Thursday, September 1, 2016

Information About Contract Working Dogs

By Amy Taylor


As man learned about the importance of having animals at their villages, the dog happened to be the luckiest to be domesticated first. The unique character of this species made them very reliable to the extent that they have been used as military dogs to help during wars. Their limited number made the defense department to consider getting informed about contract working dogs.

Many people have limited information concerning this kind of dogs. Understanding them better needs one to understand how they came to existence. As mentioned above, initially these military dogs have been the help of soldiers. When they became scarce, there was no time to train new dogs that is why it was opted to enter into contracts with companies for these helpful animals.

For the training to be effective to the extent that it matches of those in the military, there is much that these companies are expected to do. They need to be conversant with how to conduct rescues and even detection of explosives. More so, they need to be combative in nature. The moment a company attains this, they fly the animals to where they are needed.

The fact that the animal is day in day out with the military does not change the ownership from the company to the defense. It will remain to be a private property owned by the contracted company which has the sole duty to maintain its welfare. The soldiers will only be providing feeding and guiding them to their kennels after a mission.

Though viewed as heroes, this class of heroes undergo lots of sufferings. There has never been an agreement on how these sorrows can be dealt upon. The animals are treated as laborers where their sole duty is working without any rest including the two-week break enjoyed by all soldiers. More so, they are usually not included in the unit rotation as the others.

The worst is when the dog becomes incapacitated by either an injury, sickness or even age. The user has no obligation of ensuring the animals goes back to the owner. It lies upon the company to keep track of how their canines are progressing and undertake the role of transporting them back home whenever they cannot work anymore.

The training offered can at times be insufficient and as a result, the dog may be terrified by the war environment and opt to run away from their unit. In war, this is desertion that will be punishable by death yet in reality the animal was not to blame for this. If the company is not having any room for incapacitated animals, the canine will end up suffering in more misery.

However, a good note is that adopting a contract dog is easy than a military dog. This adoption has turned to be the only way to help these almost fallen soldiers. However, before settling to adopt, you need to be ready to train the animals into becoming domestic. This is important since the canine can be combative, hostile and aggressive something not good at home.




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