Mar 19, 2010: Dog skydiver

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Weeeeeeeeeee!!!1! What we have here is a Austrian Special Forces dog, jumping in Norway with NATO troops in a training exercise.



Fido there apparently doesn't mind, either. Although that tuck formation should include putting the tail under. The article claims they haven't the perception to realize they're jumping 10,000 feet up. I dunno about that. I have to imagine the human's jumpsuit is covered in urine... mine would be, regardless of whether I had a dog attached.

The dogs are apparently trained to attack anyone with a weapon, although they don't say how "friendly fire" is avoided in that case.



The dog breed is Belgian Shepherd... s/he apparently enjoys being strapped to a human. I would like to carry my dog around this way, except that she's 12 pounds and would only influence foreign fighters to stop shooting for a second and look at the cute puppy. That might be useful though.

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