Iraqi Dogs Have Plenty Of Food After Response To Soldier's Plea

[sherilocks]

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POSTED: 11:02 am EST January 10, 2005

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"The dogs are starving and urgently need dry dog food," Cook wrote in a Dec. 28 e-mail that said the Iraqi Interior Ministry's only bomb-sniffing police dogs were eating table scraps and garbage.

The response to the canine crisis has been overwhelming: Offers of help poured in from New Hampshire, Florida, Texas, Ohio and New York. One sports gambling handicapper alone ponied up $5,000.

Now, about 30,000 pounds of dog food is on its way to the Middle East to feed a unit of starving Iraqi canines.

Hill's Pet Nutrition has arranged for a continuous, complimentary supply of its Science Diet dog food to be made available at an Army and Air Force Exchange Service site near Baghdad, company official Joyce Waida said Friday.

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http://www.local6.com/news/4067041/detail.html

[Southpaw Bookworm]

1. The Iraqi people, on the other hand, . . . n/t

[soup]

2. Wow, that was fast.

Thanks for sharing the good news.

[Nordmadr]

3. Why Don't they

find some food for the dogs that keep munching on all the corpses that are always lying around?

[VegasWolf]

4. I guess they need a little dry food to go with all that wet food to

balance their diets.

[Massachusetts]

6. Woof!

[Lorien]

5. That's good news

I wrote to the Artemis company when I read that story (maker of holistic dog food). Now if we could just find a company that wants to promote itself by sending armor for those Humvees....

[NYC]

7. Thanks for reporting this.

We need some good news occasionally.

[oneold1-4u]

8. Truth is-

Many details of military personel have been sent out for the purpose of ridding the towns and countryside of thousands of stray dogs that move in quickly to devour humans and will often even attack children.
It seems some soft hearted soldier thought throwing a few of these a "bone" (dry dog food)would lessen the problem, but fed dogs seem to create more dogs.
We are already feeding thousands of the Iraqi and that is OK but we don't even know how many are insurgents. Perhaps if we controlled more of the nice stuff, the nice would take care of the not nice. Its a sure thing that the insurgents collect food, medicine, water, and other necessities and then disperse them to people, like they are the ones being nice!

[daleo]

9. Invading, occupying and killing 100,000 foreigners is just not nice

And you can't persuade them that it is. No matter how stupid you think they are.

[flobee1kenobi]

10. As it is Military dogs

I can't help notice one group that is absent
...guess they had to use the dog food money to stop people whining about the armor

[heidler1]

11. I suspect that there are more people that love dogs than love people.

[Gloria]

12. Science Diet isn't the greatest...but I guess it's better than

nothing.

[truthisfreedom]

13. my cat dug that fatty coating when i used to feed it to him.

it used to be pretty highly touted by my old vet. not anymore, though.

[egoprofit]

14. the best news regarding iraq yet

wow progress, i can't believe it. those animals deserve it.

[Piperay]

15. At last some good news

comes out of Iraq for a change.

[ally_sc]

16. yeah...at least dogs are fed...hooray n/t

[Catchawave]

17. Thanks for all the great news ! -nt