Rescue Animals

[Garibaldi]

Some of is were simply born with a heart.

If I only had a heart...

[A.Member]

Agreed.   This is an opportunity to be left with other organizations.  It does not fit in with the core objectives of CAP.

Just to clarify, I was not suggesting this was a mission for CAP to fulfill, rather stating that as individuals who are professional volunteer responders it behooves us to expand our training as much as possible so that in an actual mission if there is a need that we can fill even outside of our CAP capacity and we are on-site already that type of service will be remembered and will echo back to CAP regardless of any official CAP support of whatever the said mission was. Also, that is why I recommend clearing with the DOS/DOST that it is acceptable to do so if you are on-site, in uniform, as part of a CAP response. My guess would be the answer is yes, as long as it does not effect your ability to fulfill the CAP mission. In other words, if you are a GTL and your team is about to be deployed on a sortie, don't disappear to go rescue a dog - but if you are just sitting around the ICP and the need arises, feel free to do so (that would be my policy if I were the powers that be -- of course that may be why I am not the powers that be)

And to add clarification to my statement...it shouldn't even be up for discussion/consideration at any level.  CAP has no role in this at all.  Period.