"The dog meat trade in Vietnam is not only a disaster for animal welfare, but also incompatible with efforts to eradicate rabies in dogs," says HSI Vietnam chief Quang Nguyen.

On July 17, 2025, in Da Nang, Vietnam, @septravel shared a video of two dogs calmly enjoying an outdoor air walker. In the ...

A man uses a steel stick to move dogs before slaughtering them at a wholesale supplier of live dogs, one of the biggest in town, in Hanoi, Vietnam on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011.

Item 1 of 3 A man carries a dog as he attends a dog show in Hanoi October 5, 2013. Times in Vietnam are changing, where a love for dogs goes beyond the soups and barbecues that have earned the ...

In Vietnam, U.S. troops used dogs for sentry duty, tunnel detection and as trackers. They could alert their handlers to hidden dangers, such as snipers and trip wires, and could detect hidden ...

The dog had discovered a mine was hidden at the spot. More than 4,000 dogs were trained for scouting, tracking, sentry duty, mine/tunnel detection and water patrols during the Vietnam War.

Thomsen: "To immediately go to Vietnam, or they had a program at Fort Benning to train scout dog handlers. I always did like dogs, so sure, I'd like to work with the dogs.

In Vietnam, U.S. troops used dogs for sentry duty, tunnel detection and as trackers. They could alert their handlers to hidden dangers, such as snipers and trip wires, and could detect hidden ...