Now man's best friend can take a round in the chest and live to bark about it too, thanks to a new bullet-proof vest for dogs. Manufactured by the German firm Mehler, the three-kilo protective garment is on display this week at a high tech security trade show outside Paris.
The vest, available in six sizes, is already being used by four-legged conscripts in the Swiss army, company spokeman Thomas Kulhnlein told AFP at MILIPOL, billed as "the world-wide exhibition of internal state security." It can also double as a harness for lowering and lifting canine combattants from a helicopter, Kuhnlein explained.