Did anyone else see this appalling article about Peruvian soldiers training with live dogs as [link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$N5MF30LRHFCC1QFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2002/12/15/wperu15.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/12/15/ixworld] targets [/link] It's very disturbing.

darn links :( You'll have to cut and paste it but it's not for the faint hearted!

That is sickening I could'nt read it to the end

That has to be one of the most sickening things I have ever seen :-(

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Lara is right, it is very disturbing :-(

Absolutely barbaric...and these individuals are now considered "Men"????? I'm not shocked often, but this really sinks to a certain level of evil. Especially since the dog is considered and trained as a camp pet. It's just sick.
I wonder how many years this has been going on? No wonder they've been able to commit such atrocities against human beings after being encouraged to eliminate any sense of moral decency in the name of "manhood" and "esprit de corps". No concept of a respect for life at all. I hope this report and outrage sparks a complete investigation to ensure this is no longer occuring since the August ban. It probably moved underground :( :( :(

Weren't the British in Norway shooting pigs so that they could be operated to practice first aid and surgical techniques "in the field" ?

Christine

I have no idea, Christine. I doubt that is very recent, though. Where would the need be? Just go to any inner-city medical facility in the US...that's what our military does. It's an open invitation for European doctors to train also.
But I do think that there is a difference between shooting a pig for medical reasearch and tieing up a (friendly) dog to stab and cut out the heart to eat it just to be considered a 'man'. :( :(

Yes that did happen, Christine. But only to anaesthetised pigs, and the reason was so that surgeons could learn how to "fix" the wounds. Apparently the texture of pig's flesh is almost identical to that of man, and so the resulting wounds will be like those a soldier would suffer. Although it seems awfully cruel, the pigs were unconscious (not like that poor dog), and I personally feel that I would not like any son of mine to be treated for a type of wound that no surgeon had seen before. I'd much rather he trained on a pig.

This is horrendous. Pitiful, the way that dog is strung up.
Sick :(

I have just read it, makes you sick with what goes on in other countries, disgusting and barbaric are some of the more polite words i can come up with!!!

Just reading your replies is enough of me :( Julieann

Me too Julieann - passing on this one - I'll be off blubbering - again!:( Julie:(

oh god - i'm not a squeamish person - but that is horrific

I don't know what to say. This is one of the most barbaric things I have ever seen.

This is the Peruvian Embassy web-site - perhpas we should all write to them showing our disgust. I already have.

here

Pam n the boys

When I read it in the Sunday Telegraph first thing I nearly brought back my breakfast, and I'm not usually terribly squeamish. That was one of the worst, most horrendously evil things I have ever seen. It makes me weep to think of that poor dog's terror and agony. Even being strung out like that would have been torture - their joints don't do that naturally. How can people do this?

I feel absolutely sick to the stomach - give me five minutes with those
evil b*******

I would love to tie them up helpless and let the dogs loose on them!

Trouble is, Deary, most dogs are far too nice to do anything.