Science & Technology

Military dogs show signs of combat stress

By T.K. Randall
December 2, 2011 ·  4 comments

Image Credit: CC 2.0 P.T. Brent It's easy to focus on the men and women who are deployed to places like Iraq and Afghanistan and return home battered in ways most of us will never comprehend, but there are other soldiers whose care is a lot more difficult due to the fact that they cannot speak. Fifty bomb sniffer dogs have died in the line of duty since 2005 and 500 are trained every year to be sent over. Of those, 5% suffer from PTSD and only one veterinary clinic in the whole country deals with canine PTSD.

Source: New York Times | Comments (4)

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