Meet the hero stray dog who was kidnapped and rescued from the Taliban in a daring raid by Afghan commandos
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No dog should be left behind. It’s an imperative of the Armed Forces. Of course, it should be no man left should be left behind. But for a Canadian soldier, Cpl. Shane Seguin, that command recently expanded to include an Afghan canine.
When Pte Conrad Lewis was killed in Afghanistan earlier this year, his family felt compelled to honour a wish he had made before he died.
While serving in Helmand province, Pte Lewis befriended a stray dog, Peg, which became a mascot for his company.
He had been hoping to bring the dog back to the UK at the end of his tour of duty.
On Feb. 9, 2010, in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, a bullet shot from a Taliban sniper bounced off of Pvt. Lewis Henry and deflected onto his patrol companion, Pvt. Conrad Lewis from the 4th Battalion, Parachute Regiment.
Lewis, 22, was killed instantly.
“He was bloody unlucky,” said Lewis’ father, Antony Lewis, from Warwickshire, England.
On a military base in Afghanistan, five puppies provided a bit of comfort to five U.S. Marines.
Today, all of those puppies are in the U.S., and one of them is in Waupaca.
Rosie is the name of the puppy now living here with Brian and Bonnie Anderson.
“My son said Rosie won the puppy lottery,” Bonnie said.
Last December, her son, a U.S. Marine, was on his second deployment in Afghanistan when a dog snuck onto the base and soon gave birth to five puppies.
Pen has recently completed his 2nd visit of the year to the Nowzad shelter in Afghanistan.
Check out this fab video and see what he got up to on this visit.
As you are all aware Pen is climbing mountains all over the UK and other parts of the world to raise money and awareness for Nowzad.
Pen has recently completed part 2 of his ‘Feeding the Rat’ challenge in Morocco by climbing to the summit of Jebel Toubkel.
Check out these great videos of part 1 of the challenge in the USA and part 2 in Morroco
Pen recently visited the Nowzad Shelter in Afghanistan and made this fab video. Please continue reading to view the video
To that end, the animal activist and founder of beauty-products company PRAI is giving $55,000 to rescue neglected dogs through Nowzad Dogs, a grass-roots animal-rescue organization started by former marine sergeant Pen Farthing.
The gift is through Beauty with a Cause, an organization that helps animal-welfare organizations around the world funded through a percentage of her company’s profits……
When John Steele decided on a name for his Afghan rescue German shepherd mix puppy Kaiah in September, he merged two distinct and contrasting components — the site of the first base (Kabul) he frequented in the mountainous, war-torn Southcentral Asian country with the a Hawaiian name (Native American origin) meaning “rare beauty.”
