Mushing

[SternRose]

Hello!?!? Ok this not about dogs but, I need rabbit names, 1-2buck names then 3-6 doe names. Bucks are gunna be Chocolate buck and/or blue buck, does gunna be chocolate otters and/or blue otters. They are going to be breeding trios and 4-h, I'm think a chocolate buck name being ennrique iglacious, and a blue buck as maybe Rosco bossco

 

[Americano Blue]

any one else run Alaskan huskies?

 

[RezChamp]

http://helpsleddogs.org/

this website and websites like it bug the heck out of me. theses people have NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!

if you are a actual musher then you would know that sled dogs are the happiest dogs in the world! They LIVE to pull and run. duh they are going to be tired after a training run! THIS DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!!!  

not every musher is the cold, heartless, jerk, uncaring, dog-hates they say we are.

and whips are mostly used as a starting signal not to hit the dogs.

Wow. Some humans apparently live in a world of "The Enquirer" rag mag.
I've put up with the remarks and half truths and outright lies of sensationalism for quite awhile.
I have never known a musher that treats his or her dogs like that site speaks of.
However I have met many humans that treat humans with disdain. Quite frankly I can see why they may make that choice. According to how my dogs are so loyal and willing to please me they are.
That being said I guess I'm one of those inHUMANe humans keeping their dogs on chains but at least they ain't getting shot at or eating dirty diapers in the back allies or drinking antifreeze left out by miserable neighbours, or getting bumped by cars, or suffering from diabetes brought on by commercial dog food consumption, or suffering dysplacia(?) because of inbreeding for "show quality" designer dogs, or stuffed into tiny cages in puppymills, or heavily medicated for anxiety disorders because they lay on a couch in a house all day, or............ Yup the list is quite extensive.
I think some humans need to get a life and stop humanizing animals and animalizing humans.
Please don't get me wrong. There may be some humans who do mistreat their dogs as there are those that think it is "humane" to keep a parrot in a small cage and teach it to talk like a human or maybe a dog to where a dress and dance or keep it in a cutsie pie little handbag and feed it bits of chill dog or "wheat thins" just as there may be those who have a Qimmiq in a condo in Mexico City or dolphins and Orcas in big aquariums in Marine Land, or maybe 10,000 head of force fed feeder beef in a fence on a 120 acres walking around in their own excrement up their bellies, or 10,000 chickens in a facility not larger than a football field producing eggs, or......
It's like" Let's take a herd of Polar Bears to The Congo and train them to eat fruits and rootss. It's preposterous, but I "guess" some people have a need to paint all with the same brush.
Human beings are blessed with the largest brain to body mass than any other creature. We are apparently the most intelligent creatures on Earth and yet we are the only part of God's good Creation seemingly bent on destroying all that which was put in place to keep us alive.
The comments on the site Americano Blue linked begs me to ask,"What more can you expect from a creature that is so self destructive?"

I've been around mushers for many years and the only time I heard of one using a whip was a story about a mean man that lived long ago that eventually got tore-up by his dogs and when someone found them they were sitting quietly. He took them and used them for many years on his trap line. Never had a problem with them dogs. They were a good team of dogs that even his children played with.

".When you leave this world your dogs that have gone ahead of you will meet you before you get to that wonderful place of everlasting. Mind how you treat them in this world"

That was a saying I heard many of my old people say many times and again. Well, that's closest I can come to translating it to English anyhow.

Be it known, The mushers I have spoken to have a very high degree of respect for their dogs.
Some owe their very lives to their dogs. I am one of them.
If it is considered inhumane how I treat my dogs, then if there is a hell perhaps I be going there for the way I treat people. That being said, most humans will be going there too. Perhaps even the ones that are making these silly remarks on that site.
But I have a strong feeling that my dogs that have gone on before me are going to be very happy to see me and I will have the most glorious sled ride the Ever After.
Oh man. I just got so lonesome for my old dogs just now.
Dog is God spelled backwards. Who's to know? I'm just a mushy old musher. Who am I to judge?

 

[Americano Blue]

Wow. Some humans apparently live in a world of "The Enquirer" rag mag.
I've put up with the remarks and half truths and outright lies of sensationalism for quite awhile.
I have never known a musher that treats his or her dogs like that site speaks of.
However I have met many humans that treat humans with disdain. Quite frankly I can see why they may make that choice. According to how my dogs are so loyal and willing to please me they are.
That being said I guess I'm one of those inHUMANe humans keeping their dogs on chains but at least they ain't getting shot at or eating dirty diapers in the back allies or drinking antifreeze left out by miserable neighbours, or getting bumped by cars, or suffering from diabetes brought on by commercial dog food consumption, or suffering dysplacia(?) because of inbreeding for "show quality" designer dogs, or stuffed into tiny cages in puppymills, or heavily medicated for anxiety disorders because they lay on a couch in a house all day, or............ Yup the list is quite extensive.
I think some humans need to get a life and stop humanizing animals and animalizing humans.
Please don't get me wrong. There may be some humans who do mistreat their dogs as there are those that think it is "humane" to keep a parrot in a small cage and teach it to talk like a human or maybe a dog to where a dress and dance or keep it in a cutsie pie little handbag and feed it bits of chill dog or "wheat thins" just as there may be those who have a Qimmiq in a condo in Mexico City or dolphins and Orcas in big aquariums in Marine Land, or maybe 10,000 head of force fed feeder beef in a fence on a 120 acres walking around in their own excrement up their bellies, or 10,000 chickens in a facility not larger than a football field producing eggs, or......
It's like" Let's take a herd of Polar Bears to The Congo and train them to eat fruits and rootss. It's preposterous, but I "guess" some people have a need to paint all with the same brush.
Human beings are blessed with the largest brain to body mass than any other creature. We are apparently the most intelligent creatures on Earth and yet we are the only part of God's good Creation seemingly bent on destroying all that which was put in place to keep us alive.
The comments on the site Americano Blue linked begs me to ask,"What more can you expect from a creature that is so self destructive?"

I've been around mushers for many years and the only time I heard of one using a whip was a story about a mean man that lived long ago that eventually got tore-up by his dogs and when someone found them they were sitting quietly. He took them and used them for many years on his trap line. Never had a problem with them dogs. They were a good team of dogs that even his children played with.

".When you leave this world your dogs that have gone ahead of you will meet you before you get to that wonderful place of everlasting. Mind how you treat them in this world"

That was a saying I heard many of my old people say many times and again. Well, that's closest I can come to translating it to English anyhow.

Be it known, The mushers I have spoken to have a very high degree of respect for their dogs.
Some owe their very lives to their dogs. I am one of them.
If it is considered inhumane how I treat my dogs, then if there is a hell perhaps I be going there for the way I treat people. That being said, most humans will be going there too. Perhaps even the ones that are making these silly remarks on that site.
But I have a strong feeling that my dogs that have gone on before me are going to be very happy to see me and I will have the most glorious sled ride the Ever After.
Oh man. I just got so lonesome for my old dogs just now.
Dog is God spelled backwards. Who's to know? I'm just a mushy old musher. Who am I to judge.

I love my dogs to death. they are better workers then some people i know. I don't use a whip.... Well, on a horse but not dogs. If one of my dogs doesn't want to run today, i won't make him. I've learned a dog who doesn't want to run either won't run or won't run well. Learning when the dogs have an "off day" helps you a lot. Punishing a dog when he's "not in the game" only makes it worse. I keep dogs on chain for safety. We have so many ranchers out here, and the dogs kind of look like wolves or coyotes, so they would be shot. My kennel is fenced however so they get to wonder around it with out a chain on most days when I'm home.
Like i said i LOVE my dogs.

 

[wyoDreamer]

My husky was an apartment, couch potato dog. She slept in my bed with me. She was from show dog lines, even though I bought her as a pet quality pup at 3 months old. I had her trained enough that I could walk her on a leash and she wouldn't pull at all, I used a harness with her. I would take her to open spaces and let her run as often as possible. Usually an old field or, when I was in college, an underused park area. She was an incredible gopher killer and the groundskeeper gave her a standing ovation one day - he brought her a dog biscuit "to pay her for her services". She was the love of my life and the best dog ever.

I discovered the Husky secret one winter by mistake when she was about 4 years old. These dogs are born to pull!! They live for it, it is the joy in their life !! A friend and I decided to go cross-country skiing. To keep the dogs with us, I put her on the leash with a longer line. It wasn't until later that I figured out what was going on Without ever being trained, she immediately took position in front of me and just stood there watching me over her shoulder. I said, lets go and she started off, tail curled over her back, at a trot, and then she leaned into that leash. And proceeded to pull me over. She instantly stopped, backed up about 2 feet and sat down. She then waited for me to get up, when I was on my feet, she took position again. I got smarter this time and tied her around my waist. We had a blast! She always stayed in her wheel track, never crossing over to the other side. From then on, everytime I loaded the skis into the car, my sweetheart would lose her mind with excitement.

 

[Americano Blue]

My husky was an apartment, couch potato dog. She slept in my bed with me. She was from show dog lines, even though I bought her as a pet quality pup at 3 months old. I had her trained enough that I could walk her on a leash and she wouldn't pull at all, I used a harness with her. I would take her to open spaces and let her run as often as possible. Usually an old field or, when I was in college, an underused park area. She was an incredible gopher killer and the groundskeeper gave her a standing ovation one day - he brought her a dog biscuit "to pay her for her services". She was the love of my life and the best dog ever.

I discovered the Husky secret one winter by mistake when she was about 4 years old. These dogs are born to pull!! They live for it, it is the joy in their life !! A friend and I decided to go cross-country skiing. To keep the dogs with us, I put her on the leash with a longer line. It wasn't until later that I figured out what was going on Without ever being trained, she immediately took position in front of me and just stood there watching me over her shoulder. I said, lets go and she started off, tail curled over her back, at a trot, and then she leaned into that leash. And proceeded to pull me over. She instantly stopped, backed up about 2 feet and sat down. She then waited for me to get up, when I was on my feet, she took position again. I got smarter this time and tied her around my waist. We had a blast! She always stayed in her wheel track, never crossing over to the other side. From then on, everytime I loaded the skis into the car, my sweetheart would lose her mind with excitement.

Cool!! I've never tried skijoring. I did ski for a while but i was terrible at it. I don't know if you have or not, but you should buy her a skijoring harness and a line. What breed of husky. Siberian?

 

[SternRose]

That's awesome!! I wish I could do that but I can't cuz I've never skied before. And my husky is not lead dog type. She's a team player or wheel.
Part of that's cuz I accidently trained her that way, not knowing I was training her wrong, I cought it to late. She's had like 2-21/2yrs of this team training and I'm not changing that.

 

[RezChamp]

Skijoring. In my years of running sled dogs Ive never tried skijoring. It's on my to do list.

Yup yup. Sibes are literally bred and born to pull. They are a practical work of art designed by Nature and the Chukchi people of Far East Siberia.
And yes these Chukchi dogs are indeed smart, and energetic, and,...and,...
I have said so often(may be first time here) " Most (humans) would be very hard pressed to find someone that truly appreciates dog as I.".
I knew of the "Husky secret" long before I acquired a single one.
To date I have had the pleasurable company of literally hundreds of Huskies and not once have I ever kept one cooped up in my home unless they were sick.
I found out why not to the hard way. I took Baron(my Dobey) with me when I went logging in the Manitoba "outback". The foot and toe pads on Baron became de-climatized sleeping in a nice warm camp with me. They all got severely frost bitten when Baron practically chewed a hole in the wall to come with me when I went for jog one crisp December night. Took months to heal. I swore I'd not do that again to an animal I loved. I swore also that I would never have another dog that was not "built for the climate in which I live.
Personal experience causes me to say I personally feel we all have the right to enough humility to do some homework before we pick a pet or any animal we may want to share our lives with.
In sharing these stories my intention is to assist. If anyone chooses to feel hurt, angered or insulted by what I lovingly shareI truly am sorry.

On a more easy going note,
WEEEEEEE!!!!! I saw snowflakes when I went for a walk this night. They were really small and very few but they were indeed SNOWFLAKES.e

 

[RezChamp]

Hey mushers. G-day eh!!
For those of you that are especially interested in Siberian Husky I found a easier way to explain the breed rather than write a story.
On your goole search bar type in Chukchi Dog, search, click images, scroll down 16 rows, far right a very old black and white photo of Indian looking couple with a baby in a cradle board(a dog in foreground),click it. When it opens click on "visit page". "Siberian Husky History" open.
Lots of old photos of what the original Sibe looked like as opposed to the cookie cutter standardized, inbred, genetic weaklings of today.
Another search is Siberian Laika.
Interesting and eye opening for some of us.
HAGD every1

 

[SternRose]

It's getting colder down here! Today is like 50's
It's usually in the 70's