Soviet K-9 Dog Kennels
Soviet Combat Engineers used dogs to sniff for land mines during their war in Afghanistan. German shepherds were the breed of choice.
These pictures show the remains of a Soviet K-9 dog barracks. They were built using the same mud construction that the Afghans use for their homes.
You can still see the small kennels used to house each dog. It's amazing that the mud construction has lasted this long.
The Afghans tried a number of ways to baffle the Soviet Union's dogs, like wrapping the mines in cellophane or sprinkling them with motor oil. Neither method was very successful.
Dogs are still used today to help locate the thousands of land mines left in this country.
1 comments:
Scott- I have an interest in both service dogs AND alternative homebuilding... so I find these cob kennels to be a very interesting thing indeed! My brother is an architect who specializes in canine architecture- so I'll be forwarding this to him too- how neat!
You might like to send copies of these pictures over to the folks at http://www.uswardogs.org/ (the e mail is at the bottom 1/3 of the page) I am sure they would be interested to see this ruin too.
I have such a deep respect for these hard working dogs and the things they can do. Indiana tragically lost one of ours here at home, beautiful Malinois, yesterday in the line of duty, shot by a bad guy. http://www.indystar.com:80/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070510/LOCAL/705100569
RIP "Bo"- Thank you for your service to humankind.
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