that barks at locals is a plus.
While I was in Rabiah we had a team dog for a while. Two of our young E6s fought over its affection constantly. It was named after the MSR on which it was found. I can’t rememer the name but I’m pretty sure it began with a “C.” Ironically the dog was struck by a vehicle on the same MSR and killed.
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Dude, that mfer was with a 1bn 8th inf 4th Id. This was when I was on the army side of my career. He was the captain caught up in the war crime deal with zip tieing hadjis and throwing them in Tigris with them washing up in the hydro damn filters downstream. the guy who ordered the dog put down. he was a great warning, but I heard after that guy started pulling his crap that they were hit all the time.
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