Mental Illness and Animals

[Catherine]

I have a problem with putting the military dogs to sleep. If we can't fix them then we should stop using them in the military. I think we owe it to these four legged soldiers to mend them and give them happy lives. Maybe they will have to built a dog veterans home where they can be cared for.

If we allow them even once to put down a PTSD dog, then all the rest will die. In fact they will probably stop even bringing them home. They will shoot them on the spot and discard them like other broken equipment.

It is too convenient to get rid of a problem before anyone else knows there is a problem. Dead dogs in a foreign country don't get the same sympathy as a "wounded" soldier dog at home.