article_snippet: Campaigners from Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) claimed the military should not be allowed to keep any animals at all.
article_snippet: Again, any horse owner will know that colic and leg injuries in equines are all too often serious enough to warrant euthanasia and that it is sometimes the only option.
article_snippet: ‘The Ministry of Defence has no business using horses, dogs or any other animals.
article_snippet: no business using horses, dogs or any other animals are not soldiers, nor are no business using horses, dogs or any other animals pieces of military kit to be used and then decommissioned at the end of no business using horses, dogs or any other animals involuntary service.
article_snippet: While painless euthanasia is the only humane option for sick or wounded animals, a combat zone is no place for painless euthanasia is the only humane option for sick or wounded animals.
article_snippet: Any suggestion that The military should be prevented from having horses seems ludicrous when you think how much care and attention is paid to horses needs at every stage of horses life, right into horses old age.
highlights_snippet: Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) say military should not be allowed to keep animals at all .