[cyberia]

Here's what I know about the anti-tank dogs program.

As an extension of the Pavlovian Theory, these dogs were starved and then trained to find food hidden under Russian training tanks. Once this had been achieved the dogs would be fitted with an explosive charge and set loose to run toward German tanks. When the dog went underneath the tank a device would be triggered detonating the explosives below the the weakest point of the tank's armor thus destroying it.

The German's called these Hundeminen, and Russian sources claim as many as three hundred German tanks were destroyed in such manner.

German sources however claim these dogs were as much a threat to Soviet tanks as German due to the dogs often heading toward the more familiar Russian tanks as they had been trained to do.

In a German field report filed in 1942 these dogs were said to had fled from flame throwing tanks back into Russian lines causing enough of a threat to force the retreat of a Russian division.

Which ever version you care to believe, Panzer grenadiers were issued orders to shoot any dogs approaching panzer columns, and the Soviets did suspend the use of anti-tank dog units in 1942.