Posted on 01/01/2015 7:23:20 PM PST by skeptoid
What is a dog handler? It is someone who is delusional enough to think that taking instructions from a professional (or amateur) dog musher might seem like good fun. Reality typically intervenes quickly and jarringly.
Handling dogs actually has less to do with the dog than the various things the dog leaves behind. The first thing a new handler is handed is the poop scooper. Summer or winter it is the same. There is less volume during the summer months, but it’s messier.
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Celsius or Fahrenheit? :{)
doe pee actually freeze at practical temps?
Don’t go where the huskies go.
I actually think I would like to spend a winter up there with the dogs. And yes, I’ve read all the Jack London stories and know fully what I’m getting into.
at -40, they are actually exactly the same.
-40 C = -40 F!
Really? I never knew that till now.
(the two scales cross at -40.)
You can take a pot of boiling water outside, throw the water in the air and it will be frozen before it hits the ground at -10. For real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkOVOJqsfYE
Just be careful not to cross the streams!
I thought that if you lived in Alaska you didn’t worry about cleaning up till spring.
Not this winter. It’s practically balmy, compared to the usual minus 40 temps we get. So far. Winter’s not over yet, by a long shot.
Shown on “Dirty Jobs” a while back - didn’t look like much fun.....
Funny you say that. It was 4* warmer today at my sister’s place in central Alberta than it was at my place on southern Van Isle.
Normally at this time of year the *HIGH* temperature there is between -5 and -25 Celcius. I remember living there and the temperature never got above -25 for two weeks straight in January.
They showed a guy chipping the stuff off the dog houses on some Alaska show we watched a couple of years ago. The winter stuff didn’t look to bad but summer must be a beach. :-)
Yes....F=9/5*C +32..... C=5/9F -32
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