(Photo pleasantness of Army Sgt. Amanda Ingraham, around SoldierDogs.com)

A dog’s paw, a sergeant’s boot. “He had outrageous feet, a outrageous heart,” Army Sgt. Amanda Ingraham told me of her former troops operative dog, Rex.

I’m posting this print since Anna Zeman, Dogster’s amicable media guru, is looking for anything big-dog-oriented for Big Dogs Week on Dogster. And this duke belonged to one large dog — Ingraham’s noble, peaceful hulk of a German Shepherd.

(Photo pleasantness of Amy Sgt. Amanda Ingraham. You can learn Rex’s story in my arriving book, Soldier Dogs.)