DOGGY BOOT CAMP FOR 'PROBLEM CHILD'? Published Dec. 12, 2007 By Angela Hudson Via e-mail -- I have a dog that is probably going to be destroyed. He bit a 13-year-old kid. Even though I think the kid provoked him by kicking at him, I have to go to court to decide if the dog should be put to death. He is a very smart, energetic dog. I feel the military might be just what he needs. I read the article about "Doggy Boot Camp" in the May/June 2007 issue of Torch (page 8), but there was no information on how to get your dog in that program. I would just love to save him -- he is a wonderful dog! I love him dearly, as do my children, and he has been a very loyal and protective friend to us. If you can give me more information on how to get him in the doggy boot camp, I would be forever grateful. He just might go from problem dog to hero. He deserves a chance! Please help him. It just might be mutually beneficial to the dog and our country. According to the military working dogs procurement unit with the 341st Training Squadron at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, they do not take canine donations. Their dogs are procured from stateside and overseas vendors, as well as their local breeding program. They said their consignment standards are extremely rigorous and that 70 percent of the dogs they look at don't make the cut (and those dogs already are trained to standard).