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Ball is life.
something I’ve noticed about Kep, which surprised me bc I always thought it was instinctual, is that he does not know how to dig. never has. he will paw at his bed or the floor when he’s getting ready to sleep, but only ever with one leg at a time. I have never seen him do the left-right-left-right alternating standard digging motion. it’s always left-left-left-left and sometimes he’ll switch to right-right-right-right but never does he alternate feet. it’s also only with bedding, never in the yard. Stellina has always liked to dig ever since she was a puppy (mostly in water but she also has a nice little scrape under my lilac bush she naps in) and Boone was a big digger who made several upsettingly large holes in my yard. I feel like Kep would love digging based on his general penchant for destruction, so maybe it’s a good thing he’s never figured it out.
i really really like this post
does your dog know how to dig?
ohhh yeah
yes but they are nonpracticing
no. my dog is innocent.
When someone derogatorily refers to a chihuahua as a “rat dog”
never thought i would get a chihuahua and suddenly i am papá to one of these magnificent creatures (i would blow up the sun for her)
Tylenol my beloved I would kill for you
For curiosity, what is your preference for leaving your dog when you go out of town?
Leave with friend or family (their house)
Leave with friend or family (housesitting)
Leave with professional (petsitting)
Daycare-style boarding facility
Kennel-style boarding facility
Vet boarding
I will never leave my dog in the care of others
I don't have a dog button
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With the click, the trainer says, "You've done enough good behavior for the moment; now it's my turn to do some good behavior" (e.g., playing with or feeding or releasing you). [...] Alex's definition of clicker training also conveys the two-way nature of the process and the deep and resonating joy that clicker trainers experience. [...] This reciprocal exchange of reinforcement between learner and teacher -- the animal behaving in a way that pleases the trainer, followed by the trainer behaving in a way that pleases the animal, over and over -- is the very definition of a cooperative partnership. The rewards flow in both directions, with each partner taking turns behaving in desirable ways.
-- Plenty in Life Is Free, Kathy Sdao
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He who herds the dandelion seeds, the noble steed of fae. His voice shattering the early hours of the day, he -- the shadow at your beck and call... provided that a price is paid.*
*- cheese slices are an acceptable form of currency. Just remember not to get yourself lured into a mushroom circle, hm?
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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
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1925 Balto and his sled driver Gunnar Kasson at the unveiling of Central Park's Balto statue. (Balto, Gunnar and their sled dog team brought life-saving diptheria medicine across Alaska during an outbreak.) From New York City Images: 1850-1980, FB.
People in the notes saying they didn't know we had pictures of Balto and Gunnar Kaasen - there are a few!
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