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I was on board a destroyer, USS DuPont DD941 and in June of 1980, as we left the Bethlehem Steel Shipyards in Hoboken N.J., Our CO allowed a local stray dog on board and became part of our crew. We named him Rags and he traveled with us to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for refresher training and was on the ship more than a year later when I left the ship after a deployment in the Persian Gulf.
okay, now I just gotta ask the obvious question: who cleaned up after the dog?
Ya know, seeing as how a ship doesnt have neighbors with a nice grass lawn …
What about zombie pets?
Quarantine procedures? Most of the time Capt. Archer didn’t even bother putting Porthos on a leash. And IIRC there was an episode were Porthos caused a diplomatic incident with a newly contacted race by urinating on a sacred tree.
Interesting - I was on that same ship, a few years before you.
Man, you Star Treck People really crack me up. You guys actually discuss this stuff like it is real. No offense meant, just really makes me wonder.
That’s a bit sad. And unfair - if the grunts can have artillery bears, you’d think the navy boys could at least have a cool parrot or something.
Of course, the bear was enlisted. Maybe you could get away with it if your cockatoo can salute ?
[nostalgia] He looked like my Bootsie! [/nostalgia]
Really, though, after presiding over the sinking of Bismarck, maybe he wasn’t a jinx. But after Cossack they allowed him on another ship? Sailors, the most superstitious people on Earth?
A Captain of a US Navy ship at sea is pretty much as close as you can get to royalty in the country…so yes, I suppose he COULD have a pet if he wanted. That being said, while this may have happened in the past it’s not something that happens anymore.
Of course, now that I said this, someone is going to have an exception.
I have to admit I cannot remember who took care of Rags. It wasn’t part of my duty.
I remember reading one or more stories of WWII US submarines where there was a pet* cat aboard. Basically done by crew members; the Captain officially was unaware of this ‘stowaway’. But obviously, on a ship this small, he DID know – just chose not to do anything about it.
- The term pet may not actually apply. By catching mice & other vermin, cats work for their keep, and have been on ships for centuries.
Ships Cat has a long tradition.
Yes, this was mentioned, along with that link, on the day of the OP.
Carry on.
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