Animals and the Final Journey
The soldier and the month-old dog had been in Afghanistan for almost six months, uncovering roadside bombs and weapons in a dangerous daily routine.
Theo became a bit of a military celebrity last month after the defense ministry released photos and video of him and Tasker to highlight the lifesaving work of military dogs. The footage, now deeply poignant, shows Theo — energetic, ears cocked, tail wagging — alongside Tasker searching a compound for explosives. In it, Theo is seen feverishly circling the dusty area, his nose pressed to the ground. At one point he stops, tail wagging furiously, and begins digging the rocky earth before turning eagerly toward Tasker, who calls out "good boy! The ministry said then that Theo had been so successful — finding 14 hidden bombs and weapons caches, a record for a team in Afghanistan — that the dog's tour of duty had been extended by a month.
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Tasker was the th British soldier to die in Afghanistan since the U. Theo was the sixth British military dog killed in Iraq or Afghanistan since There are calls for Theo to receive the Dickin medal, which since has recognized wartime bravery by animals, from carrier pigeons to a World War II commando collie.
The loyalty of some dogs is legendary, from Greyfriars Bobby, a 19th-century Skye terrier who guarded his master's Edinburgh grave for 14 years, to Hachiko, a Japanese dog who awaited his owner's return at a train station every day for years after the man's death.
Both are commemorated with statues. Tasker's mother, Jane Duffy agreed.
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Tasker's colleague's recalled the soldier's bond with his dog and zealous attention to duty in tributes released by the defense ministry. Alexander Turner, a commander of Tasker's unit. Animal Friends believes that the transport of live animals is completely unnecessary, unethical and cruel and should, as such, be completely banned. The most effective way for each individual to make a pledge for the ban of transport of animals is to switch to a plant based diet — automatically refusing to take part in animal suffering.
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Liam and Theo were a team for years — and they died within hours of each other
Animals are blessed in a way. They tend to go with the flow of things without questioning them. In fact, they even deal with pain often quite casually. In this as in so many areas, we tend to get lost in our own experience. Sensing that the essence of our loved one will survive may lessen our grief, but it barely reduces the helplessness we feel in dealing with practical challenges.
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Too often, driven by our concerns about letting the animal suffer, our final decisions are made from a state of fear—the least wise of our guides. Though our society tends to separate the act and fact of dying from everyday reality whenever possible, that is not the case in many of the great traditions, including Zen, Tibetan Buddhism and Shamanism. In these, life is seen as an opportunity to prepare for the great transition called dying. When viewed this way, daily life provides us with many chances to practice letting go.
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We can learn from such wisdom and not confuse our willingness to let our animal go with having to let it be necessarily euthanized. If we can just let go of all of our preconceived notions of what a life still worth living ought to look like, of how much time we can afford attending to the dying animal, of how quickly dying ought to be happening—if we can let go of all of that and more, in recognition that all of these concepts have nothing to do with what is best for our animal, THEN we are ready, or at least close to ready to perceiving where the animal is at for itself.
The experience will seem daunting to us rather than sacred. A privilege indeed it is to wave our loved one off, neither holding it back, nor trying to rush it. Animals can teach us about this if we let them, giving us a last priceless gift from that relationship of person and companion animal. Join our email list.