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Dream job? Chipping frozen pee from doghouses at minus-40 part of allure for dog handlers
Alaska Dispatch News ^ | December 31, 2014 | John Schandelmeier|

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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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Sports
KEYWORDS: alaska; dogs
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1 posted on 01/01/2015 7:23:20 PM PST by skeptoid
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To: skeptoid

Celsius or Fahrenheit? :{)


2 posted on 01/01/2015 7:24:35 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

doe pee actually freeze at practical temps?


3 posted on 01/01/2015 7:25:47 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: skeptoid

Don’t go where the huskies go.


4 posted on 01/01/2015 7:30:13 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: skeptoid

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.


5 posted on 01/01/2015 7:31:16 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: gorush

at -40, they are actually exactly the same.


6 posted on 01/01/2015 7:33:27 PM PST by lump in the melting pot (Half-brother is Watching You!)
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To: gorush
Since you ask, the two scales actually cross at -40

-40 C = -40 F!

7 posted on 01/01/2015 7:36:49 PM PST by skeptoid (the thot plickens)
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To: skeptoid

Really? I never knew that till now.
(the two scales cross at -40.)


8 posted on 01/01/2015 7:41:36 PM PST by lee martell
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To: RitchieAprile

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


9 posted on 01/01/2015 8:13:39 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn))
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To: lee martell
"Really? I never knew that till now. (the two scales cross at -40.)"

Just be careful not to cross the streams!

10 posted on 01/01/2015 8:31:51 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: skeptoid

I thought that if you lived in Alaska you didn’t worry about cleaning up till spring.


11 posted on 01/01/2015 8:32:00 PM PST by ThomasThomas (EGO venit lego tantum titulus Posteri)
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To: Don W

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.


12 posted on 01/01/2015 8:36:50 PM PST by ArmyTeach ( Videteco eos prius (See 'em first) Sculpin 191)
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To: skeptoid

Shown on “Dirty Jobs” a while back - didn’t look like much fun.....


13 posted on 01/01/2015 8:40:19 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: ArmyTeach

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.


14 posted on 01/01/2015 8:51:10 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn))
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To: RitchieAprile

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. :-)


15 posted on 01/01/2015 10:37:09 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: skeptoid
I guess it's better than chipping frozen pee from dogs at minus 50.
16 posted on 01/01/2015 11:31:18 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: lee martell

Yes....F=9/5*C +32..... C=5/9F -32


17 posted on 01/02/2015 3:14:15 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: skeptoid

http://helpsleddogs.org/


18 posted on 01/02/2015 3:41:22 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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