I hate it when law enforcement and the military use animals for anything requiring force or risking injury. Search and rescue and sniffing for things is fne by me, but animals have no part in direct human conflict, real or imagined, IMHO.

of the Cossacks' behavior during the pogroms in Ukraine* at the turn of the century.
"They came on horses with their sticks and hit us on the head." Her exact words.

*Ekaterinoslav- now Dnipro)