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My pet conspiracy too, I wonder if they exist to make eating less meat seem like a countercultural emotional thing for sophomoric hippies to the average person instead of a sensible thing to do.
Food industry lobbying/marketing is wild, take bacon as a breakfast food for example. The Bernays approach is still out there, I once met someone on a plane who worked for DFA and has a job flying around convincing fast food chains to add more cheese to their menu. They had some stories.
Similarly, Green Peace and Sea Shepard make environmentalism seem radical and militant instead of sensible and necessary, and I wonder if they're funded by the oil industry.
Tinfoil hat off.
I'm surprised PETA doesn't have people dressed up marching like this in every parade. They can probably get a bunch of people to do it and have idiotrod races to raise money.
There is a human race on the Iditarod trail called the “itc”.
Humans can choose to finish by either fat tire bike, xc skis, or running.
This race occurs before the dog sled one by a few weeks…. Meaning conditions are usually colder/more brutal.
You don't get to snuggle by your masters feet by the fire at the end of the day and eat the best cuts of meat.
We are more like the horses that pull carts.
Read Jack London. Those dogs used to get foot rubs at the end of the day. They were treated way better than we are.
It just started snowing about 10 min ago, hasn't even accumulated yet and my dog is standing in front of the coat closet where I keep his sled-pull harness and staring at me impatiently like *"Ahem.... Is it time yet? No? Ok, how about NOW, does now work for you?"*
It's 9pm so he'll have to wait 'til tomorrow to have the chance to run around pulling weights (or people under 160lb) in his beloved T-Rex sled. But right now he'll probably spend the next hour standing next to the dang closet door politely, very well-behaved but making it abundantly clear with his expectant eye contact that he feels the conditions upon which he may expect us to get his inflatable sled ("there must be snow") have been met, and he is aware of no other such conditions that should prevent him from using it NOW.
Dog tax: [floof with his T-Rex sled](https://imgur.com/a/bqGHhhf)
Man I'm still too asleep because for just a second on reading this I thought of the [F-22 Raptor](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/F-22_Raptor_edit1_%28cropped%29.jpg/1600px-F-22_Raptor_edit1_%28cropped%29.jpg)
A lot of little kids in my neighborhood (who go nuts when they see my dog running around with the T-Rex sled) often ask what the T-Rex's name is. I should pick a name I guess but I haven't really thought of anything worthy yet...
Oh no you must not have had good experiences with black cats. They are usually the sweetest of all cats. Orange cats are definitely the dum-dums though, followed by the fluffy brown and gray tabbies.
Can confirm: have a coolie/Aussie/pyr rescue. The SOB is too smart he knows how to stealthily traverse the house with blankets and pillows to ruin.
Jokes aside, when he was hyper-active, when he was younger, we could get him to fetch specific toys and put them away in his basket, as well as put certain clothes away in their proper drawers.
Now he has embraced his inner Great Pyr and is a lump on a log.
My husky loved to pull me on my scooter. I’d even put a hot dog on a stick to get her running lol.
The sled dogs always look so excited and happy to get running-they love it!
From my experience having a husky, using them for sleds is like using a sail for ships.
They're already gonna be running just like the wind is already gonna be blowing. We're just giving them a direction and something to move.
Well although many might have husky in them, I’ve met a few people in my area that run Iditarods, and thier dogs.
There were very few that even resembled Huskys. Maybe it was just the ones I met though. They were the happiest when realizing they were going to run a sled either way. They definitely weren’t being forced to.
Often they are now mixes of hounds with various husky/arctic breeds. Apparently they endure better and have greater speed. There aren’t many racers that have a 100% pure husky/arctic breed kennel anymore. I know that a few mushers I talked to when I lived in Fairbanks, AK would rave about the mix my girl is (Malamute/labrador mix) and how good a mix they are for racing.
I get the impression that many of these PETA folks have never spent time around *any* animals in real life. If they care about animals, it's in an entirely abstract fashion that's only marginally connected to reality.
Which is a fucking dumb ass take. Most domesticated animals need human companionship, its bred into them for thousands of years. Its unethical to deny them that companionship, esp dogs.
Plus you can't tell me a happy, long-lived pet isn't better off than the same animal living a short, miserable life in the wild (although I will agree that it is unethical to inappropriately keep caged animals in unnatural conditions).
People who think giving certain dog breeds jobs is cruel have never been around these dogs. Huskies want to run, Malignois want any task, border collies want to herd and bloodhounds want to track. And want= desperately need to or will be neurotic/depressed
I only really have experience with border collies but yes. A border wants two things: to herd something and to work in tandem with his human.
I've once tried to get a specific horse from a herd on a very large field. After watching me for 10 minutes, a border collie that was just chilling nearby got up, went to work and delivered the correct horse directly to me. Just looking at me like "what? Like it's hard?"
Can confirm. My friend's malinios holds a part time job bagging groceries at the corner minimart, started a mildly successful neighborhood tree trimming business as a hobby a few summers ago, and helps out with basic 1040s at the community center during tax season. He was trying to pick up lace crochet, but was struggling bc, yknow, thumbs.
My Dalmatian (which are also endurance dogs — they were bred to run next to horses all day) has a tendon industry and is currently on an exercise restriction. So she can only have leashed walks (though I can only give her about 3-4 hours a day. She got 3-4 hours a day before, but more than half of it was off-leash and sprinting.)
Even with 300mg of gabapentin twice a day to help keep her calm (she’s only 40 lbs) we are both going through absolute hell. She’s losing her mind. She’s dug up half the yard (which is cardio that can’t hurt her tendons!) She’s destroyed several books. She’s harassing my cats. She’s stopped listening to commands. All while taking a *sedative-level* dose of gabapentin.
I very often get “I’ve never met such a nice Dalmatian before!” and my answer always was “you’ve never met one that gets enough exercise before.”
But I didn’t really realize just how true that was.
Send help.
Yeah I pup sat for a guy with a German Shepard. Took her for a super long hike where she wanted to play fetch ***the entire hike*** and when I got back, I was laying on the sofa, DEAD TIRED and she was barking at me all evening wanting me to throw her the ball. I tried to get her up on the sofa to lay down and she NIPPED at me.
Also during her constant fetch mania I accidentally stepped on one of many of her fetch sticks that she found (I had since given up) and right when I stepped on it, she grabbed it in her mouth, snapping the stick and giving me a decent cut up my leg.
Needless to say, that was the last time I pup sat for him. Not the dogs fault, she just had so much energy and probably never got out. She was nuts though.
I have never had a dog so consicely and grumpily chew me out and point out all my shortcommings like a husky being dragged back inside. I don't know exactly what he's saying but I know it is some biting commentary.
Only that late?! You're lucky mate! My cats have all liked to do this at 1 or 2am. What fun is when they get really wild and start fucking shit up in the kitchen.
My cat in between 5-530am finds one of her stuffed toys and climbs on my bed and pushes it down between the side of the bed and the wall and then tries to pull back up and if she can’t she’ll go under the bed and claw at it from the bottom and pull on the mattress with her claws
5-530am every single morning… I can’t stop her
The poem "Fog" by Carl Sandburg reads:
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
#
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
#
My mom says that if the fog really came in on little cat feet, no one would ever get any sleep on foggy nights.
I took my old, arthritic husky to a hardware store yesterday after she had already had a few hours playing with the in-laws dog and she still tried to pull even though she could hardly get traction on the smooth floors. Dogs love to do what they're bred for.
A number of dogs per year are raced to death.
When I lived in the Yukon there would be rescue dogs from racing, and they certainly needed to run 2 hours every second day, but not 20 hours a day up and down mountains for a week. I was also on relatedanimal committees.
Not advocating anything, this is just first hand info.
Yeah forcing dogs to pull a sled until they die is not the same as training them to be sled dogs in general. It’s the difference between telling a football player to play their scheduled games, and forcing them to play endless games until they die of exhaustion/injuries.
One is a game, the other is torture/murder. The book The Call of the Wild illustrates this very well, as the main character (a sled dog) bounces between cruel owners and kind ones.
I had to look after a husky for a day... it just got foisted onto me.
Forget "they don't mind" they will actively go insane if they don't get to run around for a few hours every day. I physically could not keep up with it so I settled on strapping a lawn chair to an old toboggan and letting it pull me around in the snow for an hour and a half. I got the grocery shopping done at least with that and the entire neighbourhood got a good laugh.
This husky wasn't even a sled dog, it was just a home pet but it loved pulling the sled around and got sad when I took it off and it's owners came to pick it up. As for why I refer to the husky as it, my younger brother foisted it onto me for the last day and I have no idea of the gender of the dog.
My girlfriend has a husky that she goes to the dog run with and yells "go go go!!" And cheers and claps as he runs up and down the dog run and screams. He is happy to do this infinitely
I'll bet, those dogs can RUN. It's insane how much energy they have. So far the only things I've seen that can keep up with a husky are small children.
It's not just burst energy either, but endurance.
Huskies can run +100 miles in a single day. They're up there just below humans in regard to overall endurance.
Last year I found an escaped husky running around. Long story short the dog was chipped and I was able to find the owner, who lived around the corner. Not the first time the dog got out, the owner told me. Huskies are notorious for escaping because they want to run around and work.
Seriously. My Samoyed needs her "mush time". It's she's not actively in the snow or pulling our mush training bike, she throws a tantrum.
But then again when has PETA ever made a comparison that wasn't ridiculous, uninformed, or weirdly sexual. Or, like here, all three.
"Vegetarian" dog/cat videos come to mind where the owner puts a meat dish and a vegan dish in front of the animal and they're like "watch, my pet will eat the vegan dish" then the animal eats the meat dish... every time.
Oof, reminds me of a time met a Bernese Mountain dog at the park and I assumed she was still a puppy because she was so small. For those that don’t know, the typical weight of a full grown female Bernese Mountain dog is 70-95 lbs, this dog was easily ~50, and she looked to be the same size as my 45 lb dog. Her owner and I started talking and I asked how old the pup was and she said “oh, she turns 5 in a few weeks”. I exclaimed how surprised I was to hear that because she was so small - I believe my words were close to “oh my! She’s a small one huh?” - and the woman got visible irritated and said “no, she’s a normal size! She just doesn’t have all those toxins from meat in her body making her unnecessarily large! And before you go off on your high horse, her vet says it’s perfectly healthy to have her on a vegan diet!” She then grabbed her dog and marched off. Out of curiosity I asked a vet friend of mine who said that was very underweight for that type of dog, and could really hurt her in the long-run as she grows older. Poor pup.
Shows they are also not capabel to properly train their pet. It is not hard to train pets discipline, even with food. All my dogs wait till I give them the command for eating (no worries they get lavischly rewarded for it!)
This. You could drop a full steak on the ground in my house and my dogs won't move a muscle until they are told it's ok to eat it. Helps keep them from scavenging at my kids feet or taking food from her hand.
Move him farther away from the bowl to wait, and you may need to actually pick the bowl up. My jack had the same issue and the minute he moved without me saying so I picked the bowl up and we repeated. Record was 25 times of setting the bowl down before he actually stayed but most nights he picked it up quick. Also worth noting that when it wasn't meal time I would use training treats for the same thing essentially. Put it on the ground and work on stay and feed command.
Wish I could remember where to find it, but I remember watching a video of a vet proving just how stupid people who do this are.
He had a dog which legitimately couldn't eat meat due to a gut problem. Whenever the dog ate meat it could get dangerously ill, would definitely cause pain and discomfort.
So the vet put it's usual food, which it happily eats, next a bowl of meat or wet food. Dumb fucker went straight for the meat.
Obviously, the dog had vomiting induced before it caused problems and I think they were already going to have to induce vomiting for some reason, so the vet was just taking advantage of the opportunity to make the point, it wasn't just done for the sake of the video.
As a former huskey owner I can conform they literally want nothing more then running for several hours straight
Edit i didn't expect this to blow up so much thanks everyone ps stop asking me all these questions I'm not a sled dog trainer and don't have all the awnsers you will probably get better awnsers doing you're own research and I need to sleep
I had a huskey growing up, and one of my chores when I got home from school was strapping on some roller blades and letting her pull me around the neighborhood. The first 15 minutes were always a blast. The second 15 minutes I tolerated. The 3rd 15 minutes I did because I loved her. One of my greatest regrets is never seeing how long she would have gone if I hadn't been the one to cut it off after the 3rd 15 minutes.
Ours would literally just decide to bolt out the door literally before we could close it then running 3 blocks away then coming back at a certain point we stopped trying to catch her because she would see it as race wich would cause her to run for longer she always came back though eventually
I loved that dog but also low-income Americans with 0 yard space shouldn't have huskeys
She would either run away or dedicate her energy to tearing apart the entire apartment instead
We had a husky/cattle dog mix. We had our oldest hop on his bike and run him. The first 3/4 mile was full speed pulling the bike. The last 1/4 was a steady run next to it. He got out one night and bolted, my kids freaked out. Took off after him. I went outside, sat on the porch, and had a beer. The dog was home 20 mins before the kids. He knew where his food came from. When he was out running, you could see his smile.
The issue with Iditarod is the $600k financial incentive to breed and train the best of the best. Since dogs don't have protection or communication it has led to a lot of animal cruelty.
It's ridiculous that PETA can taint a whole conversation in ridiculousness when they could just say: here's some evidence of avoidable cruelty against animals by people who are just trying to enrich themselves, why are we allowing this. Examples include inhumane killings, and not giving proper vet care and continuing to race/train injured dogs, cages too small with too many dogs in them, etc.
It’s the same with racehorses. Many times you will see a jockey accidentally drop their whip and the horses are still pushing themselves to compete as hard as possible. They love the race.
There's a notorious example of a racehorse in Melbourne that was training to become a police horse after his years were over.
It was a disaster. Pulling up at lights and watching everything take off, he figured they wanted to race and would bolt. And God help you if he heard a tram bell chiming.
That's both unfortunate and hilarious. I thought racehorses were skittish and mean and that's why they are escorted by calm horses to the gate? Couldn't imagine trying to get one to mellow out enough to be a police horse.
He was a gelding, and apparently had a lovely temperment, from everything I read the problem was simply that he thought the a day ending in y meant everything else in the city (and police horses in Melbourne only operate in the city) wanted to race him.
Its hardly surprising. Even putting aside the training they put racehorses through, we've been selectively breeding them for racing now for literal *centuries.*
If you know anything about sled dog racing you know that:
1. The dogs are literally bred and trained for this. If you’re at a kennel for sled dogs- watch how they react upon seeing the sled. They lose their little doggy minds!
2. On the Iditarod trail the dogs are treated better than the people. Dogs are examined by vets at every checkpoint and if found wanting they are air lifted back to the closest city.
3. Dogs descend into depression when forced to “retire”
Edit to add: never been a musher myself but talked to some of them and when they stop it’s often 50 below zero and pitch black and the musher’s first responsibility is to lay straw for the dogs, take care of the dogs’ feet, heat up the dog food and feed it to them (the dogs have to eat _extremely_ fast when it’s that cold because otherwise their food turns to a block of ice in seconds), _massage the dogs_ (yes that happens- if the dogs are cramping or limping then you need to get the knots out) and then, with any short time remaining in a 2 hour stop, the musher can close their eyes for 15 minutes before getting the team back up, putting their gear back, and continuing on a race that can last for 8 days.
About #3: drug dogs have this issue too. When weed became legal in CO all the dogs had to be retired and replaced with dogs that don't hit on pot. (Arguments about effectiveness aside here). One guy took to hiding a baggie of weed somewhere in the house for his retired drug dog. That doggo was always visibly happy to be on the job for his daily search and reward for finding the baggie.
My heeler would herd my livestock all day long if I let her... They love these tasks because just like humans they enjoy feeling useful and having accomplishments.
I am the staff to retired racing greyhounds. My current two are race track flunkies who never really raced, but they still go insane when there are rabbits and squirrels to chase. My OG girl raced a nearly full career and was a decent racer. She would barely walk more than a mile at a time, but the couple times we did some lure coursing, she absolutely broke ear drums SCREAMING to get at the BUNNNIIEEEEEES!!!!!! Like I had to practically hog tie her and blind fold her to keep her contained when waiting for her turn and to get her off the field after her run. She LOVED chasing things and would run herself to the point of collapse if I let her. And we haven’t tried any sort of lure chase with our current pair, but I suspect they’d be absolutely thrilled to do what they do. So anyone who says breeds of dog that are purpose bred (racers, hunting dogs, herders, etc) are unhappy doing their thing, it’s a hell of a lot harder to KEEP them from doing their job than getting them motivated
Border Collies are known difficult dogs because they’re smart and want ALL the jobs. I’ve had Weimaraners and Poodles too - lots of dogs want jobs, even when you don’t feel like they need one. It’s about solving boredom.
My lab mix goes crazy when she hears the trash bag being removed from the trash barrel. She knows it's her job to take the trash out with me. Such a pain in the ass chore for me is the best thing in the world for her. She loves for those little tasks. Forget something in the car? She's there to help you get it.
Second this. I have a corgi and a scottie. The corgi herds us all, all day. She has a schedule, and by God all the animals in this house (including humans) will follow the boss lady’s schedule. She delights in running a tight ship.
My Scottie has two modes. Chilling with his peeps and “How am I going to kill that.” Lizards, Rats, Squirrels, etc have all been happily hunted in my backyard. Most have escaped, but the few that didn’t made a Scottie’s day. The pride he has in the hunt, you couldn’t train.
Alaskan and former musher (it's expensive as hell to buy high protein/fat content dogfood for 30+ active athletes) here:
idk who told you it's 50 below zero that often but it really isn't that often. Definitely not in the first part of the race. For example, it's been 40 degrees above more days than it hasn't this month, down here at the starting line.
Your other points are mostly true. It's well intentioned.
There are a number of mandatory "layovers" where the teams have to rest for a certain amount of time... for example there is a 24 hour layover, some smaller 8 hour ones, etc. Part of a teams strategy is deciding what checkpoints to take them at. Those are only the mandatory ones. Many teams choose to take longer ones or take rests more often. I only bring this up because the whole "2 hour break" is disingenuous... teams are much better rested than that. They have to be, because this is a marathon, not a sprint.
My kennel used an equivalent time of running to resting, as we were more of a hobbyist team, so 4 hours on and 4 hours off, with some longer rests if they seemed sore.
The dogs do seem to enjoy this.
It would be like an anthropomorphized dog walked up to me and said, "I'm going to need you to play video games for me for 10 hours a day. If you do this I'm going to give you a treat of hamburgers and beer."
I'd be depressed when I retire from that life too...
Also if youve ever seen a former sled dog after being rehomed they NEED to work… they are miserable if they can’t exercise HARD everyday.
In Alaska where sled dogs are still a legitimate means of transportation, sled dogs are treated better than most people and even when the owners don’t need to get somewhere they have to take their dogs out for at least an hour run just to burn off their pent up energy because they need to run and pull.
peta completely destroys their own credibility when they start personifying animals with human traits and tolerances for extreme conditions.
Can confirm.
Older dogs often become depressed as a result of inactivity.
Peta is one of those organisations that started with bigger issues to address. Whilst it still has issues to address, once they've addressed any one specific project, all you're left with is a bunch of people who need to justify the existence of their jobs/ the scale of operation.
It happens in almost all instances of organisations that are set up to solve specific issues. Usually, if this doesn't happen, it's because the problem remains ongoing or wasn't really solvable to begin with.
^ This is hugely reductionist. I realise it's not some kind of blanket fact. I know there are many, many other factors to consider. Just the general jist of how these institutions often end up saying stupid shit.
My father did a race in Labrador. Before he hit the check point that night he got caught in a storm and the dogs refused to go further. He had to stay where he was and almost died. Next morning he was only a few hundred feet from shelter.
Years later I was on a business trip in Sweden and met some Mayors from Newfoundland and Labrador. I told the story to one of the Labrador Mayors. Turns out he organized the race and knew my father.
Honestly denying a working breed of dog the opportunity to work is usually more torturous(not sure that's even a word) than the work ever could be. I have a friend who raises hunting dogs and those dogs get way better care than some people I've known. They loose their shit and get depressed when they don't get to hunt or train for hunting. Some of them that don't quite make the cut have to go to high energy owners that will exercise them and give them a regular job to do or they suffer from depression or behavioral issues. Have you ever owned a husky or known someone that had one? Did said husky destroy the house or have behavioral issues? That's probably because huskies need a ton of exercise and attention. In my mind someone that has a working dog like a husky and doesn't work the dog properly, then gets upset when it acts up, is more of an animal abuser than a sled dog competitor. Be mad at those people, not the ones putting a dog solely bred for a job to the task of doing its job! Dogs aren't like most people, they often enjoy working and performing tasks.
I have an Alaskan husky. He's turning 9 this year, so he isn't as active as he was, but he still gets pissed if we don't do our walks. He likes at least 60 minutes a day total. When he was younger, it was an hour minimum at the dog park plus walks.
Sure your indoor husky that’s never seen snow might not enjoy the entire race without training, but those sled dogs are having the time of their lives out there. They love it. How your at home dog reacts to a new bone or a cheeseburger, that’s how those sled dogs react to the sled.
As someone who has spent time around my cousin’s Alaskan malamutes, yes they do. *Yes they fucking do.* I’ve never seen a dog get more excited in my fucking life than when my friend would bring out the sled and the equipment, those dogs absolutely *lost their minds* every time they realized they were going to get to pull the sled. I’m pretty sure you could have given them each a freshly cooked steak and they’d abandon it to pull that sled in a heartbeat.
Now granted, the Iditarod is not a casual dog-sledding trip and it’s probably pretty harsh on the digs, especially if you’re not being careful to watch their health closely, but the act of training sled dogs to, well, pull sleds, is not cruel in the slightest. It’s less comparable to slavery and more comparable to an athlete getting hyped before a game.
You know, for an organization that claims to advocate for the ethical treatment of animals, it always amazes me how shockingly ignorant PETA is about the animals they decide to represent.
I used to live in the Yukon, and can confirm, the dogs want to pull and run as fast as they can for hours. I had a dog that was from a sled dog breeder - many teams run mixed breed dogs for the different attributes, and a popular mix is Husky Lab Shepard - about 85 pounds, curly tail, floofy like a wolf.
If you put a leash on his collar, it was borderline animal abuse because he'd pull so hard he'd start to choke and cough. A harness was the only humane way to walk that dog and I could never walk him or brush him enough. He'd run until his paws were bloody and then yell at you like a whiny spoiled brat when it was over.
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I'd buy that!!!
You’d win the Ugly Sweater contest at work! And possibly get fired!
haha with some of my past bosses I'd be worried I'd get "promoted"
Do you work for Activision Blizzard
Spicy today, are we?
Shots fired!
A joke so funny, HR would want to see it.
You know the joke isreally good when the HR representative calls you to make you explain it to then
I wore the Human Santapiede sweater to work and i won the bad sweater contest. I won a little plastic trophy but lost some respect with the owner. :(
What kind of humorless drone can't appreciate that!? Sad really.
I had to look it up. Damn me.
You can get custom printed shirts for decent prices
I want one too
At this point i feel like most of PETA are trolls and they are fine with it. Like they go home and eat meat still and do stupid propaganda.
My pet conspiracy theory is that PETA is a psyop by the meat industry to make vegans, vegetarians, and animal rights activists look bad.
It's working
Seriously…if that’s what’s happening it’ll go down in history as one of the greatest false flag campaigns of all time
Might be up there. Putin still the GOAT for this alone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings
I strongly suspect that the recent Moscow music hall shooting is also going to turn out to be ultimately Putin's doing.
My pet conspiracy too, I wonder if they exist to make eating less meat seem like a countercultural emotional thing for sophomoric hippies to the average person instead of a sensible thing to do. Food industry lobbying/marketing is wild, take bacon as a breakfast food for example. The Bernays approach is still out there, I once met someone on a plane who worked for DFA and has a job flying around convincing fast food chains to add more cheese to their menu. They had some stories. Similarly, Green Peace and Sea Shepard make environmentalism seem radical and militant instead of sensible and necessary, and I wonder if they're funded by the oil industry. Tinfoil hat off.
oh, lookit this guy, he keeps conspiracies as pets! SET THEM FREE -peta
And apparently they're furries & have it in them to plow 2 bottoms at the same time.
It's furry BDSM porn and PETA knows it. Some guys are at home looking at this and playing one man tug-of-war right now.
Aren't there people who would pay to do this?
Usually you have to pay extra!
I'm surprised PETA doesn't have people dressed up marching like this in every parade. They can probably get a bunch of people to do it and have idiotrod races to raise money.
Idiotrod races, 😂
Glad somebody finally got it. =)
I noticed the spelling but read it as idio-trod
There is a human race on the Iditarod trail called the “itc”. Humans can choose to finish by either fat tire bike, xc skis, or running. This race occurs before the dog sled one by a few weeks…. Meaning conditions are usually colder/more brutal.
A couple guys in leather thongs pulling a furry on the Iditarod for 938 miles would probably take a month but it would raise millions for PETA
I'd watch the livestream. It'd be like witnessing the Twitch Pokemon playthrough.
It would be like the kink Olympics
We basically do this all day every day, but the husky is just a multinational corporation.
You don't get to snuggle by your masters feet by the fire at the end of the day and eat the best cuts of meat. We are more like the horses that pull carts. Read Jack London. Those dogs used to get foot rubs at the end of the day. They were treated way better than we are.
We are Boxer from Animal Farm. It was true 100 years ago and it is true today.
"This better not awaken anything in me."
My best friend has a husky, that bitch would die of depression If she doesn't run 2 thousand miles every hour.
It just started snowing about 10 min ago, hasn't even accumulated yet and my dog is standing in front of the coat closet where I keep his sled-pull harness and staring at me impatiently like *"Ahem.... Is it time yet? No? Ok, how about NOW, does now work for you?"* It's 9pm so he'll have to wait 'til tomorrow to have the chance to run around pulling weights (or people under 160lb) in his beloved T-Rex sled. But right now he'll probably spend the next hour standing next to the dang closet door politely, very well-behaved but making it abundantly clear with his expectant eye contact that he feels the conditions upon which he may expect us to get his inflatable sled ("there must be snow") have been met, and he is aware of no other such conditions that should prevent him from using it NOW. Dog tax: [floof with his T-Rex sled](https://imgur.com/a/bqGHhhf)
Why did I not expect an actual T-Rex?
I just assumed it was a brand. This is way, WAY better!
Same! I assumed it was some fancy sled brand I'm too poor or too old to know about, lol.
Exactly. Some hyper masculine branding to market for that certain group of people who also buy the F-150 Raptor. 😄
Man I'm still too asleep because for just a second on reading this I thought of the [F-22 Raptor](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/F-22_Raptor_edit1_%28cropped%29.jpg/1600px-F-22_Raptor_edit1_%28cropped%29.jpg)
A lot of little kids in my neighborhood (who go nuts when they see my dog running around with the T-Rex sled) often ask what the T-Rex's name is. I should pick a name I guess but I haven't really thought of anything worthy yet...
Just call him Dave. That T-Rex looks fun as heck
Dave is the perfect name
As you can guess by my username, I think this is a fine submission.
As a Dave, I approve
***BLOODFEAST THE EXTREME-INATOR***
Terrible Terry the tractable T-Rex.
Iditarod
Idita-rex
Dogs are so single-minded lol. I have a border collie (a sentence which needs no further clarification)
At least border collies can multi-task. I'm blessed with a boxer. He has one brain cell. It has ADHD and it's hyper focus is "BALL!"
Wait border collies are supposed to be smart? My folks have one and I think he shares the one brain cell that all black cats share.
Nah, it’s orange cats that only have one brain cell to share. Black cats have plenty, they’re just usually set to “asshole” and not “intelligence”.
Oh no you must not have had good experiences with black cats. They are usually the sweetest of all cats. Orange cats are definitely the dum-dums though, followed by the fluffy brown and gray tabbies.
Can confirm: have a coolie/Aussie/pyr rescue. The SOB is too smart he knows how to stealthily traverse the house with blankets and pillows to ruin. Jokes aside, when he was hyper-active, when he was younger, we could get him to fetch specific toys and put them away in his basket, as well as put certain clothes away in their proper drawers. Now he has embraced his inner Great Pyr and is a lump on a log.
I too have a single brain-celled dog who has one favorite toy and it goes everywhere with her and she panics when she cannot locate it.
I expected an actual sled from some brand named "T-Rex" ... This is better.
My husky loved to pull me on my scooter. I’d even put a hot dog on a stick to get her running lol. The sled dogs always look so excited and happy to get running-they love it!
Yeah my understanding is they truly love there jobs the only problem is realy the liveing conditions there in when not preforming them
From my experience having a husky, using them for sleds is like using a sail for ships. They're already gonna be running just like the wind is already gonna be blowing. We're just giving them a direction and something to move.
Great Floof! Tax paid and appreciated
The friend or the husky?
Yes lmao well played
Your friend and their husky traveling at Mach one:
2.6
Both
People tend to get dogs that match their personalities. Not always. But enough of the time that it’s easily noticeable.
Right? Like, have you even met a Husky?
Well although many might have husky in them, I’ve met a few people in my area that run Iditarods, and thier dogs. There were very few that even resembled Huskys. Maybe it was just the ones I met though. They were the happiest when realizing they were going to run a sled either way. They definitely weren’t being forced to.
Often they are now mixes of hounds with various husky/arctic breeds. Apparently they endure better and have greater speed. There aren’t many racers that have a 100% pure husky/arctic breed kennel anymore. I know that a few mushers I talked to when I lived in Fairbanks, AK would rave about the mix my girl is (Malamute/labrador mix) and how good a mix they are for racing.
I get the impression that many of these PETA folks have never spent time around *any* animals in real life. If they care about animals, it's in an entirely abstract fashion that's only marginally connected to reality.
Isn't PETA's position that pet ownership is unethical.
Which is a fucking dumb ass take. Most domesticated animals need human companionship, its bred into them for thousands of years. Its unethical to deny them that companionship, esp dogs.
Plus you can't tell me a happy, long-lived pet isn't better off than the same animal living a short, miserable life in the wild (although I will agree that it is unethical to inappropriately keep caged animals in unnatural conditions).
Husky: "Why are you only giving me a car to pull, give trains"
Yup. A friend of ours rescues/fosters huskies and it seems as if they’re not being pushed to their physical limits they’re some bored puppers.
People who think giving certain dog breeds jobs is cruel have never been around these dogs. Huskies want to run, Malignois want any task, border collies want to herd and bloodhounds want to track. And want= desperately need to or will be neurotic/depressed
I only really have experience with border collies but yes. A border wants two things: to herd something and to work in tandem with his human. I've once tried to get a specific horse from a herd on a very large field. After watching me for 10 minutes, a border collie that was just chilling nearby got up, went to work and delivered the correct horse directly to me. Just looking at me like "what? Like it's hard?"
Can confirm. My friend's malinios holds a part time job bagging groceries at the corner minimart, started a mildly successful neighborhood tree trimming business as a hobby a few summers ago, and helps out with basic 1040s at the community center during tax season. He was trying to pick up lace crochet, but was struggling bc, yknow, thumbs.
You actually had me with bagging groceries there for a second.
My Dalmatian (which are also endurance dogs — they were bred to run next to horses all day) has a tendon industry and is currently on an exercise restriction. So she can only have leashed walks (though I can only give her about 3-4 hours a day. She got 3-4 hours a day before, but more than half of it was off-leash and sprinting.) Even with 300mg of gabapentin twice a day to help keep her calm (she’s only 40 lbs) we are both going through absolute hell. She’s losing her mind. She’s dug up half the yard (which is cardio that can’t hurt her tendons!) She’s destroyed several books. She’s harassing my cats. She’s stopped listening to commands. All while taking a *sedative-level* dose of gabapentin. I very often get “I’ve never met such a nice Dalmatian before!” and my answer always was “you’ve never met one that gets enough exercise before.” But I didn’t really realize just how true that was. Send help.
Yeah I pup sat for a guy with a German Shepard. Took her for a super long hike where she wanted to play fetch ***the entire hike*** and when I got back, I was laying on the sofa, DEAD TIRED and she was barking at me all evening wanting me to throw her the ball. I tried to get her up on the sofa to lay down and she NIPPED at me. Also during her constant fetch mania I accidentally stepped on one of many of her fetch sticks that she found (I had since given up) and right when I stepped on it, she grabbed it in her mouth, snapping the stick and giving me a decent cut up my leg. Needless to say, that was the last time I pup sat for him. Not the dogs fault, she just had so much energy and probably never got out. She was nuts though.
My friend's border collie loves to herd his pet turtles. Nobody taught her how to do it, she just does it on her own.
I've seen border collies herding many things, I can just imagine the weirdness of their hyper enthusiasm waiting for the turtles to get into a pen.
She hyperfocuses each of them in turn and pushes them closer to their pen if they stray too far. It’s incredibly cute! Lil’ tortol herder
Also good luck getting a husky inside when it’s cold and snowy out there. Tantrum city lol
I have never had a dog so consicely and grumpily chew me out and point out all my shortcommings like a husky being dragged back inside. I don't know exactly what he's saying but I know it is some biting commentary.
"Don't you wish you could understand what they're saying?" "....no, it's probably for the best."
I have a young cat, she runs back and forth through the house for an hour sometime around 22:00
Only that late?! You're lucky mate! My cats have all liked to do this at 1 or 2am. What fun is when they get really wild and start fucking shit up in the kitchen.
My cat in between 5-530am finds one of her stuffed toys and climbs on my bed and pushes it down between the side of the bed and the wall and then tries to pull back up and if she can’t she’ll go under the bed and claw at it from the bottom and pull on the mattress with her claws 5-530am every single morning… I can’t stop her
Nah, my cat sleeps during the night. She's gotta save all that energy so she can slap strongly in the morning as soon as my alarm sounds
Mine too. He loves sleeping all night with me, then little stabbies until I get up in the morning
The poem "Fog" by Carl Sandburg reads: The fog comes on little cat feet. # It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. # My mom says that if the fog really came in on little cat feet, no one would ever get any sleep on foggy nights.
I think most cat owners are in agreement that Carl Sandburg had either never known a cat or he was in strong denial.
My neighbors have one, and they give it “Doggie Prozac” because they…shouldn’t own a Husky. And they aren’t willing to run 5-10 miles a day with him.
I took my old, arthritic husky to a hardware store yesterday after she had already had a few hours playing with the in-laws dog and she still tried to pull even though she could hardly get traction on the smooth floors. Dogs love to do what they're bred for.
A number of dogs per year are raced to death. When I lived in the Yukon there would be rescue dogs from racing, and they certainly needed to run 2 hours every second day, but not 20 hours a day up and down mountains for a week. I was also on relatedanimal committees. Not advocating anything, this is just first hand info.
Yeah forcing dogs to pull a sled until they die is not the same as training them to be sled dogs in general. It’s the difference between telling a football player to play their scheduled games, and forcing them to play endless games until they die of exhaustion/injuries. One is a game, the other is torture/murder. The book The Call of the Wild illustrates this very well, as the main character (a sled dog) bounces between cruel owners and kind ones.
This! Whoever made this has never met a happy husky. They love and live for those races.
We are used as equipment. It's called a job.
Human “resources”
Human "capital"
We also do sports...
And enjoy them... Some of us... I personally hated running... But some people do it for funsies.
And this image... looks like funsies!
If we had more clothes anyways. Unlike the dogs, we don't have a bunch of fur
Speak for yourself
The dress code in this particular job is a little constricting, though.
Yeah but it’s okay for humans to exploit other humans, just not the non-human animals. Everybody knows that /s
I don't know if you've ever owned a husky.. but they definitely do not mind getting to run around
I had to look after a husky for a day... it just got foisted onto me. Forget "they don't mind" they will actively go insane if they don't get to run around for a few hours every day. I physically could not keep up with it so I settled on strapping a lawn chair to an old toboggan and letting it pull me around in the snow for an hour and a half. I got the grocery shopping done at least with that and the entire neighbourhood got a good laugh. This husky wasn't even a sled dog, it was just a home pet but it loved pulling the sled around and got sad when I took it off and it's owners came to pick it up. As for why I refer to the husky as it, my younger brother foisted it onto me for the last day and I have no idea of the gender of the dog.
My girlfriend has a husky that she goes to the dog run with and yells "go go go!!" And cheers and claps as he runs up and down the dog run and screams. He is happy to do this infinitely
I'll bet, those dogs can RUN. It's insane how much energy they have. So far the only things I've seen that can keep up with a husky are small children.
It's not just burst energy either, but endurance. Huskies can run +100 miles in a single day. They're up there just below humans in regard to overall endurance.
Videos and pics or it most likely happened but I want to see all of the vids and pics.
Last year I found an escaped husky running around. Long story short the dog was chipped and I was able to find the owner, who lived around the corner. Not the first time the dog got out, the owner told me. Huskies are notorious for escaping because they want to run around and work.
If you can convince a dog bred for snow racing to not go snow racing, you can win the argument lol. Good luck.
Seriously. My Samoyed needs her "mush time". It's she's not actively in the snow or pulling our mush training bike, she throws a tantrum. But then again when has PETA ever made a comparison that wasn't ridiculous, uninformed, or weirdly sexual. Or, like here, all three.
shocked it wasn't bloody, naked women who looked like blow up dolls pulling that sled 😒
"Vegetarian" dog/cat videos come to mind where the owner puts a meat dish and a vegan dish in front of the animal and they're like "watch, my pet will eat the vegan dish" then the animal eats the meat dish... every time.
Oof, reminds me of a time met a Bernese Mountain dog at the park and I assumed she was still a puppy because she was so small. For those that don’t know, the typical weight of a full grown female Bernese Mountain dog is 70-95 lbs, this dog was easily ~50, and she looked to be the same size as my 45 lb dog. Her owner and I started talking and I asked how old the pup was and she said “oh, she turns 5 in a few weeks”. I exclaimed how surprised I was to hear that because she was so small - I believe my words were close to “oh my! She’s a small one huh?” - and the woman got visible irritated and said “no, she’s a normal size! She just doesn’t have all those toxins from meat in her body making her unnecessarily large! And before you go off on your high horse, her vet says it’s perfectly healthy to have her on a vegan diet!” She then grabbed her dog and marched off. Out of curiosity I asked a vet friend of mine who said that was very underweight for that type of dog, and could really hurt her in the long-run as she grows older. Poor pup.
I love those videos because it’s so funny. Half of them don’t even get a chance to finish their sentence before the pet is horfing down the meat.
Shows they are also not capabel to properly train their pet. It is not hard to train pets discipline, even with food. All my dogs wait till I give them the command for eating (no worries they get lavischly rewarded for it!)
This. You could drop a full steak on the ground in my house and my dogs won't move a muscle until they are told it's ok to eat it. Helps keep them from scavenging at my kids feet or taking food from her hand.
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Move him farther away from the bowl to wait, and you may need to actually pick the bowl up. My jack had the same issue and the minute he moved without me saying so I picked the bowl up and we repeated. Record was 25 times of setting the bowl down before he actually stayed but most nights he picked it up quick. Also worth noting that when it wasn't meal time I would use training treats for the same thing essentially. Put it on the ground and work on stay and feed command.
Wish I could remember where to find it, but I remember watching a video of a vet proving just how stupid people who do this are. He had a dog which legitimately couldn't eat meat due to a gut problem. Whenever the dog ate meat it could get dangerously ill, would definitely cause pain and discomfort. So the vet put it's usual food, which it happily eats, next a bowl of meat or wet food. Dumb fucker went straight for the meat. Obviously, the dog had vomiting induced before it caused problems and I think they were already going to have to induce vomiting for some reason, so the vet was just taking advantage of the opportunity to make the point, it wasn't just done for the sake of the video.
A kid I was friends with in elementary school had 4 huskies that were walked about 20km a day. They ate his entire couch one day. Literally.
EVEN THE WOOD AND NAILS?? (I joke. But that's impressive.)
I mean they vomited most of it back out but yeah, quite a sight to behold lol
Working dogs LOVE to work. And I guess Furries LOVE dominating submissive twinks.
They really do. I don't know about working dogs though.
This artwork is made by someone's kink/fetish a furry who's into bdsm
Nah, a furry artist probably would have made it look nicer.
As a former huskey owner I can conform they literally want nothing more then running for several hours straight Edit i didn't expect this to blow up so much thanks everyone ps stop asking me all these questions I'm not a sled dog trainer and don't have all the awnsers you will probably get better awnsers doing you're own research and I need to sleep
I had a huskey growing up, and one of my chores when I got home from school was strapping on some roller blades and letting her pull me around the neighborhood. The first 15 minutes were always a blast. The second 15 minutes I tolerated. The 3rd 15 minutes I did because I loved her. One of my greatest regrets is never seeing how long she would have gone if I hadn't been the one to cut it off after the 3rd 15 minutes.
Ours would literally just decide to bolt out the door literally before we could close it then running 3 blocks away then coming back at a certain point we stopped trying to catch her because she would see it as race wich would cause her to run for longer she always came back though eventually I loved that dog but also low-income Americans with 0 yard space shouldn't have huskeys She would either run away or dedicate her energy to tearing apart the entire apartment instead
We had a husky/cattle dog mix. We had our oldest hop on his bike and run him. The first 3/4 mile was full speed pulling the bike. The last 1/4 was a steady run next to it. He got out one night and bolted, my kids freaked out. Took off after him. I went outside, sat on the porch, and had a beer. The dog was home 20 mins before the kids. He knew where his food came from. When he was out running, you could see his smile.
But, the real question is: do they want to BDSM me?
Yes, but only you specifically. Nobody else on this earth. All huskies- and every husky which has ever, or will have ever, husked- want to BDSM *you*.
Now I feel left out. What's so special about that guy?
God I hope that isn't a real question.
The issue with Iditarod is the $600k financial incentive to breed and train the best of the best. Since dogs don't have protection or communication it has led to a lot of animal cruelty. It's ridiculous that PETA can taint a whole conversation in ridiculousness when they could just say: here's some evidence of avoidable cruelty against animals by people who are just trying to enrich themselves, why are we allowing this. Examples include inhumane killings, and not giving proper vet care and continuing to race/train injured dogs, cages too small with too many dogs in them, etc.
What most people don't realize is that sporting dogs live for and love doing their "sport".
It’s the same with racehorses. Many times you will see a jockey accidentally drop their whip and the horses are still pushing themselves to compete as hard as possible. They love the race.
There's a notorious example of a racehorse in Melbourne that was training to become a police horse after his years were over. It was a disaster. Pulling up at lights and watching everything take off, he figured they wanted to race and would bolt. And God help you if he heard a tram bell chiming.
That's both unfortunate and hilarious. I thought racehorses were skittish and mean and that's why they are escorted by calm horses to the gate? Couldn't imagine trying to get one to mellow out enough to be a police horse.
He was a gelding, and apparently had a lovely temperment, from everything I read the problem was simply that he thought the a day ending in y meant everything else in the city (and police horses in Melbourne only operate in the city) wanted to race him. Its hardly surprising. Even putting aside the training they put racehorses through, we've been selectively breeding them for racing now for literal *centuries.*
Quarter horse owner here. Can confirm that bitch likes to RUN. Full speed galloped around her massive pasture for no particular reason
The reason is clear: it’s time for running.
True but sometimes she thinks it is Time For Running™️ when I am on her back and those times are not so fun😂
If you know anything about sled dog racing you know that: 1. The dogs are literally bred and trained for this. If you’re at a kennel for sled dogs- watch how they react upon seeing the sled. They lose their little doggy minds! 2. On the Iditarod trail the dogs are treated better than the people. Dogs are examined by vets at every checkpoint and if found wanting they are air lifted back to the closest city. 3. Dogs descend into depression when forced to “retire” Edit to add: never been a musher myself but talked to some of them and when they stop it’s often 50 below zero and pitch black and the musher’s first responsibility is to lay straw for the dogs, take care of the dogs’ feet, heat up the dog food and feed it to them (the dogs have to eat _extremely_ fast when it’s that cold because otherwise their food turns to a block of ice in seconds), _massage the dogs_ (yes that happens- if the dogs are cramping or limping then you need to get the knots out) and then, with any short time remaining in a 2 hour stop, the musher can close their eyes for 15 minutes before getting the team back up, putting their gear back, and continuing on a race that can last for 8 days.
About #3: drug dogs have this issue too. When weed became legal in CO all the dogs had to be retired and replaced with dogs that don't hit on pot. (Arguments about effectiveness aside here). One guy took to hiding a baggie of weed somewhere in the house for his retired drug dog. That doggo was always visibly happy to be on the job for his daily search and reward for finding the baggie. My heeler would herd my livestock all day long if I let her... They love these tasks because just like humans they enjoy feeling useful and having accomplishments.
I am the staff to retired racing greyhounds. My current two are race track flunkies who never really raced, but they still go insane when there are rabbits and squirrels to chase. My OG girl raced a nearly full career and was a decent racer. She would barely walk more than a mile at a time, but the couple times we did some lure coursing, she absolutely broke ear drums SCREAMING to get at the BUNNNIIEEEEEES!!!!!! Like I had to practically hog tie her and blind fold her to keep her contained when waiting for her turn and to get her off the field after her run. She LOVED chasing things and would run herself to the point of collapse if I let her. And we haven’t tried any sort of lure chase with our current pair, but I suspect they’d be absolutely thrilled to do what they do. So anyone who says breeds of dog that are purpose bred (racers, hunting dogs, herders, etc) are unhappy doing their thing, it’s a hell of a lot harder to KEEP them from doing their job than getting them motivated
Border Collies are known difficult dogs because they’re smart and want ALL the jobs. I’ve had Weimaraners and Poodles too - lots of dogs want jobs, even when you don’t feel like they need one. It’s about solving boredom.
My lab mix goes crazy when she hears the trash bag being removed from the trash barrel. She knows it's her job to take the trash out with me. Such a pain in the ass chore for me is the best thing in the world for her. She loves for those little tasks. Forget something in the car? She's there to help you get it.
How would you possibly move the smelly almost food outside and find macguffins in the car without my particular expertise?
Second this. I have a corgi and a scottie. The corgi herds us all, all day. She has a schedule, and by God all the animals in this house (including humans) will follow the boss lady’s schedule. She delights in running a tight ship. My Scottie has two modes. Chilling with his peeps and “How am I going to kill that.” Lizards, Rats, Squirrels, etc have all been happily hunted in my backyard. Most have escaped, but the few that didn’t made a Scottie’s day. The pride he has in the hunt, you couldn’t train.
I am the pawsonal assistant to a husky/corgi mix. If I could channel his energy, we could power the globe.
I must ask, does he follow the pattern of looking like a corgi disguised in a husky suit?
[yep.](https://imgur.com/gallery/0UT7lCx)
Gosh. Your pup is adorable! I grew up with Corgis, and they're adorable little fuzz butts. A bit hectic at times though.
My moms malinois absolutely loses his mind if you bring out the bite sleeve for training. He basically has to be shoved back into the car to go home.
Alaskan and former musher (it's expensive as hell to buy high protein/fat content dogfood for 30+ active athletes) here: idk who told you it's 50 below zero that often but it really isn't that often. Definitely not in the first part of the race. For example, it's been 40 degrees above more days than it hasn't this month, down here at the starting line. Your other points are mostly true. It's well intentioned. There are a number of mandatory "layovers" where the teams have to rest for a certain amount of time... for example there is a 24 hour layover, some smaller 8 hour ones, etc. Part of a teams strategy is deciding what checkpoints to take them at. Those are only the mandatory ones. Many teams choose to take longer ones or take rests more often. I only bring this up because the whole "2 hour break" is disingenuous... teams are much better rested than that. They have to be, because this is a marathon, not a sprint. My kennel used an equivalent time of running to resting, as we were more of a hobbyist team, so 4 hours on and 4 hours off, with some longer rests if they seemed sore.
You sir are cool af.
This was incredibly interesting and informative
This guy mushes
The dogs do seem to enjoy this. It would be like an anthropomorphized dog walked up to me and said, "I'm going to need you to play video games for me for 10 hours a day. If you do this I'm going to give you a treat of hamburgers and beer." I'd be depressed when I retire from that life too...
Sounds like a live streamer job and my dream job if … i have better gaming skill or social skill 🫡
Also if youve ever seen a former sled dog after being rehomed they NEED to work… they are miserable if they can’t exercise HARD everyday. In Alaska where sled dogs are still a legitimate means of transportation, sled dogs are treated better than most people and even when the owners don’t need to get somewhere they have to take their dogs out for at least an hour run just to burn off their pent up energy because they need to run and pull. peta completely destroys their own credibility when they start personifying animals with human traits and tolerances for extreme conditions.
Can confirm. Older dogs often become depressed as a result of inactivity. Peta is one of those organisations that started with bigger issues to address. Whilst it still has issues to address, once they've addressed any one specific project, all you're left with is a bunch of people who need to justify the existence of their jobs/ the scale of operation. It happens in almost all instances of organisations that are set up to solve specific issues. Usually, if this doesn't happen, it's because the problem remains ongoing or wasn't really solvable to begin with. ^ This is hugely reductionist. I realise it's not some kind of blanket fact. I know there are many, many other factors to consider. Just the general jist of how these institutions often end up saying stupid shit.
My father did a race in Labrador. Before he hit the check point that night he got caught in a storm and the dogs refused to go further. He had to stay where he was and almost died. Next morning he was only a few hundred feet from shelter. Years later I was on a business trip in Sweden and met some Mayors from Newfoundland and Labrador. I told the story to one of the Labrador Mayors. Turns out he organized the race and knew my father.
What I do in my bedroom is none of PETA’s business!
I feel like I saw this very scene that one time a furry convention came to town when I was still living in North Carolina.
Honestly denying a working breed of dog the opportunity to work is usually more torturous(not sure that's even a word) than the work ever could be. I have a friend who raises hunting dogs and those dogs get way better care than some people I've known. They loose their shit and get depressed when they don't get to hunt or train for hunting. Some of them that don't quite make the cut have to go to high energy owners that will exercise them and give them a regular job to do or they suffer from depression or behavioral issues. Have you ever owned a husky or known someone that had one? Did said husky destroy the house or have behavioral issues? That's probably because huskies need a ton of exercise and attention. In my mind someone that has a working dog like a husky and doesn't work the dog properly, then gets upset when it acts up, is more of an animal abuser than a sled dog competitor. Be mad at those people, not the ones putting a dog solely bred for a job to the task of doing its job! Dogs aren't like most people, they often enjoy working and performing tasks.
"There's are kink for that" - Some Guy
this better not awaken anything in me...
Pretty sure there is.
Have had multiple Huskies/Malamutes. They love to work, and hate staying still.
I have an Alaskan husky. He's turning 9 this year, so he isn't as active as he was, but he still gets pissed if we don't do our walks. He likes at least 60 minutes a day total. When he was younger, it was an hour minimum at the dog park plus walks.
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Most huskies love the snow, not to mention they are practically built for snow.
not even practically, they are literally built for snow
Sure your indoor husky that’s never seen snow might not enjoy the entire race without training, but those sled dogs are having the time of their lives out there. They love it. How your at home dog reacts to a new bone or a cheeseburger, that’s how those sled dogs react to the sled.
As someone who has spent time around my cousin’s Alaskan malamutes, yes they do. *Yes they fucking do.* I’ve never seen a dog get more excited in my fucking life than when my friend would bring out the sled and the equipment, those dogs absolutely *lost their minds* every time they realized they were going to get to pull the sled. I’m pretty sure you could have given them each a freshly cooked steak and they’d abandon it to pull that sled in a heartbeat. Now granted, the Iditarod is not a casual dog-sledding trip and it’s probably pretty harsh on the digs, especially if you’re not being careful to watch their health closely, but the act of training sled dogs to, well, pull sleds, is not cruel in the slightest. It’s less comparable to slavery and more comparable to an athlete getting hyped before a game.
You know, for an organization that claims to advocate for the ethical treatment of animals, it always amazes me how shockingly ignorant PETA is about the animals they decide to represent.
I swear there are people out there that would pay good money to be part of this kink
Something about this image makes me feel like it belongs on some messed up furry porn
Haha... I've been in places where you pay good money for this kind of thing.
I used to live in the Yukon, and can confirm, the dogs want to pull and run as fast as they can for hours. I had a dog that was from a sled dog breeder - many teams run mixed breed dogs for the different attributes, and a popular mix is Husky Lab Shepard - about 85 pounds, curly tail, floofy like a wolf. If you put a leash on his collar, it was borderline animal abuse because he'd pull so hard he'd start to choke and cough. A harness was the only humane way to walk that dog and I could never walk him or brush him enough. He'd run until his paws were bloody and then yell at you like a whiny spoiled brat when it was over.