Fordmister

Fordmister t1_jb05zez wrote

Yeah don't know how much time you have spent with any kind of working dogs but getting them to stop before they hurt themselves is one of the hardest things for you as the person working them to do because the dogs will never willingly stop by themselves. Hunting dogs die every year running themselves into a heat stroke and you have no idea they are even struggling until they just drop because the dog gives absolutely no indication it's even tired and just keeps running, even when you aren't asking them to. When working them you are constantly having to ask them to slow down rather than pushing them to work harder.

Working dogs willingly push themselves to the absolute extemes constantly. The human is mainly there to make sure they don't push too hard, not the other way around. These sled dogs dont need to be forced to pull until they keel over. They need to be watched to make sure that they dont

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Fordmister t1_j73q2x0 wrote

I remember this being a proper formative memory, I was 15 and NHK's live broadcast was being shown on pretty much every news channel in the world, This was at around 8am UK time I think while I was getting ready for school. I always used to put the BBC news on whilst getting ready in the morning and I just couldn't look away. ended up getting to school around 2 hours late because I just couldn't stop watching.

Like I remembered the boxing day tsunami just but was too young at the time to really understand it, The live feed of a ten meter wall of water just bulldozing everything it its path just made the word Tsunami real in a way noting else can.

Never could bring myself to watch the footage back but just watching the doc has transported me right back to that morning, harrowing stuff.

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Fordmister t1_iwkxq60 wrote

Eh dropping a hyper concentration of any organism into a small area will cause a huge amount of ecological damage even of the animal is native. There's a reason all the big conservation reserves in Africa still practise controlled culling of endangered species.

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