Ok I understand where your coming from with the rules in play but I'll get to that. As far as spaying and neutering yes I say that should be done there is a bad feral cat problem where I live because people don't know how to keep track of an animal and feel cats should be aloud to roam blocks away from their houses with no issues, that's another huge pet peeve of mine but off track, spay and neutering yes if you don't plain on breeding it should be done. Then the shelter animals now this is the one that I struggle with personally, when I was looking for my first I'm an adult now dog I knew I wanted it to be a rescued pit bull, and the pounds are full of them I found my girl at an event we have around here to pair adoption places up with people looking for dogs and I found my girl, she's a rescued fighting dog that at the time I found her was missing a few patches of hair had become over weight at the pound and was scared of the world around her and just needed someone to take her and take her and give her some love so I did so I can't say I think that all shelter animals should be put down but I will give you an animal that has no chance of being re-homed, be that dogs that bite people or that can't be in the same area as another animal with out killing it, or in the case of a feral animal, but not just because their takin up space if they have a chance at a new home give them some time to find it. Maybe a better screening system in place for people taking the animals or something along that lines to help prevent the saving and flipping of an animal. Ok and back to the rules in place saying the military can't do whatever with animals they find (sorry not in the military have friends and family that are so anything I say comes from stories from them.) well my big question is how many bases are actually in forcing this rule because Bruce's story isn't the first story like this I've heard where a group of soldiers find a dog and it becomes like a pet to them. My cousin in the Air Force has a story about a cat(I believe that's what it was) that called their dorms home and the guys living there took care of the cat and slept with it. Hell an old dude from the nursing home I work at served over in WW2 got started breeding dogs because of a dog he had (and brought home) over there. But to be fair in the WW2 guy that was an American trained dog used to run messages I think cuz it sounded like the dog went over their with their group and he was one of the main care givers. So my point of my rambling is it happens its human nature to care for something that in return shows loyalty or compassion back specially when the other locals aren't to thrilled to see you. Sorry if this sounds kind of rambling like doing this on a phone isn't easy. But Bruce I hope your able to get this guy home so one of your group can keep him (is he going to you or one of the other guys?) if I wasn't scraping the bottom as of late I'd help out but I'm here as support an sending good vibes. Ok book done sorry anyone who read this far