Over 10,000 people have signed a petition requesting that Sergeant Gwen Beberg gets to bring home a dog she rescued in Iraq named Ratchet. Sgt. Beberg rescued Ratchet from a pile of burning rubble and fears that he will be killed if she leaves him on the streets of Iraq after she heads back home. Gwen and Ratchet have been separated due to a transfer, but she hopes to get him back! "I just want my puppy home," Sgt Beberg wrote to her mother in the US in an email from Iraq this week, soon after she was separated from the dog after a transfer.
"I miss my dog horribly," Sgt Beberg, who is scheduled to return to the US next month, wrote.
The great news is that Operation Baghdad Pups, which is run by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals International, left for Iraq to try and get the dog to the US.
The U.S. Defense Department actually prohibits soldiers from adopting pets, but that isn't going to stop Baghdad Pups' Patricia Beberg from trying!
"If I find out that he was killed though - well, we just won't entertain that possibility."
"They knew about the regulation," Beberg said, "but excuse me, you're not going to throw the puppy back in the burning pile."
Operation Baghdad Pups' program coordinator Terry Crisp said they'll do everything they can to get the dog back to America.
"Iraqis view dogs and cats as rats, as nuisances, carriers of disease," she said.
Many U.S. soldiers tell stories of rescuing dogs from local Iraqis to save their life.
Source : gaysocialities
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