Critter News
AUGUST 13, 2009
The Marines also claim that using live pigs and inflicting wounds on them is the only way to approximate real-life situations in combat. It's the best way to train medical personnel. They claim the animals are asleep during the procedures and feel no pain. Read and decide for yourself.
Critter News
APRIL 19, 2012
The Coast Guard is defending its practice of using live animals in its combat medical training after an activist group released a video on Wednesday of a goat’s legs being removed with tree trimmers during what it said was training for agency personnel. The courses do involve “live tissue training using live animals,” Lt.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
The wound was also very contaminated with dirt and debris. Though he had little orthopedic training, the Soviet Union’s Dr. Gavril Ilizarov was sent to care for injured Russian soldiers in Siberia in the 1950s, and invented the external fixator as a way to repair misaligned fractures and stabilize bones post-surgery.
Critter News
JULY 21, 2009
My bill will help train a statistically significant number of dogs to measure the benefits to veterans with physical and emotional wounds. Al Franken (suck on that Bill O'Reilly) has introduced a bill to increase the number of service dogs for vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 10, 2010
The DDF will be raising $20,000 for the training and care of a service dog (including medical bills, training and food) which will be donated to one lucky war vet from the FSD group. FSD rescues dogs from shelters and custom trains each dog to assist a person with a disability.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
They sniff out bombs that would harm our troops; they comfort soldiers on the battlefield and veterans back home; they search for the wounded after an attack; and sometimes, they have the grim task of finding the fallen, bringing closure to families and friends in the most trying of times,” she said.
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 26, 2012
Many organizations exist throughout the United Kingdom to assist farriers and people desiring to be farriers to become registered and remain well educated through classes, training and competitions. Chronic pain in horses can develop from other conditions such as osteochondrosis, degenerative joint disease, or from wounds and infection.
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