Looks like the groundswell of support for Sgt. Gwen Beberg’s plight actually resulted in something positive.  According to CNN, Ratchet is on his way to being reunited with his adopted owner.

“She was absolutely miserable in the war and was really struggling to keep going every day. Ratchet turned it around for her,” SPCA spokeswoman Stephanie Scroggs said last week.

Beberg’s mother, Patricia Beberg, in a statement released by the SPCA, said Ratchet “was the savior of her [daughter's] sanity” in Iraq.

SPCA representatives said the military euthanizes some animals that it confiscates, and that Gwen Beberg worried that Ratchet would be killed.

Beberg was thrilled to hear last week that the military would let OBP take Ratchet, the SPCA said.

“Your persistence and amazing work has astonished me throughout this whole thing,” Gwen Beberg said in an e-mail to the SPCA, according to the society.

Scroggs said one of Beberg’s friends helped spread the news about Ratchet through blogs. One of the petitions, which had more than 65,000 signatures as of Sunday night, was started by a blogger, Scroggs said.

Maybe silly little blogs like this can actually do some good.

Heart-tugging story of Army Sgt. Gwen Beberg, trying to bring a rescued dog in Iraq back home to the states with her.  If left in Iraq, the dog faces certain death on the streets.

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Army to let an Iraqi puppy come home with a Minnesota soldier, who fears that “Ratchet” could be killed if left behind.

“I just want my puppy home,” Sgt. Gwen Beberg of Minneapolis wrote to her mother in an e-mail Sunday from Iraq, soon after she was separated from the dog following a transfer. “I miss my dog horribly.” Beberg, 28, is scheduled to return to the U.S. next month.

The petition site can be found here.