The place we are going to is not far from Dmitrov, it’s the methodical and cynological centre #470 and the military nursery “Red Star”.
Sheep dogs are probably the most popular in the army. Here, in the nursery that opened in 1924, the dogs get training, serve in hot points, stand guard over the border, look for mines.
Let’s start from the museum
At war dogs not only assisted soldiers but blew up tanks. Unfortunately they were trained as kamikaze dogs. But war is always war, and human life is more valuable. Various cunning methods were used to train such selflessness. First of all the dog was trained to know that there’s food under a tank. Then food was put under a working tank in order the dog got used to its noise. Further the task became more complicated and the dog with explosives attached was sent under the moving vehicle…
Such sledges and gurneys were used to remove the injured with help of dogs away from a battlefield. In such a way they saved more than 700 000 soldiers during the war. Then the gurneys were loaded with ammunition and the dogs were sent back.
Syringe for dogs insemination
Here was another stand, devoted to pigeons this time.
Victor Cherevichkin – a Soviet teenager from Rostov-on-Don was killed by German invaders for his refusal to kill his pigeons. Germans forbade to keep pigeons to exclude information leakage.
Brains and eyes of a pigeon
Sugar bowl from Zhukovsky
At each building there is a special device for shoes cleaning. In winter soldiers wear valenki, by the way.
Some dogs live here, others are trained within 3 months to be sent to various parts of the country for service. Type of service depends on a dog’s temper. Reckless dogs, loving games are perfect for searching mines, more aggressive ones are used to guard.
This dog is awesome – so talented, “talkative” and so much devoted to the owner.
This hairy mic is also called “a dog”…
The dogs like new visitors in clothes of different color than green…
This guy works with dog sleds, his own dogs serves with him.
Veterinary hospital
In cold time dogs suffer from the same deseases as people do. Cold, high temperature. This Eastern-European sheep dog has recently pupped. Now she is in the veterinary hospital where she takes care of her puppies and gets injections with vitamins.
Cages of the hospital, but the dogs do not live in them.
An awesome poster! “Unified system of excrements quality determination WALTHAM”
Red Star. The nature all around is beautiful, it must be nice to live here.
Cool birdhouse
Exhibition perfomance of a guard-dog. 20 m away from the post the dog should warn a pointsman by barking that a stranger is approaching…
Sentry is hiding behind the tent
Free guard post
Labradors loving to play are suitable for searching mines. How do they do it? A dog is trained to feel trotyl smell. A man can feel it too, but for this 1cm2 of air must contain about 200 000 molecules of the substance. On the road mines are searched in zigzug not to miss any.
Location: Dmitrov
via hobot-belong
This place looks just like the dog park in my town. Except for all the snow though. We have one on the beach where you might be able to have the dogs pull a sled through the beach sand. It is good to have dogs in the military. If the soldiers ever run out of food they can eat the dogs.
Testicules on first reading your comment I thought you had finally grown a brain, but after reading the whole thing I realize its the same old you.
Really. You don’t think a soldier would not butcher a dog to feed his unit?
How about using that dog to hunt for other animals? That little idea ever popped into your head?
How they used dogs in wwII: they trained the dogs to find food below tanks and other vehicles.
Then when confronted by enemies they would attach a mine to the dog and then release them. They would go after the “food” and then they exploded. That had some problems because the dogs also searched for food in friendly vehicles, epic fail. Then they started using remote detonation explosives to avoid this.
Way to go to appreciate men best friend…
Better dogs than humans.