My Iraqi Puppies

[Yenny]

Hi all,

I've found something to keep me looking foward to every day here in Iraq. My Iraqi BN counterpart HQ had a few dogs, and one of the dogs just gave birth to about 6 puppies. So it's kinda something beautiful in a middle of a mess. These dogs are very friendly especially the mom. Every time I come in from mission, they always run up and hop into my stryker wiggling their tails.

Today is one of those days that you just don't know what you'll run into. As I roll outside the wire, one of the friendly Iraqi Police truck got hit by an IED right outside the compound(no KIA), and I had to provide security for them as they get their problem fix. However, I also found my favorite dog that I raised here in Iraq gave birth. My goal for the remainder of the time here in Iraq is to get a weekly picture of these puppies growing up and share it with you all.

[John Curnutte]

 Yenny ;
 Glad you have something good happing there , dogs look great . However the Police truck has been better . But did the air bags go off !
              Nutte

[Yenny]

it did go off !

[gyrene81]

Very cool Yenny...what you gonna do when you RTB? Don't think customs would let them through.

Whoever was in that truck was lucky it hit the engine compartment...looks like the firewall did a partial save...still makes me   how no KIA.

[68ZooM]

Them are some beautiful pups, do you know what breed they are?

[Yenny]

Ohh I don't know, I know I can't bring one of em back to the state. I guess I just wanna get a picture of em every week if I could til I leave. Yea, when I had the audio contact I was like damn, not again thinking it was one of my truck, but whew glad it's not. Since I been in country for 2+ months now, I got hit by 2IED and mortar about 6x.

[Yenny]

Them are some beautiful pups, do you know what breed they are?

I don't know what it is but it really look like huskie, kinda like a wolf

[Ack-Ack]

Ohh I don't know, I know I can't bring one of em back to the state. I guess I just wanna get a picture of em every week if I could til I leave. Yea, when I had the audio contact I was like damn, not again thinking it was one of my truck, but whew glad it's not. Since I been in country for 2+ months now, I got hit by 2IED and mortar about 6x.

There's an organization that has been helping servicemen and women bringing home dogs from the war zones, don't recall the name though.


ack-ack

[trax1]

There's an organization that has been helping servicemen and women bringing home dogs from the war zones, don't recall the name though.


ack-ack

Heres a website for Operation Baghdad Pups.

http://www.spcai.org/baghdad-pups.html

[maddafinga]

Fantastic man!  Stay safe and keep posting as you can. Thanks for everything that you're doing.

[SIK1]

There's nothing better than getting back and having a dog glad that you are.

Not sure how the Iragis are about dogs. I know the Iranians hated dogs. The feral dogs were called jube dogs. Literal translation is gutter dogs.

[oakranger]

Are you going to try to get them back to the state?

[Raptor]

I don't know what it is but it really look like huskie, kinda like a wolf

I would say more like an Australian shepherd

[Obie303]

Great pictures of the pups.  With a little luck, maybe you can bring one home.

Keep your head down and stay safe. 

[Slash27]

Thanks for posting Yenny. Keep your bellybutton safe and if you can figure out how to get those dogs out of country I'll take one!