Soviet K-9 Dog Kennels

Soviet Combat Engineers used dogs to sniff for land mines during their war in Afghanistan. German shepherds were the breed of choice.
These pictures show the remains of a Soviet K-9 dog barracks. They were built using the same mud construction that the Afghans use for their homes.

You can still see the small kennels used to house each dog. It's amazing that the mud construction has lasted this long.

The Afghans tried a number of ways to baffle the Soviet Union's dogs, like wrapping the mines in cellophane or sprinkling them with motor oil. Neither method was very successful.

Dogs are still used today to help locate the thousands of land mines left in this country.