“Military dogs are awe-inspiring creatures, especially when attached to elite troops like the Navy SEALs. All day, the media have been in a frenzy over the fact that a military dog accompanied SEAL Team 6 on its mission to wax Osama bin Laden.
But let’s kill a misleading meme before it spreads further: Navy SEAL dogs don’t have titanium teeth.
A piece in The Daily took a good, detailed sniff around the German shepherds and Belgian Malinois that accompany special operations forces on patrol. But overshadowing all the cool radios and cameras strapped to the dogs is the claim that their “razor-sharp teeth are made of titanium,†at a cost of $2,000 per chomper. Getting bit by them “is like being stabbed four times at once with a bone crusher,†one dog trainer told The Daily.”