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Washington, D.C., where a posse killed a drooling Doberman pinscher after it had bitten four children...
...scene: Manhattan's annual Westminster dog show last week, shortly before the judging for best-in-show.) A brass band blared, the Dog Writers Association (just what it sounds like) stopped pecking at their typewriters, and 24 shepherds, Dalmatians and Doberman Pinschers paraded around the arena of Madison Square Garden. They were no prize pooches but hard-working war dogs recruited by Dogs for Defense, Inc., for whose benefit this year's Westminster show was staged...
This morning, I found her lying half-dead near her kennel, which she had tried to retake from a vicious 110-pound Doberman who had replaced her. He tore her to ribbons and she was still trying to rise and fight back. She had run from the Colonel that morning and made a beeline for the spot where she usually met me, and she fought this big dog for what she considered her rightful place. The veterinarian, who likes us both, says he will see her well and will intercede to give her another chance...
...California coastline. Said Private Gerald Reynolds: "[On New Year's Eve] I went on watch at 6 that evening, with a complete outfit-tin hat, gas mask, canteen, rifle and bayonet and nothing but water in the canteen either. Me and another guy were out with a Doberman dog patrolling a section of Terminal Island shoreline. Everything was completely blacked out and it was raining to beat the band. We had raincoats on but even then after six hours of it we got pretty wet. You could hear harbor waters swishing on one side of us and just barely...
...dogs are being trained to walk post with sentries, sniff out spies and saboteurs. More than 1,000 dog owners, including the owner of Rin Tin Tin III, have offered the services of their pets. Dogs of war must be. 1) big; 2) intelligent. Best types: German shepherds, Doberman pinschers...