Chapter 494 PTSD
Walking past the cages, the memory gallery of the police dogs is completely open to the Flying Mass, which is like an insignificant fallen leaf, floating through their lives without a trace.
There is no doubt that X in cage No. 4 has steely willpower, no matter how many times he faints from heat stroke, no matter how much blood he has shed and how many injuries he has suffered, X's mentality is not affected, and he is a well-deserved "war dog".
However, Demu in cage 5 is not so tough.
When Feimas came to cage 5, he was surprised to find that Demu in cage 5 was huddled in the corner, trembling, with two forelimbs on his head, covering his ears, and staring at Feimas in horror.
Is this really a police dog?
Feimas's heart was suspicious, it had seen a lot of police dogs, strong as X, gentle as Luoluo, but even gentle Luoluo would not be scared like this. It had heard that Xinghai seemed to be in a similar situation to this police dog when he first came to the pet store.
The police dog in cage No. 5 is named "Zhantian".
As the name suggests, Zhan Tian is tall and mighty, with strong muscles, and looks more majestic than Big Tooth. Not only is it attractive for its appearance, but it also has excellent training results, which is not inferior to the X.
Zhan Tian is surprisingly young, and seems to be younger than X, probably less than 7 years old. In addition, Zhan Tian has sound limbs, and he has not been injured from the outside.
The doubts in Feimas's heart deepened, even if a 7-year-old police dog without injury or illness can be called in its prime, it can barely be regarded as a legitimate prime of life, and its experience and physical strength have reached its peak, why did he come to a remote police dog nursing home early to care for the elderly?
If you follow normal logic, Zhan Tian will probably be stationed in the border area and become a glorious and proud border police dog, even if you take a step back, at least you can become an excellent police dog in the inland area, arrest criminals, and receive awards for meritorious service - normally so.
In fact, Zhan Tian has an excellent bloodline and a powerful appearance, and has been favored by people since birth, and people believe that it will be the most outstanding police dog of this generation, so it has been given an extremely domineering name.
Zhan Tian is smart and brave, his training results in various subjects are top-notch, and his comprehensive strength is even higher than X, and he was finally assigned to a mysterious anti-terrorist special police force.
In the new era, terrorist activities have replaced border conflicts and become the biggest threat to national security.
Zhan Tian has received strict basic training in the police dog base, but the training requirements of the anti-terrorism special police are stricter, more professional and more targeted, and the training subjects are especially optimized for urban anti-terrorism.
From the fragmented memories of the war day, Pemmas saw that it had used a lot of novel and interesting gadgets, such as a high-tech police dog vest, which was not bulletproof like the bulletproof vest worn by X, because considering the situation of China's gun ban, urban anti-terrorism is generally unlikely to encounter high-lethal weapons such as automatic rifles and grenades.
The vest is equipped with a camera and microphone, and the captured images and captured sounds can be wirelessly transmitted to the owner's 3-inch display in real time, and the wireless transmission distance can reach up to 1 km in open areas, and the distance can reach about 200 meters even in complex urban environments.
The camera is waterproof and night vision for all-weather operations, and there is a miniature speaker close to the dog's head that allows the handler to give commands to the dog remotely.
Because you don't want to let the weight problem affect the flexibility of the police dog, the battery built into this vest can guarantee half an hour's working time, which is enough for a general anti-terrorist covert mission.
There are many more high-tech pieces like this, each of which is tailor-made for police dogs, and the price is surprisingly high. Just looking at the price of these things, Pemmas believes that it is definitely the best of the best police dogs that are eligible to enter the anti-terrorist SWAT force.
Zhan Tian is not only strong, but also very smart, these high-tech gadgets can be taught, and the special police team from top to bottom agrees that it will become the ace police dog in the police force.
The closer the training is to the end, the closer the content of the training is to actual combat, and even the actual terrorist attacks that have occurred at home and abroad are used as cases for training.
One day, an accident happened - this accident was not an accidental injury in training for Zhan Tian, but an accident that everyone did not expect.
Training subject: Urban anti-terrorism street fighting.
Training intensity: quasi-live ammunition.
In this simulation training, Zhan Tian followed a small team of anti-terrorist special police officers to break into the old building where the terrorists were entrenched to be demolished, and then searched for targets floor by floor and room by room.
Zhan Tian's keen sense of smell played a big role, and he was fully qualified to do his job as a scout, and soon led the team to the room where the terrorists were.
According to intelligence, the terrorists may be armed with guns, and according to the tactical rules, they should first throw a flashbang into the house and then burst into the room to subdue the terrorists.
Whether it is an anti-terrorist squad or a colleague who plays the role of a terrorist, the gun in his hand is full of rubber bullets, and even if he hits the body, it will not cause much damage. However, the flashbang thrown in was genuine.
The explosion of the flashbang produces a loud noise and a dazzling flash of light, which can temporarily blind, deaf, and incapacitate enemies in a confined room for a matter of seconds, leaving them almost helpless.
Here's the problem, the SWAT team knows to throw flashbangs, and if they are mentally prepared, the flashing hand will turn their heads and close their eyes to avoid the bright light, and open their mouths to avoid the impact of the sound on their eardrums.
Zhan Tian didn't know that no matter how smart it was, it was still a dog, a dog with 16 times more sensitive hearing than humans.
As soon as the door was opened, Zhan Tian, who was fighting bravely, was eager to try, although he was led by the special police to stay near the door, and did not rush into the room at the first time, but he was still affected by the flashbang.
Zhantian's memory was mutilated here, and Feimas could only see a white expanse, the sky was spinning, and his ears were buzzing and roaring. In the intense white light, the SWAT officers' movements became ghosting and slow motion.
In this training, Zhan Tian performed very well at the beginning, but his performance at the last moment was a little substandard. The officers and instructors of the SWAT team didn't care, because Zhan Tian's usual performance was good enough, and it didn't matter if he was in poor condition once in a while, it was just a dog after all, and they thought it was caused by Zhan Tian's overwork.
Zhan Tian was given a few days off to let it rest, but a few days later, during another simulation training to rescue the hostages, it made a big mistake.
In this simulation training, when Zhan Tian saw the SWAT team members take out flashbangs and hold them in their hands, before they could pull the strings and throw them, and before the door was opened, they screamed in horror, completely exposing the position of the SWAT team to the enemy, and the result of the training was that the hostage rescue failed, and the SWAT team was completely wiped out by the enemy.
From this day on, Zhan Tian was beaten into the cold palace, and fell from the candidate ace police dog to the dust, and even the special police officer with it did not give it a good look, because of its major mistakes, which caused the entire special police team to rank at the bottom of the training and suffered ridicule.
Despite this, Zhan Tian's previous training results were too good, and the instructors still didn't give up on it completely, and after letting it recuperate for a longer time, they tried to activate it again, allowing it to participate in some relatively simple training.
However, this long break did not reverse the decline of Zhantian, and its performance in training became worse and worse, often standing up without warning during the run, looking around suspiciously, or running to the corner to shrink up and tremble when it heard the gunshot, becoming the laughing stock of the entire anti-terrorist SWAT unit, and even its name became a reason for people to make fun of it, like a fool......
In this way, Zhan Tian was finally abandoned by everyone, and even its owner no longer paid attention to it.
The superiors of the SWAT unit signed an early discharge order for Zhan Tian, but no one wanted to adopt it, and no one wanted to adopt a coward.
After several twists and turns, Zhan Tian, who was once beautiful, was thrown like garbage into Fu Tao's police dog nursing home, living lonely in cage No. 5, and hiding in a corner and huddled in a ball whenever a stranger arrived......
X who sacrificed himself to save others is admirable, and Zhan Tian, who died before he got out of school, is a sigh, his body is intact, but his heart is broken.
Feimas watched Zhan Tian in silence, his heart full of regret.
In a sense, Zhan Tian is also a war dog that protects his family and defends the country, and like X, he was discharged from the army due to injury, but it was injured in his heart, but the treatment he received was different from X.
It's not fair.
These veteran police dogs have more or less attachment and reluctance to their owners in their hearts, but Zhan Tian did not, its owner gave up on it, and it also accepted this fact.
Pemmas couldn't bear to let the poor police dog continue to be frightened, so he wanted to leave here and leave it alone and go to cage 6 to see it himself.
At this moment, the footsteps of several people came from the door of the kennel, and Pemmas could tell that Zhang Zi'an was among them.
Zhang Zi'an and Lao Yang talked about it, and felt that Fu Tao was a good person, and they could try to hand over the eliminated German pastors to him, but before making a final decision, they still wanted to go into the kennel for a field inspection, including the health conditions and the treatment of the police dogs.
So, at their request, Fu Tao led them to the kennel.
Seeing Feimas, Zhang Zi'an was relieved, "Feimas, you came here by yourself, I'm still looking for you." ”
Fu Tao snorted lightly and said, "Look at you nervous, I said that it can't be lost in this courtyard, where can it run with the courtyard door closed?"
Zhang Zi'an smiled embarrassedly, but Lao Yang defended him: "If I have such a dog, I am also nervous, and the whole crew treats this dog as a baby bump." ”
Fu Tao whispered disdainfully: "What's the spirit, I'm not a dog who hasn't made a movie here......"
Zhang Zi'an felt that Fu Tao's temper was like an old child, and he didn't care. He and Lao Yang walked from cage 1 to cage 4, they didn't have the ability of Pegas, the police dog in the cage seemed normal to them, only the X of No. 4 made them stop for a while, because of its proud look and disabled hind legs.
When they arrived in front of cage 5, Feimas yelled at Zhang Zi'an, saying, "It's not quite right. ”
Zhang Zi'an and Lao Yang also noticed that the German pastor in the No. 5 cage seemed to be extremely timid, and he was afraid of strangers and shrunk in the corner, is this really a police dog?
Zhang Zi'an's first thought was whether the dog had been abused by Fu Tao - this is a very normal first reaction, because generally speaking, dogs that have been severely abused will be so afraid of people.
If Fu Tao opened a police dog nursing home on the surface, but he was a dog sadist behind his back, then he couldn't foster the German pastors here anyway......
However, after Zhang Zi'an took a closer look, he didn't feel like it, because the dog was very strong and had no obvious scars on the outside.
Feimas explained softly, "It had something terrible to do in training, and it became like this......"
Zhang Zi'an was stunned, and couldn't guess what terrible things happened during training, after all, this dog was not injured or sick, no matter how terrible it was, how terrible could it be?
Lao Yang couldn't help but ask, "I said, what's going on with this dog?"
Fu Tao frowned and said embarrassedly: "This dog...... Actually, I don't quite understand what it's about, I heard that this dog is very cowardly, and he was scared in training, and no one wanted it, so I saw that it was pitiful, so I accepted it. ”
Zhan Tian seemed to understand his words, and lowered his head aggrievedly and whimpered.
Lao Yang, as a former trainer of the police dog base, dislikes dogs the most, he thinks that dogs can be stupid, but they must not be cowardly, and immediately lost interest in Zhantian.
Feimas shook his head and denied: "It's not cowardly, it's just ...... Sick, sick in the heart. ”
Lao Yang and Fu Tao couldn't understand Feimasi's words, but Zhang Zi'an could understand them, and they couldn't help but be more confused. He saw that Fu Tao was about to move forward, so he dodged and stopped: "Master Fu, can you tell me in detail how this dog was scared?"
Fu Tao felt that Zhang Zi'an was a little verbose, and said impatiently: "I don't know the specifics, anyway, I suddenly coaxed in training." ”
Pemmas whispered, "It's a flashbang, it saw a flashbang explode in close proximity during live-fire training." ”
Flashbangs?
Zhang Zi'an muttered in his heart, according to common sense, flashbangs are non-lethal weapons, does it have such a big impact on this dog?
Lao Yang was asking Fu Tao some questions about daily feeding and training, and Zhang Zi'an took the opportunity to take out his mobile phone and send a message to Sun Xiaomeng.
Zhang Zi'an: "Question: If a police dog sees a flashbang explode at close range, will it be scared out of illness?"
Sun Xiaomeng did not reply.
Zhang Zi'an sent a red envelope of 50 yuan.
Sun Xiaomeng: "Generally, no, but occasionally there are exceptions. ”
Zhang Zi'an: "How is it possible? Is the dog so cowardly? This is a police dog!"
After waiting for a while and not replying, Zhang Zi'an sent a 100 yuan red envelope painfully, and left a message: "This time, I will finish my words in one breath." ”
Sun Xiaomeng: "This kind of case is very rare in China, but I have heard of it from time to time among the military dogs of the US military units in Iraq and Afghanistan. ”
Zhang Zi'an said, why is it still involved with the US military......
Sun Xiaomeng: "Dogs have the same joys, sorrows, and sorrows as people, and of course they will also be afraid and afraid, and some mental illnesses are common to dogs, such as PTSD. ”
Zhang Zi'an: "PTSD?
Sun Xiaomeng: "PTSD is a post-traumatic stress disorder, which often occurs in soldiers returning from the battlefield, who have a deep fear of the cruel battlefield and cannot return to normal daily life, which is manifested in mental stress, nightmares, abnormal behavior, etc. There have been many cases of murder by veterans returning from the battlefield in the United States, and these are usually the work of ghostly PTSD. In fact, not only people can suffer from PTSD, but also dogs, and sudden bright lights and loud noises are often the triggers. ”
Zhang Zi'an: "...... To sum it up, that means that a police dog can get PTSD from a flashbang explosion at close range?"
Sun Xiaomeng: "It's entirely possible. ”
Zhang Zi'an: "What are the specific symptoms?"
Sun Xiaomeng: "There are records that military dogs returning from Iraq and Afghanistan will be very sensitive due to the frequent threat of car bombs on the battlefield, resist jumping into cars, hide when they see people, refuse to enter when they see the door, and if they are forcibly brought into the room, they will get under the bed and furniture to hide, especially afraid of bearded men...... Can you say that these battle-hardened military dogs are cowardly?"
Zhang Zi'an looked away from the screen of his mobile phone and looked at the police dog cowering in the corner of cage No. 5. Judging from the symptoms described by Sun Xiaomeng, this police dog Bacheng suffered from PTSD.
He messaged and asked, "Can that be cured?"
She didn't reply for a long time, Zhang Zi'an was about to open the way with a red envelope, and she suddenly replied.
Sun Xiaomeng: "Unfortunately, PTSD is very difficult to cure for people, I heard that the veterinary hospital of the U.S. military is implementing a PTSD treatment plan for military dogs, even if it can't make military dogs fully recover, but at least they can perform patrol missions and live a normal life after being discharged." However, since there is no foreign war in our country, no corresponding research has been carried out at present. ”
When Zhang Zi'an sent a message, he kept squatting, so that Feimas could see the screen of his mobile phone, and whispered the conversation between him and Sun Xiaomeng to it.
But seeing this, his heart suddenly moved, and he didn't know how to think of Feimas. He pretended to have a sore leg, thumped his legs to his feet, and quickly sent a message to the past.
Zhang Zi'an: "PTSD, does it only happen to veterans who have returned from the battlefield?"
Sun Xiaomeng: "No, seeing all cruel and terrible scenes, whether natural or man-made, can cause significant trauma to people's hearts and develop PTSD, including experiencing or watching wars, abuse, murder, car accidents, etc. ”
Zhang Zi'an asked again: "Can PTSD make people amnesia?"
Sun Xiaomeng: "Of course it is possible, this is a protective instinct reaction of people, and the trauma to the soul is too serious, and if you don't forget it, you can't live." ”
Zhang Zi'an glanced down at Feimas thoughtfully, and then asked, "What about dogs? If dogs suffer from PTSD, is it possible for them to lose their memory?"
Sun Xiaomeng: "...... Even if a dog has amnesia, how do you know?"
Zhang Zi'an didn't reply again, put the phone off screen back in his pocket, and pretended that nothing had happened.