“I’d just sit there and stroke the top of his head and I could pretend that I wasn’t in Afghanistan,” Farthing recalled in an interview from Kabul. Afghan veterinarians Dr. Maliha, left, Dr. Tahera and Dr. Malalai work with the Nowzad animal clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan. It also helps to shuttle out of the country Afghan animals who have been informally adopted by western soldiers. It costs about $5,000 to fly de Boer’s dogs from Kabul to Dubai, Dubai to Europe and Europe to Canada. The Afghan dogs tend to carry mental scars of the conflict.

Source: thestar December 04, 2017 10:52 UTC