Guantanamo veterinary clinic

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Guantanamo Bay Naval Station Veterinary clinic.

The Guantanamo Naval Base has a veterinary clinic that provides veterinary care for official military working dogs, the pets of base personnel, has duties related to the wild animals on the base, and euthanizes the stray pets that can't be adopted.[1] Visiting experts regularly visit the clinic.[2]

Majid Khan's cat

In October 2012 reports emerged that Rahim al-Afghani, one of the other high-value detainees, held in Camp Platinum, was jealous because fellow captive Majid Khan was allowed to have a pet cat.[3][4] Following these reports Michelle Shephard reported that visitors could find a considerable number of stray and feral cats, former pets, abandoned by transient personnel, and the feral cats born to the former pets. It is base policy to euthanize non-native mammals.[5]

References

  1. "Veterinary Treatment Facility Details: Guantanamo Bay Naval Base". Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Archived from the original on 2013-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20130307015129/https://phc.amedd.army.mil/organization/Pages/VtfDetails.aspx?VtfID=75&loc=Cuba. Retrieved 2014-07-05. 
  2. Justin Smelley (2009-11-27). "Experiencing the Wild Side of GTMO". Guantanamo Bay Naval Base: The Wire (JTF-GTMO). p. 10. Archived from the original. Error: If you specify |archiveurl=, you must also specify |archivedate=. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:The_Wire_Issue40v10.pdf&page=10. Retrieved 2014-07-05. 
  3. Michelle Shephard (2012-10-20). "Guantanamo’s cats classified, like all else surrounding ‘Trial of the Century’". Guantanamo Bay: Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2013-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20130306070906/http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2012/10/20/guantanamos_cats_classified_like_all_else_surrounding_trial_of_the_century.html. Retrieved 2014-07-05. "Carlos Warner, the Cleveland federal public defender, wondered if Khan was given the cat as a reward for co-operating with prosecutors — something JTF-GTMO appears to deny." 
  4. Joshua Keating (2012-10-22). "The great Gitmo kitten mystery". Foreign Policy magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-11-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20121101004822/http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/22/the_great_gitmo_kitten_mystery. Retrieved 2014-07-05. "Bravo to Cleveland attorney Carlos Warner for realizing that the best way to get the internet to pay attention to a story about Guantanamo detainee Majid Khan is to make it about "adorable kittens"." 
  5. Gary W. Witmer, Martin Lowney, Harold McDaniel, Deanna Rees. "Assessment of Potential Cuban Hutia Management at U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba". National Wildlife Service. http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/04771803ch1.pdf. Retrieved 2014-02. "it has been already noted that a number of non- native mammalian species occur in Cuba. Some of these were introduced purposefully (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, white-tailed deer, and mongoose) while others arrived accidentally (commensal rodents such as Rattus spp. and Mus musculus)." 

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