By "pity", I was thinking of all the dogs, and all the children and other innocents who were dumped into wars that shouldn't have been started in the first place.

I have a Belgian Tervuren*, a breed that was used in WWI and WWII and later, as guard dogs, to carry messages, and harnessed with spools of wire to run communications systems covertly between units.

When all the American wars were over, the dogs were destroyed. Every single GD one. This didn't change until 2000. So much for loyalty, trust and affection... pretty one-sided, wouldn't you say?

The military don't give a rat's a$$ about anything or anyone, just getting the job done. Dogs are like soldiers, easily expendable, easily replaced. Fodder.

*The Belgian Tervuren, Belgian Shepherd, Belgian Malinois and Belgian Laekenois are basically all the same dog with different types/color of haircoats.

Sue