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Welcome Friends!
This website has been established for the purpose of making the Retiring Military Working Dog adoption process easier for those interested in giving a Forever Home to a deserving Veteran!
If you carefully follow the "The ABC's of MWD Adoption" --with a little perseverance-- you soon will be embracing your very own MWD !!!
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Military Working Dog Adoptions
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As a result of the passage of
civilians can adopt a retiring
Military Working Dog! These
wonderful animals can now
have a well-deserved retirement
with a loving family. Check out
how you can add a most deserving
Veteran to your family!
A Little Known Fact...
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Goldsboro News Argus Photo by Greg Sousa
This is NOT an official Department of Defense Military Working Dog Adoption site. It is based upon knowledge gained from personal MWD adoption experience.
In Retirement, Our Noble MWDs Merit the Same Quality of Love They Receive
During Their Years of Honorable Military Service...Truly They Are Loved !!!
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Military Working Dog Adoptions is a private organization
in the process of obtaining 501(c)3 status.
Your donations will fund our efforts
to help Retiring Military Working Dogs
find Forever Homes! On behalf of our MWD Heroes...
Thank you for your support !
K-9 H E R O E S
USA's
DONATIONS
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'The MWD is a soldier, a partner, our defender, our friend. We are his life, his love, his leader. He will be ours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. We owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.'
As seen on...
Highly Trained Military Dogs Meet Civilian Life After Service 'War Dogs' Switch From Bomb Sniffing to Playing Fetch
Oct. 21, 2008 By Terry McCarthy
Click here for video / story
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To speak with someone from MWD Adoptions, please call:
505-990-8147
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These are the eyes of TRUST and LOVE which defend America...
HOW can we DO LESS than HELP our retiring MWDs find Forever Homes??
Phone: 505-990-8147
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How can it be "FRAUD, WASTE and ABUSE" to transport retired MWDs back to the USA??? IF you believe that retiring MWDs are K-9 Veterans as we do, WRITE, EMAIL and/or PHONE your Congressman or Representative and ASK THEM TO AMEND HR 5314 to "MAKE IT MANDATORY to transport retired MWDs stationed OVERSEAS back to the USA"! Feel free to copy or quote the above information in your letter.
Be DIRECT but KIND and RESPECTFUL in all your communications.
Military Working Dog Adoptions thanks you for writing the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Norton A. Schwartz ! Because of YOUR EFFORTS these Proposed Changes to the Retiring MWD Adoption Program are currently being implemented by Lackland AFB:
1. Implement Standardized Operating Procedure among all the services regarding MWD Adoptions. LAFB is improving and following already established SOP in order to get the Hero retiring MWDs into homes as expediently as possible.
2. Set a standardized length of time for the retiring MWD’s paperwork being processed through Lackland AFB. Dispositon paperwork is being processed AS SOON AS it is received in LACKLAND AFB in order to ensure the quickest turnaround possible.
3. Make it MANDATORY to list all unspoken for, adoption-suitable MWDs world-wide on the Lackland AFB DoD website: http://www.lackland.af.mil/units/341stmwd/index.asp This is being explored thoroughly. At this point, it is still not MANDATORY, but the MWD Adoption Coordinator is corresponding with Program Managers to actively find home options for adoption-suitable not yet spoken for MWDs by referring previously received MWD Adoption applicants from the region where the MWD is available to the MWD's Owning Unit. LAFB is actively working to get all personnel involved in retiring MWD adoptions on the same page with regard to adoption-suitable MWDs world-wide.
WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO to REALLY HELP these HERO MWDS ???
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”I just wanted you to hear this from someone who's right in the thick of everything with these MWDs about just how much these dogs are loved while they're working. They really do get royal treatment that most people don't have the opportunity to see. The handlers love them and so do the vet staff. Yes, they are kept in kennels. No, they don't get to go home with someone every night….but while they are a military asset, they really aren't treated like property. I've seen big strong military policemen reduced to tears when their dog was too hurt to be able to go on... I've seen an entire room full of policeman and veterinary staff tearing up like children because of it…
These dogs are the center of attention while they are MWD's, and they are the number one reason that veterinarians exist in the military. It's the part of my job that I take the most pride in.”
Animal Care SGT, U.S. Army
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Many Soldiers have their TODAYS and TOMORROWS...
because of what an MWD DID for them YESTERDAY !!
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This page was last updated: February 2, 2010
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Sean is a dedicated Friend of Retiring MWDs
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Military Working Dog Adoptions
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Heartfelt Kudos to these Animal Champions!!
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HEROIC
LOYAL
BRAVE
NOBLE
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Dec. 29, 2009 "The Hannity Show"
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First Line of Defense
Military Working Dogs Saving American Soldiers' Lives
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READ BELOW....
HERE'S THE ONE REMAINING ISSUE WE MUST INSIST THAT
CONGRESS CHANGE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE !!!!
Write your CONGRESSMEN AND REPRESENTATIVES and ASK THEM TO AMEND HR 5314 to MAKE IT MANDATORY for all adopted OCONUS (OVERSEAS) MWDs to receive transport back to the U.S. via military air. Retired MWDs have no “return to home station” benefits even though for the time of their service we proclaim them as bonafide “military members”. As it now stands, retired OCONUS (OVERSEAS) MWDs must be transported at adoptive owner’s expense as a “pet”! In an August 28, 2009, article, Air Force Major General Mary Kay Hertog clarified why adopters must bear the brunt of transport for adopted dogs returning from overseas. "Once that dog is adopted, it becomes a pet, and therefore loses its MWD status," she explained. "So it would be fraud, waste and abuse for the DOD to transport that pet." (http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123165389)
CLICK HERE to access a complete list of America's Senators and Congressmen by State
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