twigsandleavesplz t1_iu2gw25 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:39 AM

Over 150 dogs have died during the Iditarod and that doesn’t even include those who have died during the off-season. One dog’s heroism turned into a tradition of running dogs to their death in all weather extremes. 💔

BasedChadThundercock t1_iu5eenf wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:56 PM

The dogs are bred and LIVE for that kind of running, Clown.

Siberian Huskies love it as do Malamutes. It is in their nature to haul and run in teams. They are some of the oldest dog breeds on Earth with millenia of tradition in running. Virtue signal ignorantly to people who don't know better, or shut up and learn something in this TIL.

twigsandleavesplz t1_iu5hqn2 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 6:19 PM

Oh, so you’re a musher or work with a musher, so you know this firsthand? Or do you just live Anchorage/Willow, etc. yourself? 🤔 Having been to the Iditarod and being on these sled dog properties has proved the theory that they live this great life on the end of a chain when not running — wrong.

I don’t know, man. Mushers house sick, distressed dogs with no socialization, enrichment and bullshit shelter through frigid temps and weather.

Running to your death, choking on your own vomit, breaking a limb, or suffering from hypothermia in order to make big bucks for the human seems pretty gross to me.

BasedChadThundercock t1_iu5k2m1 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 6:34 PM

I'm a trucker from Kodiak and knew mushers, owned a husky myself. They were born and bred to run, it's so engrained into the fabric of their DNA as to be instinctual.

Running, pulling, and working brings these dogs great enjoyment in life.

twigsandleavesplz t1_iu5lev8 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 6:43 PM

Though I understand your position here, but do you really think that running 1,000 miles in all weather extremes/terrain is instinctual for them? 1,000 miles? Sub zero temps? Cliffs, rivers, ice, etc? Not to take lifesaving medicine to children, but to warn humans a large profit?

I understand this is a tradition of the Inuit people, but as time goes on, we evolve. Last year at the Iditarod, it was a bunch of white people hootin’ and hollerin’. It’s time to evolve past using animals like this.

BasedChadThundercock t1_iu5njbf wrote on October 28, 2022 at 6:58 PM

>Though I understand your position here, but do you really think that running 1,000 miles in all weather extremes/terrain is instinctual for them? 1,000 miles? Sub zero temps? Cliffs, rivers, ice, etc?

Millenia of breeding and influence on the genetic traits that make up their personalities, drives, and physical forms I say Yes.

>I understand this is a tradition of the Inuit people, but as time goes on, we evolve.

Lmao, so says You and every person who justified the boarding schools imposed upon the Native children.

>Last year at the Iditarod, it was a bunch of white people

So what if it was? You're unironically being incredibly racist.

>It’s time to evolve past using animals like this.

It would have been a more convincing argument if you stuck to the animal cruelty train of thought, but you mixed in woke race bullshit and made an even uglier statement.