The Amarillo Globe-Times from Amarillo, Texas • Page 35

U.S. Veterinary Clinic Has Brisk Business in Vietnam DA NANG, Vietnam A rather see a woman cry than see my dog cry," said the soldier as he cuddled a nondescript mutt named Sheila. The trooper was in the waiting room of a U.S. Army veterinary clinic, one of li busiest medical facilities in Vietnam, where everything from company mascots to water buffalo is treated. More than 300 dogs a month --not to mention an ever-increasing variety of other a i mals--are seen by the fpur ani- I mal medics headed by Capt.

Robert Brown, of Minnetonka, Minn. The fifth and most veteran member of the staff is Snowball, off-white mongrel that is self-appointed official greeter. consoler of nervous pooches and blood donor-in-residcnce for the military's scout and sentry dogs. Nobody knows where Snowball came from or when. "He's been here more than three years--longer than any of us," says Capt.

Harold Lupton, of Nampa. Idaho. "And nobody knows how many times he's given blood to save the life of another dog." The primary concern of 175th Veterinary Detachment isfs rabies. It is so prevalent in Viet- nam that some official esti- mates say one animal in every 25 has the disease, which can be fatal to animals and humans. Rabies is a major problem for the U.S.

military here because so many units and individual soldiers keep dogs and other animals as mascots. i Sometimes it's those other an-i-l imals that tax the skills Brown, Lupton and their staff. which also includes Capt. Man- rice Metcalfe of Branford, and Spec. 5 E.

L. Strickland of Bade City, Fla. One GI brought in a pet goose that had gotten tangled up in barbed wire. Another arrived i with a nine-foot python which js needed to have a cut sutured. "Some fellows have hi what they thought were a i ocelots," said Brown.

"But turned out tx be puppies or tens with spots painted on them. "I try to tell them that the 1 spots are just paint put on in the animal market, but often they have paid $20 for a baby ocelot and they just won't believe me --until the spots start to off." Some of the GT pets are passed on to new owners when the original owners return to the United But many soldiers and Marines become so at lached to the pets that they'll illi'milHilfiViVi'i brave any amount of red tape to take them home. The clinic staff recently has taken on the role of advisers to shrapne falo-- wt farmer farmer' i i i i I I I HIIII'l-ili South Vietnamese army pig and I Now the Vietnamese the Tin I dlick farms near Da Naug. At iNang area are beginning the request of U.S. Marine to the clinic.

action platoons in the area, "They consider their meat a Army vets also pay frequent imals far more valuable than visits to villages to treat live- their pets." said Lupton. "r'irst 1 stock. they'll bring in a dog for treat Most of this consists of i i If that goes all i i ilations, but once in a while bring in their pig. are called upon to pak'h up the; "Last week, we had a guy shrapne! wounds of a water buf-ihere with 25 chickens to be falo--which to a farmer is equal to the Kansas! End Adv FrL, PMs Feb. 14.

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