10/29/2021
A M A Z I N G Historical Sled Dog Breeds... This photograph was taken in Siberia of a Siberian Husky team resting beside Chukchi sled ... It captures history and is educational. Not all dogs have the same origins, same strengths, and none have thrived so closely linked to man and our mutual survival as the Northern Hemisphere Sled Dogs. There are amazing facts to value and to understand pertaining to preservation of these amazing dogs and their long history. They are not like every other dog in the world. They are different and they are special and irreplaceable.
The Indigenous people of the north (followed by explorers and Hudson Bay workers) travelled by dog sled in the most extreme cold winter conditions relying on dogs who could think independently, alert against predators, help hunt, and bring you home in a blinding blizzard.
The Indigenous peoples and sled dogs thrived in their 10,000 years + symbiotic relationship by hunting large territories and hundreds of miles distance in competition with other predators (such as the wolf and bear) who were doing the same.
Man and their sled dogs partnered together, thrived by the strengths of each other, eating a diet of high protein, high fat and covered with dense thick fur. After days of hunting, there were still days of travel to their families with sleds heavily laden...
Obviously there were no dog houses...
Q. How did these sled dogs keep warm when sleeping on the trail and life without dog houses?
A. They sleep curled up with their tail over their nose, which traps the heat against their bodies. When you see them covered with snow they aren't cold. It means that they are holding their heat because the snow has not melted. The thick undercoat of the Northern Breeds provides loft, like a fuzzy mohair sweater, and keeps the warmth next to the animal rather than allowing it to escape.
Fact: The Siberian Huskies and other Northern winter-acclimatized sled dogs have comfortably lived outdoors w/o houses where -60 is not uncommon. In Siberian they have temperatures nearing or in the -80s.
Fact: The lowest natural temperature directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983 by ground measurements.
Fact: The Iditarod only allows Northern Breeds in the race because other breeds can’t retain their heat well.
Fact: The Northern sled dog breeds have thrived for over 10,000 years without PeTA and other animal right groups exploiting perceived abuse. These organizations generate huge financial gains from each of their campaigns.
Fact: PeTA generated over 49 million in donations last year and made about 3.5 Million in each campaign against the sled dog. This is 7 times as much money as the Iditarod generates and spreads to all the mushers who passionately invest their lives 24:7 into historical and purposeful bred sled dog and tradition of mushing. Follow the money and what has it been used for?
Educate yourselves on the agenda of animal right groups as they work towards ending all animal husbandry, animal ownership (including our house pets) and take monies away from Animal Welfare who can and do legal inspections, legal removal and sheltering of animals in legitimate need, and able to bring about convictions against abuse.
Kudos to our Federal Government for apologizing and taking responsibility for a terrible black mark in history done against the Inuit and their Sled Dogs in the 1950s/60s... Thank you for paying out 20 million in trust in August 2019 as a first step towards the restoration of the Inuit and their sled dogs lives mutually shared.
Thank you to the Ombudsman for their recognizing the Sled Dog movie made by a PeTA filmmaker using our CBC monies to do so, said it was a point of view and ruled it should be identified as an "opinion piece" and not a true representation of the Sled Dog industry.
