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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...
Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).
happy first day of pride everyone
Pet hair is a very important dietary requirement. Which is why my critters try soo hard to get it into every single thing I eat and drink
"Decolonize Everything"
“When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish caught… then you will realize money cannot be eaten.”
Anti-colonial graffiti seen in Pensacola, Florida
"Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money."
-Alanis Obomsawin, Abenaki, 1972
honestly I'm very grateful that I got involved in queer community organizing basically as soon as I turned 18, because that's how I was exposed to other queer people saying things like "I just wouldn't trust a bisexual" and "I don't believe in that privilege stuff" and "I don't like when people act like you have to be a feminist if you're gay," all of which taught me at a very young age the crucial truth that queer people can be very stupid and very wrong
I think there's a pervasive tendency among very young baby queers to get kind of dazzled by being among other gay people for the first time and that combined with the heady drug of the first taste of independence can really make you start thinking of The Queer Community(TM) like it's one big enlightened rainbow utopia but unfortunately we have dipshits and malevolent freaks like every other demographic. Peter Thiel is in here.
my condolences to the people learning that Peter Thiel is gay from this post
Reblog if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgender or a supporter.
This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.
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How many chihuahuas would it take to run the Iditarod do we think
Like 100?
@darkwood-sleddog would you like to humour us
I have been summoned?
(I am chucky in this scenario above)
Chihuahuas are tiny but mighty and I would think their tenacious attitudes would be a net positive. I will address how MANY chihuahuas i think you would need to = the pulling strength of an Iditarod team below but I want to address some other factors a hypothetical chihuahua musher would face with this...unique team makeup:
1.) Chihuahuas need small frequent meals most of the time due to their size while arctic breeds tend to use the same amount of food more efficiently. Obviously we are going to need MORE Chihuahuas than a Alaskan Husky Iditarod team (16 dogs at max capacity), but they will also probably need to eat more food per pound than the huskies not only because of the husky ability to need less food per pound, but also because Chihuahuas are a breed that was developed for warm weather they have much shorter hair and lack the double coats of even Alaskan Huskies so they will also spend more nutrients keeping warm. Iditarod sled dogs consume an average of 12,000 calories per day and the race takes about 10 days more or less to complete at a competitive pace.
2.) Chihuahuas are actually pretty good at pulling stuff and several compete in weight pull, so pulling is a good outlet in a non hypothetical scenario with the right precautions. SOME. VIDEOS .
Adorable.
3.) A dog's ethical "working load" for longer distances can be determined by a % of its body weight and scaled for conditioning and breed size. A larger dog is typically going to be able to pull more weight per pound, but little dogs shouldn't be counted out. For small dogs up to 25 pounds it is typically said that 10-20% of the dog's body weight can be safely pulled (for large dogs it's usually more). In a weight pull scenario like above, which is very short distance, dogs can pull up to 3x their body weight (sometimes more but not often).
Okay let's do math (which i'm bad at, but calculators exist so thank god):
The Chihuahua standard says that dogs must NOT exceed 6 pounds/2.7kg and Alaskan Huskies are often not more than 60 pounds/27.2kg and less than 35 pounds/15.8kg (for reference my smallest Alaskan Malamute is 75 pounds/34kg and my largest is 110 pounds/50kg....)
Loaded with gear an Iditarod sled weighs around 200 pounds/90.7kg.
Most Iditarod dogs are not at the maximum size/weight range, mostly closer to 45 pounds/20kg on average. For the purposes of this exercise I will use 5 pounds/2.2kg for the Chihuahua. I will assume that these Chihuahua's are at their maximum strength and conditioning much like sled dogs and use the 20% metric for the amount of weight they could pull. Because our average Chihuahua is 5 pounds in this scenario it makes the math easy. 20% of 5 is uh.....1.
So to conclude it is likely that you would need a team of 200+ Chihuahuas to pull an Iditarod sled (and omg the amount of food...). That paints QUITE the visual.
Here is Jeff Deeter from Black Spruce Dog Sledding, an Iditarod kennel, running a 29 dog team for reference of what a large amount of dogs in harness might...be like?
anyways whose gonna make a visual of the hypothetical chihuahua team bc i would like to see it
(please note that per Iditarod race rules non-northern breeds are not actually allowed to race in the Iditarod and this scenario is hypothetical).
Me and my 200+chihuahuas getting turned away at the Iditarod starting line even though we practiced so much and they are all perfectly conditioned and can each pull exactly one (1) pound
@darkwood-sleddog your weight limits for weight pull might be a bit off, since the record for swissies is somewhere around 5000lbs and that is, uh, way more than 3x their body weight 😅
But yes that is a rather short distance, so I'm not sure how that would adjust to a long haul race like this.
I do regularly see claims of 200-300lbs being pulled by chihuahuas at these competitions, and technically the top weight pull titles are approximately 20x the dog's weight, so it's definitely more than triple.
Fae pulls around 3lbs to her 5lbs as a training pull whenever we have the time, so I can see that number going up exponentially as the dog gets stronger.
I did say the math in this was pretty hypothetical lol!
The 3x the body weight was specifically a number I saw for the average dog 25 pounds and under and did not include the higher % of weight seen with freight breeds bred to pull heavy weight or dogs that are actively conditioned for weight pull. I feel these two types are exceptions to the data and rule set on what’s okay for average dogs of certain weights. Freight breeds are bred and shaped to do this and any dog conditioned in pulling heavy weight regularly is going to be able to pull a higher % of weight, but since this was a funny post not really about weight pull I chose not to go into depth there. I do think dogs that are pulling 20x + their body weights are pretty exceptional athletes at the top of their sport both in body and mental fortitude. You could put the best Iditarod sled dog in harness at a weight pull competition without additional conditioning and they would pull, but it would be nowhere near the numbers or ability of a dog the same type and size doing weight pull competitions or trainings on the regular. They’re different sports in so many ways.
While I think weight pull is a great conditioning tool for sled dogs, weight pull is different than purposeful freight over a distance and many freight mushing folks will utilize weight pull but with less weight and more distance than weight pull specific competitions for training. I don’t think the extreme top of the sport weight pull data would transfer into long distance mushing in the hypothetical scenario as those extreme pulls are done for such a short distance. Friction of the sled, the weight of supplies and the musher, as well as the grip and type of snow across distance are best spread out amongst a large number of dogs. If a team continually can keep the sled in motion this difficulty lessens. This motion requires speed, usually a fast trot (8-9 mph on average) and in an average of six hour long increments.
Three trained recreational freight dogs like mine could very much pull an Iditarod sled on their own but even then they would have to go slow, below their average trotting speed (which is less than Alaskans at the top of their game, closer to 6 mph) and likely find it demoralizingly heavy for any amount of distance. It would not be an ethical thing to ask them to do imo. Iditarod will forcibly scratch mushers who have less than 5 dogs in harness for this type of reason.
The Alaskan Malamute Club of Sweden has stricter working rules than many other clubs (which I sometimes replicate with my own team even though it’s not required bc I love a challenge *insert clown outfit here*) and they run working tests for many sled breeds. A certain poundage of freight in sleds is required in addition to the weight of the sled/musher for competition when those working tests are being done by Malamute, Greenland Dogs, and Samoyed. They do not require additional weight for Siberian Huskies because their purpose is considered racing. Here is their poundage freight chart (2011, might be updated since this point but it was similar last time I saw it at a race/working test), I think it’s a pretty good example of what can be considered a freight load per average sized dog of each freight breed:
They say this about their math:
Seeing how this is not even a full body weight of one dog of a freighting breed (with perhaps exceptions for bitches at the smallest possible end of the spectrum) I’d still say we’re looking at a 200+ chihuahua scenario for Iditarod lol (which would not be allowed because it exceeds the 16 dog maximum but I still think it’s a very funny image!)
I am not an expert, but I am Norwegian and grew up skijoring (and have the knees to prove it - more on the skijoring experience below), and the only sport I am interested in is (mostly long distance) dog sledding lol.
I would say that the chihuahua long distance dog sledding math sounds very solid. Sprint dog sledding sports (fast dogs in smaller teams, running short distances) cannot be compared to long distance dog sledding athletically. You need very different characteristics from these dogs. So similarly, even though this post was the one that introduced me to that particular dog sport, I don't think explosive max sled pulling math applies to the (hypothetical) long distance chihuahua case.
Also, anecdotally, I have borrowed some (actively competing), and own a couple of long distance retired dogs. When I use them for skijoring, I would say they do seem to conserve energy and not pull all that hard. (As opposed to short distance pointer type dogs I have skied with.) I would say 20-50% of their body weight is something these types of dogs would just naturally offer, ofc depending massively on the individual dog (and day). The point is, they conserve energy, and that is an important characteristic that they would need to stay in the long distance game.
Also I love all parts of this discussion.
I am so bad at posting here (or truly anywhere), but I have an important question. Does anyone know if the dog world has an equivalent of orange cats? Because this orange dog with blue eyes will probably be the 💀 of us, but we still love her too much to give her up it seems (and we've only known her for two weeks I should add). My poor other dog as well. 💀💔 Please help us all.
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To clarify - our 4 year old wise old soul:
8 year old complete weirdo:
Update on the situation:
Me and my dog love this odd little goofball. She probably has to stay, we can't stop loving her now.
I will just continue this story until it is the longest story no one has ever read on Tumblr, haha.
Anyway, let me record goofy stuff this dog does. Yesterday she jumped on the sofa right where the other dog lay peacefully and then sat down on the other dog. I guess this is a thing that I would consider normal asshole dog behaviour, but the weird thing is that somehow I am very sure she didn't sit om the other dog on purpose. She is just that spatially unaware, and that was the part of the sofa she saw at the time.
I am so bad at posting here (or truly anywhere), but I have an important question. Does anyone know if the dog world has an equivalent of orange cats? Because this orange dog with blue eyes will probably be the 💀 of us, but we still love her too much to give her up it seems (and we've only known her for two weeks I should add). My poor other dog as well. 💀💔 Please help us all.
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To clarify - our 4 year old wise old soul:
8 year old complete weirdo:
Update on the situation:
Me and my dog love this odd little goofball. She probably has to stay, we can't stop loving her now.
How Colonization Changed Gender Forever
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While fewer Alaska Natives participate in the race as costs increase and foodways collapse, this year’s rookies want to ensure mushing remai
...“It’s really special and powerful. I don’t think I would do it otherwise if I didn’t have it as part of my culture,” Potts-Joseph said. “It feels sacred.”
Iditarod Race Director Mark Nordman said he would like to see the Iditarod support villagers from rural Alaska participating in the race, characterizing this sponsorship as “crucial.”
“It’s where we all started,” he said. “The race needs to remember where we came from.” ...
"I can put books in this." -- me, justifying buying this little antique shelf. (It was only $10.)
Best idea!
I am so bad at posting here (or truly anywhere), but I have an important question. Does anyone know if the dog world has an equivalent of orange cats? Because this orange dog with blue eyes will probably be the 💀 of us, but we still love her too much to give her up it seems (and we've only known her for two weeks I should add). My poor other dog as well. 💀💔 Please help us all.
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To clarify - our 4 year old wise old soul:
8 year old complete weirdo:
I am so bad at posting here (or truly anywhere), but I have an important question. Does anyone know if the dog world has an equivalent of orange cats? Because this orange dog with blue eyes will probably be the 💀 of us, but we still love her too much to give her up it seems (and we've only known her for two weeks I should add). My poor other dog as well. 💀💔 Please help us all.
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