{"id":749559,"date":"2017-12-15T12:52:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T12:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=749559"},"modified":"2017-12-15T12:52:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T12:52:56","slug":"war-dogs-on-death-row-veteran-dogs-who-saved-thousands-of-lives-while-on-duty-in-afghanistan-to-be-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=749559","title":{"rendered":"WAR DOGS ON DEATH ROW: Veteran dogs who saved thousands of lives while on duty in Afghanistan to be killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RACHEL DALE &amp; ANDY JEHRING:<\/strong> <em>\u2018Two Army dogs which helped save thousands of lives while on duty in Afghanistan will be put down next week, be\u00adcause Top Brass say they can\u2019t be re-homed. Belgian shepherds Kevin and Dazz sniffed out deadly IEDs on missions in Helmand Province before being retired\u2026 The two Belgian Shepherds, retired after dozens of life-saving missions as specially-trained search dogs in Afghanistan, are due to be put down next week after chiefs ruled they can\u2019t be re-homed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Former soldiers and handlers who worked with the pair \u2014 and with an ex-police hound named Driver which is also doomed to die \u2014 have written to the commanding officer at the Defence Animal Centre in Melton Mowbray, Leics\u2026 One angry handler said as a rescue campaign began: \u201cWe\u2019ll do anything to save them.\u201d [Another] distraught handler has slammed the decision to destroy Army dogs Kevin and Dazz \u2014 saying: \u201cThis is such a cruel way to treat these animals that have given us so much\u201d\u2026 But despite experienced hand\u00adlers offering to take them, Army chiefs are standing firm, saying they aren\u2019t safe to be given new homes\u2019.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/5039355\/hero-army-dogs-face-being-put-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">SOURCE\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UU7WghMKxN8\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RACHEL DALE &amp; ANDY JEHRING: \u2018Two Army dogs which helped save thousands of lives while on duty in Afghanistan will be put down next week, be\u00adcause Top Brass say they can\u2019t be re-homed. Belgian shepherds Kevin and Dazz sniffed out deadly IEDs on missions in Helmand Province before being retired\u2026 The two Belgian Shepherds, retired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[27,30,37],"class_list":["post-749559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749561,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749559\/revisions\/749561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/749560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}