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Vol. 15 · No. 131 · Tuesday, 3 November 2026

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Military working dog forced to carry 225-lb bag of shit on leash for entire deployment

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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — The Pentagon is facing a Congressional inquiry after an email surfaced alleging a unit deployed to Afghanistan required a working dog to carry a "gigantic bag of shit" on its leash nearly 24 hours a day, sources confirmed.

According to PETA spokesperson Sylvia Gaines, the animal rights organization was tipped off via an anonymous email from a soldier intimately familiar with the situation. The soldier, currently serving in Afghanistan, alleges a seven-year-old chocolate lab, Master Sgt. "Gunner," was forced to live and work in a toxic command climate for nearly a year.

“You can imagine our concern when we received an email about one of our nation's canine heroes being forced to carry a 'complete and utterly useless piece of human waste' around with him at all times," said Gaines.

She believes this practice has been going on for a while, as she estimates it took years of defilement and negligence to amass such a "massive load of garbage."

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