Army animals

[undercovers]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1577753,00.html

So flipper is packing heat for the military, but what other animals have been used by the worlds armed forces to help fight the good fight... what i'm looking for is most inventive / crazy use of animals in human conflict

[woofgang]

well here are the medal winners

http://www.emmathevet.co.uk/endal.asp

but I also recall something about saboteurs using (dead rats to disguise bombs?)

[Chessman]

Google 'militaryanimals' you'd be surprised,

[goldenboy]

the russians used bomb dogs in ww2, they  had a bomb with a stick trigger tied to their backs and were trained to run under tanks to blow up. unfortunately they were unable to distinguish between russian and german tanks. and i assume it was a waste of a food source at the time.