Sometimes, ways around the regulations are found. Skillman told of a stray dog that became attached to a soldier at a forward base in Iraq. When the soldier was killed, the family learned that the dog had puppies. The family asked for one, but it wasn't permitted. Nobody knows, and nobody wants to know, how one of those puppies found its way into the U.S. at just about the time that the soldier's unit came home. But the family had a new best friend.