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- Title: Animals are Property: The Violation of Soldiers' Rights to Strays in Iraq.
- Author : Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 307 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION Three-tour Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman was shocked to hear his rough-and-tumble elite force Marines gushing "' [Y]ou had yuckee little buggees all over you ... now you're a brave little toughee ... yessiree.'" (1) They were talking to a starved, flea-bitten, six-week old puppy, later named Lava, discovered just a few days earlier in an abandoned building. (2) Lava instantly became one of the team. The soldiers fed, slept with, and protected him. In return, he helped them to forget. Lava's presence at the compound "allow[ed] all humans a temporary exit pass from reality ... into the Land of Make-Believe where puppies romp on plush, green grass and it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." (3) Lieutenant Kopelman fell especially hard for Lava, who peed in his boots, and eventually shared his sleeping bag. (4)