Melodi
Disaster Cat
Further comment on the dogs let loose in Kabul airport. It is looking more and more likely that some of the dogs were from American contractors who did just abandon them. Charlotte was known to have made at least one trip into Taliban-occupied territory to round them up and collect them - the Taliban had already cut off their noses. Some of them got out with Pen and some are now lost again waiting to be shot or tortured to death since they were simply let go at the airport.
Other dogs were probably those of Afghan handlers attached to US units but not covered by them (as stated in the article) and some of the dogs would have been rescued street dogs already tamed, vetted, neutered, or spayed.
These rescues routinely sent dogs to the West for rehoming often with veterans groups or even police stations (working dogs). The vets and their caretakers know what the rules for transport to Europe and North America are and that was why the UK "minister" who at first said the animals might be destroyed because they were "disease-ridden" (Pen's animals) were ridiculous.
UK vets have confirmed all the animals are healthy and had their shots, dewormers, and everything. They still have to be in quarantine of course, but they are perfectly healthy.
These operations only took away from human rescues because both the UK and the US government spent so much time trying to keep them from happening and denying the rights of planes to land either for rescue or forbidden them to be boarded once landings occurred.
Just as they wasted tons of energy refusing landing rights or boarding passes for legitimate refugees, translators, and US Citizens. Even using their energies to call other countries asking them not to allow the planes to land rather than using their time to get people and animals out of dodge and into somewhere safe (even for a few days until a new location could be found).
The Biden Handlers and BoJo's government have to OWN this, and some of us are not going to let them forget them and let them "get on with things" either.
Other dogs were probably those of Afghan handlers attached to US units but not covered by them (as stated in the article) and some of the dogs would have been rescued street dogs already tamed, vetted, neutered, or spayed.
These rescues routinely sent dogs to the West for rehoming often with veterans groups or even police stations (working dogs). The vets and their caretakers know what the rules for transport to Europe and North America are and that was why the UK "minister" who at first said the animals might be destroyed because they were "disease-ridden" (Pen's animals) were ridiculous.
UK vets have confirmed all the animals are healthy and had their shots, dewormers, and everything. They still have to be in quarantine of course, but they are perfectly healthy.
These operations only took away from human rescues because both the UK and the US government spent so much time trying to keep them from happening and denying the rights of planes to land either for rescue or forbidden them to be boarded once landings occurred.
Just as they wasted tons of energy refusing landing rights or boarding passes for legitimate refugees, translators, and US Citizens. Even using their energies to call other countries asking them not to allow the planes to land rather than using their time to get people and animals out of dodge and into somewhere safe (even for a few days until a new location could be found).
The Biden Handlers and BoJo's government have to OWN this, and some of us are not going to let them forget them and let them "get on with things" either.
