#greenland dogs

[wolfslayer]

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[thehmn]

Depending on who you ask Santa lives in the North Pole, Finland, Greenland and probably some other places and I personally really like the idea of there being more than one Santa who all handle Christmas a bit differently but I’ve never met anyone else who does.

I’m just very invested in the idea that Greenland Santa use magical sledge dogs instead of reindeer okay

[darkwood-sleddog]

If you have a deep fascination with sled dog genetics, breed split, and sled breed histories this is a very interesting study.

[dogfancier]

"Amundsen's Pet Dog Oolik." - Likely Ole, son of Silla, one of the Greenland dogs Roald Amundsen brought on the first successful expedition to sail the Northwest Passage in 1903-06. Photographed in Nome, Alaska. Published 1913.

[multyashka-sweet]

Freya

[fjordfolk]

"Obersten" was a lead of the teams of Greenland dogs that took Roald Amundsen and his companions to the South Pole in 1911. He's easily recognizable in photos due to having damaged his ear in a fight with another dog during their stay in Antarctica.

Amundsen's expedition was a right massacre in terms of dogs. Out of the over 100 that were present on Fram, and out of the 52 that left Framheim for the Pole, only 3 dogs returned to Norway and Obersten was the only to have made it all the way. Most of the others were killed for food, some died of sickness on the return trip, and some were sold on to other expeditions.

Obersten's survival and return was, in addition to his hardiness and strength of character, due to his bond with fellow polar explorer Oscar Wisting. He's said to have stood out as particularly willfull and stubborn from the very start of the expedition, and upon retirement, he spent the rest of his life as Wisting's family dog. As the story goes, the family's youngest son and some friends decided one winter day to have Obersten pull a sled in a makeshift dog race - but once their plans became known, Oscar ran out 'in only his shirt' to put an end to their shenanigans (to everyone's great disappointment - including the dog, probably) saying something to the effect of "this dog has pulled far too much for much too far in his life, and should never have to pull another gramme."

[despazito]

ive gotten obsessed with that furry paws game you were posting about. It really scratches that itch of old internet that I've been craving.

Anyway I've been breeding borzois and chihuahuas (aka longs and shorts)

it's pretty neat! i've been sharpening my colour genetic skills with their gene minigame

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[yorkiegregg]

“Sled Dog puppies” feasting on a deceased Whale calf, photographed in Kulusuk Southeastern Greenland - taken from Clemens Stockner on Wikimedia Commons.

[ghost-faces]

edward gow

[kangals]

What's your thoughts on American Indian dogs? (This is a picture of 2 of them that came into the pet supply store I used to work at).

im gonna be honest, i know they exist but not much beyond that - they're not a breed i find particularly interesting, so i haven't looked into them. are these the same things as native american indian dogs, or are those different? there's sooo many of these generic-husky-shepherdy-wolfy projects that i can never remember what is what. but at least with NAIDs i'm pretty sure i remember some bullshit going around recently with a breeder(s?) claiming their dogs had no wolf content when they actually had a significant amount, which is, uh, wildly unethical.

i'm also innately distrustful of any sort of 'historic breed recreation' like this because they tend to be a very... almost fetishistic sort of project. especially considering this is supposed to be a recreation of the dogs that lived with native americans and first nations. are native people actually involved in this project and helping with guidance and direction? or is this just yet another case of Dog People deciding that a historic, landrace breed should Actually Look Like This and ignoring their place of origin? are we actually studying the historic dogs and using the modern american village dogs and rez dogs that still exist today as our founders? or are we just mashing wolfy-looking breeds together because wolves = majestic = totally native american?

idk man i'd love to be proven wrong here, so if someone can refute this and show me that this is a project sanctioned by actual native peoples and with a concise goal in mind, cool. but my surface impression has been more or less that it's Dog People playing dress-up with wolfy-looking dogs under the guise of claiming it's a breed recreation.

[tentacion3099]

Danish soldier from the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol on Greenland with a Greenlandic sled dog

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[dogfancier]

Helge Ingstad with Greenland dogs Suggen and Storm, carrying packs. Photographed on Greenland, 1932 or 1933.

[multyashka-sweet]

Freya Commission for foxjump

[fjordfolk]

sled doggos

[yorkiegregg]

Still thinking about sharks ough