For me it's anything involving cars or horses, also american football, and sumo, how about anything in general that intentionally harms the players health just by playing?
For me it's anything involving cars or horses, also american football, and sumo, how about anything in general that intentionally harms the players health just by playing?
Greyhound racing too
How about we stop making dogs drag people behind on sleds too.
Is Dog Sledding really that bad? Like the non-racing kind, not the long marathon style ones.
I would hope it'd be better with how it's tied into Inuit culture. Inherently it's not worse than any other working dog, but I also know nothing about northern dogs physiology. The main thing about dogs in general is how bad the inbreeding gets because of stupid breed standard, but I don't think people with working dogs care about doing that stuff as much.
Sled dogs really, really like pulling sleds. I just saw some getting ready to go once, and they were like... vibrating with excitement. Like a dog that gets really excited about going on a walk, but way more so.
I don't know anything else about the conditions of sled dogs.
Over hundreds of years we created creatures that are so purely happy to do the task we need them to do. Nothing in the world excites them more than the thing we need them to do. Ngl that’s pretty cool
To paraphrase Cesar Millan, every animal wants to have a purpose, and gets satisfaction out of engaging in it.
Yeah, kind of cool. Also pretty creepy to be honest. But the dogs are like that now, regardless.
Were not having a natives peoples use of animals struggle session here.
probably checks out. I don't know enough about Iditarod- style racing to know if that's possible to adapt / salvage. I've heard it's significantly less messed up and focused around consent from the dog's somehow(?) that also came from people who do it, however, so :fry:
I thought Huskies liked to do it, so long as the group isnt pulling anything too heavy
They do, sled dogs fucking love pulling sleds. Watch videos of them and right before a race they look like a dog that can’t contain its excitement to go on a walk
The same goes for being out on the snow in general, people who have arctic dogs in the snow can hardly get them to come inside