It is with shock and horror that I write this blog. Please do not think that I care more for this dog than for the 4,000 soldiers that have died in Iraq since the war began. However, this seems so...cruel, so completely pointless, so inhumane that I really am having a hard time believing it is happening. Soldiers make a huge sacrifice in Iraq everyday - and this seems completely unnecessary.

You can read the story for yourself here, but basically it looks like a soldier adopted a dog in the US and it was being sent to the SPCA to be shipped home to her parents when the soldier's commanding officers confiscated the dog and are going to hold it for execution. The outrage is that this dog has served as a "pet therapist" of sorts to the victim (i.e., the soldier) and to rip him away from her to face death is beyond pointless, cruel, pitiless and stupid. If there were something we could do, some petition to sign, I would have posted the link. But there isn't. I feel a terrible loss, not because of the "poor dog" but because the military is treating it's wounded with such incredible insensitivity, disrespect, and arrogance. How can we do something like this to someone who has sacrificed already so much for this country?