• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        25·
        2 years ago

        Military members are considered “equipment,” by the US military. The terminology originated with them. The thugs with badges are using it for their cosplay.

        • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
          7·
          2 years ago

          I don’t think that’s okay for military purposes either tbh. Actually it’s pretty disgusting.

          • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
            9·
            2 years ago

            I can understand that when taken at face value. The reason for it is that as a member of the military, you are extremely technically no longer a citizen of the US, nor are you governed by the laws and regulations of the US. You are now governed by the UCMJ, which, in theory, is much stricter about what codes of conduct will be allowed in your day to day life.

            Mostly it’s for accounting purposes.

        • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
          4·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, that’s what bugs me about this. Dogs deserve for us to treat them better than this. They’ve certainly earned better than this from us.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      161·
      2 years ago

      More military cosplay from the thugs with badges. That’s the terminology used for service member medical procedures.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        121·
        2 years ago

        To be even more fair, that is exactly the terminology used for military personnel medical procedures. We all know that the thugs with badges absolutely love to cosplay as military, so it follows that they would use military terminology.

      • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Probably not actually, especially in the long term. Crowns and veneers can lead to lots of other dental problems and the thing is, the dog doesn’t have human speech to let handlers know it’s in pain or having a problem right away so if they have a rotting tooth or a cracked one under the cap all kinds of things can go wrong.

    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
      334·
      2 years ago

      A dog’s nose is 1000 times more sensitive than a human’s

      It’s animal cruelty so it works!

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        23·
        2 years ago

        It’s 1000 times more sensitive to scent. I’m no veterinarian, nor am I a dog, but I foster dogs, and those little fuckers aren’t exactly gentle about shoving their snouts into anything and everything available. I doubt it would hurt the dog.

        That being said, yeah, the dog doesn’t like it, and would probably bite anyone other than their human that tried to do that.

  • kippinitreal@lemmy.world
    722·
    2 years ago

    Devils advocate: retiring an old service dog means you’d need to invest in training another pup which is way more expensive than titanium teeth and dealing even with animal cruelty complaints and/or lawsuits. Also “bleed blue” fanboys will see this as badass, so its free PR.

    As a mortal/moral person advocate: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU.

            • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
              4·
              2 years ago

              I don’t know who gave them to me. I just found both pairs in places that it made no sense for them to be.

              One was just sitting in the middle of Natural Bridge, in Natural Bridge State Park, Kentucky. The second pair just showed up on the hood of my still running car while I was on delivery. The universe does strange things like that.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
      71·
      2 years ago

      How about we save the money by not giving the police literal attack dogs to maul people with… Maybe just start ripping budget away from the police that insist on buying up surplus military equipment, ensuring that the only tool they have to solve any problem is a gun. Nah - the people that relentlessly bleat about freedom just loooove that shiny new boot leather taste.

  • _lilith@lemmy.world
    351·
    2 years ago

    It can’t be normal to wear out k9 teeth. I know they file them so they punch instead of tear but this seems dumb. What is he biting bricks?

    • undergroundoverground@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      To me, its that being forced to do the same thing all day, nearly everyday, wears out your body and mind, long before their due date.

      We just that we don’t get many reframed, visible representations of it. Especially ones this apparent.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    29·
    2 years ago

    Meanwhile regular people have to shell out a small fortune for fake teeth out of their pockets, because they surely haven’t bought the right brand of toothpaste, mouthwash, floss, and electric toothbrush, not to mention that teeth are for smiling, not eating.