U.S DOG CORPS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13670, 18 June 1942, Page 6

U.S DOG CORPS

m.’Tv \ T 1 Ar 'MY c. ( ’ KXT Rhs Pr SAB ° T Saboteurs wifi h n ™ e netting „ eap ;; a »n. : , Ply centres if ° h A ~ d 0 "*th it. auJV?**' Wlll ' I ' oll0 ' v ing cm JT" • < . a « offer by Do- : 0f Xo ’ 590 MadCn'';./' 1 ' Canmes to aid , Mu " ' n . ounced recentlr, ' > P WU Science Monitor■ General Edmund ok . the Quartermasters r° ' Cept tbe Am unit ot ? v m training. it Was ' ; In all the depots th! ; vl ‘ ere hide and escape the eve- ' ■ alert sentry,” dent ot Do ss tw "ot. - f euti "s m bcarine trained dogs.” MrCaerar, director .to,. can Kennel Club and the Westminster Kennel cCA a Public appeal' for ; dogs. He said the organij? formed as a result of the u, dog owners to contribute m • effort. The dogs will he trained - - with any sentry having ' leash, remaining at heel. V when called in spite of all , tions. and, most important, r warning through either a ‘ bark when any stranger ’.' within range of their hearb'! scent. This is the first lime in this ecu. try that such wide recognition been given dogs for their usefulness. Some experimenting i-.i done in the last war, but i: *■. not particularly satisfactory, y. breeders said this was because i;. Army recruited its dogs from as, offs at animal shelters. Furthera;-; they hold training was left too ml in the hands fo those who bt nothing about’ it. When the American Expeditious Force reached Europe in the lit war, it had to enlist dogs from th British and French armies and developed a competent dog cor;; its own.