Excerpt from Scout, Red Cross and Army Dogs: A Historical Sketch of Dogs in the Great War and a Training Guide for the Rank and File of the United States Army I leave this training guide in your hands, Officers and Men of the United States Army. Let your mascot be a dog hereafter, a dog of the right breed and brain, with the right body and grit, and train' him along the lines laid down, so that if the time ever comes when the targets shoot again, you may have your mascot with you not only to comfort you, but to aid you to become masters of the shooting targets. The country will owe you thanks for whatever vou may do in enlisting dogs in the better preparedness program. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.