Can Dogs In War Zones Experience Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Even His Red Squeak Toy Can't Get First Sgt. Gunner, USMC, to Fight -- Wall Street Journal

Despite Rehab, the Yellow Lab Won't Sniff for Bombs in Combat; He's 'a Lover'.

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan—When the Marines cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war, one remains in his kennel. Quivering.

Out of the 58 bomb-sniffing dogs the Marines have in Afghanistan, only one—a brown-eyed, floppy-eared yellow Lab named Gunner—is suffering from such severe canine post-traumatic stress disorder that he had to sit out the ongoing offensive in central Helmand Province.

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My Comment: As one who has had dogs all his life .... take it from me .... when they hang around people for a while they start to think just like us. And yes .... they can also suffer just like us.

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