They say a good start is essential in sled dogs. We did what needed to anticipate the galley and prepare to start and then when it happens, it is made same.
Life with dogs has nothing to do with science, at most, know-how improvement. And when we believe happened, good enough for any cash, there are surprises. It is the effect weekend . It is a guide, we manage the boat and when comes the weekend, it offered an outlet not only of himself. We take dogs into believing they want to override the natural enmity of the kennel. And we go on hoping to have fun and find ourselves to the discipline throughout the day. I had lived two or three times last winter, I lived with my folks this winter.
It is not always easy to trace the chain of (bad) decisions that lead to living one of those days where you end up in separate fights repeatedly, screaming in the snow, to lose patience. Initially, there is often a departure went wrong.
A departure, especially at the kennel is too full of animal energy that comes from seeking our own animal. It is a disorder of the inner compass by a sensory explosion of noise and smells of dogs that need attention, or who seek to provoke. Those who are used to calm reasoning will be destabilized by the time we live .
is the time of the encounter between the dogs and mushers apprentice, a moment of shared excitement. And the excitement is contagious ... The dogs start showing their desire to leave, sometimes try to start before the musher is installed in the hope of doubling the sled front. It is a mud pot, the lid trembles, be careful that the content does not overflow. For humans, this canine excitement mingled with the musher posturing can lead to stress.
Sometimes things do not happen as we would in the first meters. The apprentice mushers try to remember, point by point, what was said. Stories brake, deadman, the words to say to the dogs, etc.. The dogs, who are real pros, generally react properly. Generally. In the opposite case, the apprentice mushers, who care about dogs, are sorry and stress generated faded more about dogs.
The basic survival instinct of every human being is to blame others: dogs or people. As a guide, we can not close our eyes. If dogs do not react properly, is that the learner mushers have made too many mistakes, and if the apprentice mushers have made mistakes, is that the guide had not been anticipated and / or failed to explain and / or over-estimated the capacity of its people. In short, there is a justice to see him screaming his despair in the snow.
And when came the first manifestation of the law the bitch up must find a plan to end the crisis and prioritize objectives:
1. Ensure human safety
2. Preserve the health of dogs
3. Household equipment
Amid expedition, when we found in remote areas, cordiality and well-session passes immédiatemment secondary. Decisions are made, and it is better that they be good.
This week, the law of the pain in the ass maximum started with a hitch in the tangled stake-out on departure. Dogs stuck together, looking at the sled from the front, feeling the sled approaching from behind. And then the effect stack: a modified trailer that morning, bringing two friends who are not coupled together for several months. Not quite an essay, but almost. Hence the mechanical
implacable law of and the first fight twenty yards after the lines untangled.
First bad decision on my part: a robust intervention where there have been more diplomatic. Ouchka Skouta jumped on the wrong foot because it had stressed. In short, nothing personal and I reacted as if this was a manifestation of dominance. He needed that reassures him, not to hear him scream a musher in the ears.
result, new fighting hundred yards away. Context switch, the commitment is tougher this time, I fear for Skouta so I chose once again robust intervention. Can I separate the two dogs and returns Skouta a little magan at its original place alongside his brother ... it jumps over two miles away. It is oddly
a dog's head Nordic! Ca group think, always. It feels the intensity of a hybrid collective act of humans, dogs and squirrels moaners who inveigh passers from the highest branches spruce. Gandhi said Be the change you want to see in the world , I'd be energy you want to see in your dogs . And that day, the energy was wrong from the outset.
begins a race against time. Time passes and distills the bad energy, then we must stretch this time for the wrong kind of energy heads. Must register the dog in the quiet routine of the road, which is very difficult to do when one is engaged on a track to open, snow up above the knees, sweating, sweating profusely, jersey and pants soaked, dog head half buried in snow. More difficult to do even when you're like me, a musher too demanding, too impatient, grumpy when everyone (humans and dogs involved) does not work in the same direction. And the time that elapses, pushes up the pace to find an open path, a frozen lake, anything that allows dogs and humans to return to the routine way.
The path has been found before that things really get tough. The end of the runway ridges leading to Pike Lake and from there, the cross and the path of the kennel. There were subsequently other incidents and some sores, but time is elongated and eventually take its toll. We spend a lot of time and energy to avoid having to live one of those days too stressful leaving marks on the bodies and minds. And which requires above all a good slagging the Cereal Monogamist, both physical and moral point. When we ended up living one of those days, you know why it has reason to be overly prescriptive and sometimes grumpy at times of departures. Like the vast majority of them do not experience major hiccups, we go for a cranky pessimist - it is always milder than going to an incompetent.
second lesson, physical coercion, even when necessary, is never a solution. Sometimes you bang your fist to preserve the health of dogs fighting, but when you are led to such ends is that it has failed in its role as an educator of dogs. The calm brought by force is of short duration. Forty seconds or two minutes of quiet that gives us the blow should be immediately put to use otherwise the bad energy will continue to creep into their heads, threatening animals and even humans.
time mushers brutal and vicious dogs are gone. The era Leisure and adventure activities are peaceful relations. And we still have to pacify these relationships. It is the job of humans. As mushers, behavioral science and our experience helps us, it must also be able to reform itself. Be more patient, more understanding, grow calm inside. Most would agree that some guys are going to earn their crust in the woods do not necessarily have natural dispositions in these areas. Personally, I started practicing meditation, but again I must find the routine way.
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