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ELizabeth Brix
Boulder, CO
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ELizabeth commented on the article |Did you know it's the lead dog that determines where the pack goes? He knows the route (from repeated past experience behind the leader) and has to be the smartest dog. Gee and Haw are left and right to avoid trouble spots or difficult situations.
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ELizabeth commented on the article |
Hence the word "if" was used. I know there are a few people who train horses and dogs unethically, but there has been a recent surge in training horses and dogs to thier natural instincts.
There are always assholes. The trick is to be there to stand up to them, at the time they are being abusive, and report them to authorities, as we do with child abuse and domestic abuse and animal abuse, or the authorities in a race.
My impression from this story about the lost dog is that many Iditarod competitors tried to help her, instead of simply focusing on winning.
I simply don't think my and my horse's enjoyment of competing in jumping shows should be removed altogether, because some people abuse their horses.
The same goes for the Iditarod. Not all the animals are abused or suffer. Most do not. So why stop them from their fun (yes the dogs too) just because some people are stupid and think hurting someone is the way to motivate them? -
ELizabeth commented on the article |
Being a survivor of repeated domestic abuse (by parents, so no I could not leave, although I tried repeatedly) I can assure you I have never run up to any of my abusers and kissed them in gratitude.
I have met plenty of house dogs that did not greet their owners warmly and would surely have preferred to stay at the vet clinic than go "home."
Abuse it quite obvious. It does not need to be inferred. -
ELizabeth commented on the article |
Certainly, Huskies are the smartest in my opinion. I have had extensive experience with many breeds of dogs.
I too train horses. A freind of mine was reared up on when she was holding a horse for shots for the vet. He knocked her down and broke her arm.
See no other way? Well that would not explain why they lay down to rst when they choose to, as has been seen during the race time and again.
Beaten whipped and scared to death? Certainly you would see marks of such abuse, and physical behaviors of fear during the vet check that is required by all participants prior to registration. Also the vet at the starting line ahs refused to let dogs run who were too thin or pregnant.
If this is how you train your horses, I feel sorry for them. This is not how I train my horses. I convince them the best course of action, the easiest and most comfortable course of action is my way, but obviously, I don't always get what I want, and then we try again another day. I have found patience to be the best training tool. And since my horse loves jumping, he has a "carrot" he is rewarded with everytime we rid together. I know he loves to jump, because he does it whether I ask him to or not. Given the option of walking over a very small fence or jumping over it, he chooses jumping.
Yes I can ride my horse, and tell him what to do, and give him free choice. We take turns deciding what we will do. -
ELizabeth commented on the article |
But silly and goofy is ok.
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ELizabeth commented on the article |
You could call it fear, yes. Perhaps it is your anxiety though that he is responding to? Perhaps there is a bad smell? Perhaps he smells other dog's fear? Dogs live in the moment. You cannot tell me you know why he is afraid, without presuming to read his mind.
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ELizabeth commented on the article |
Saying a dog is dedicated, by the fact that it contiues a race without being asked to do so, on it's own time and with freedom, is an observation of it's behavior. Use whatever word you like.
Saying a dog is forced, is an interpretation that the dog does not want to do it. You are presuming to know a dog's thoughts, and therefore anthropomorphizing it's feelings about the siuation.
I have not seen any evidence thatthese dogs do not enjoy the Iditarod. Those that want to stop, do. Those that want to continue do. Even the dogs that were kicked and bitten by their owner, continued. That shows me you cannot force a dog to race.
(And the man was under investigation by the Iditarod Officials as was stated in the quotes, so they clearly are not allowing dog abuse.)
You cannot assume force, when all observations point to the ineffectiveness of force. -
ELizabeth commented on the article |Clearly you don't abuse y our little dog either, in his mind annyway.
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