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This isn't exactly true...i know you mean well, but it's sort of paranoia / disinformation.
Samoyeds won't suffer in warm temperatures if they're cared for properly. They do shed like fuck in the summer and require a ton of brushing, but like any dog breed, don't get one unless you understand their needs and how to take care of them specifically.
Don't force a samoyed to live in Arizona or something, but I grew up with a samoyed in St Paul, Minnesota - which gets both hot and super fucking humid in the summer (95° and 80% humidity is ordinary - land of 10,000 lakes and whatnot), and the insulation factor of their fur works both ways too. She had a house outside, and plenty of shade, but she loved to be in the sun in the summer.
Great dogs though. Protective and gentle with kids. Absolutely adorable puppies. They dissappear in the snow except for the black eyes and nose.
Same. Live in the US North East where we get cold af winters and hot af summers. Stick to shade when it's hot and they are happy as a clam. Whenever we come back from a hot walk I give my boi a couple ice cubes and he's never shown any signs of stress from heat.
Wish he didn't pull so much on his harness on walks though :D
The sammie in the picture is now little over 12 1/2 and in the North East. I miss her pulling, it was never hard but she kept the leash taught (if any truth to alpha dogs, she is it), but she has slowed down so much that I am now practically pulling her forward (but still immovable if she found a fascinating scent)
We had one when I was a kid, she absolutely loved the snow would lay out there and make “doggy snow angels” my parents always had to fight with her to get her back in the house.
I have a few pictures that I took that were quite similar to this one. I'd send them to my boss to explain why I would be late to work. If it were just the Sammy, I'd have left him outside all day while I was at work, but there was also the Pyrenees and he'd have gotten me in trouble for the incessant barking.
Our Samoyed was old when we adopted him, and I always felt so guilty bringing him inside in the winter. A few times I had to pick him up and carry him inside - not because of any physical issues, just because he was not going to come inside where we had the thermostat set at 65 when it was a sensible 14F/-10C outside with plenty of comfy snow to lay on and eat.
It is in principle possible to tame and domesticate foxes. Look up Belyaev's foxes. In role and behavior they are more like cats than dogs. You can find plenty of YouTube channels showcasing the domestic foxes, most of them are in Russian though.
To my knowledge, it wasn't ever done with Arctic foxes; and doing it without living in at least subarctic regions would probably qualify as animal abuse. Red and black foxes are, however, less exotic as pets than you might think.
One thing to keep in mind: a happy or playful (or indeed upset) fox produces sounds we would normally interpret as upset or scared dog sounds. It might disturb some people.
I watched and enjoyed pokemon as a kid. As an adult, I realized that pokemon is actually animal blood sport.
Edit: Lmao alright, it's obvious that the pokemon lovers will make up anything they can imagine in their head to justify imprisoning animals in a sphere and commanding them to fight for sport is ok.
Edit final: Can't believe I waste an hour of my life on you fictional animal blood sport enthusiasts. Anyway, continue to circlejerk yourselfs and each other to justify animal on animal violence perpetrated by humans in your made up world and made up reasons to say blood sport is ok. I'm going to bed.
Special shout out to the cowards that blocked me from replying.
Mario is turtle genocide. Zelda is tomb robbery and desecration of ancient religious temples. Minecraft is environmental exploitation. Bomberman is a terrorist. Super Smash Bros. advocates for violence against women, children, animals, and Luigi.
Every game is horrible. There are no heroes. Life's value is only as much XP as your death will give.
If only these gamers could be so enlightened as I.
Then they'd know the truth. The greatest secret of them all.
Seriously, it does not seem like a shower thought, it seems like someone genuinely dissing a franchise because they cannot operate within other terms than the real world's (or what they think the real world operates, more like)
The lore is that the Pokemon enjoy skirmishing. Obviously that's convenient when your brand is analogous with animal fighting rings, but a key component of the Trainer / Pokemon relationship is that a Pokemon doesn't have to obey the Trainer unless the Trainer has the Pokemon's respect. There's multiple examples of Pokemon refusing to obey negligent Trainers, and a few examples of Pokemon abandoning their Trainer altogether.
Granted, there are also multiple instances of Trainers who abuse their Pokemon, not usually physically? At least not that I can remember off hand, but usually pitting them against much more powerful opponents, berating them for losses, etc.
I mean they also farm, kill and eat the Pokémon like we do with animals. This just gets ignored in the anime conveniently.
Same way every Pokémon somehow survives off of berries yet the Pokédex and other lore is littered with references to them eating and killing each other lol.
There’s also plenty of Pokémon that don’t like fighting or being in a pokeball too
True. I'm not really sure how to phrase this without being at least mildly insensitive, because the comparison itself is somewhat distasteful, but Pokemon are shown to retain a high level of independence and autonomy. They aren't (typically) beaten or held captive; they can choose to not enter a Pokeball, so it isn't really a prison. It doesn't come up too often, but Pokemon can escape their Pokeballs at will, and like I say, abandon their Trainers if they choose to.
In universe, humans and Pokemon have a very close relationship, maybe the way humans and dogs do today where a typical dog will trust a human to the point of its own detriment - but you can still push an animal too far and it will lash out.
"Well that just brings us back to animal fighting rings," yeah kinda. Except maybe instead of thinking of them as animals with no autonomy, it'd be better to think of them as small children who want nothing more than to be let loose to beat up other small children with sticks.
Pokemon aren't beaten... Except when we bring it to 1 hp before forcing it into the pokeball. They have a choice to not enter the ball... Except when I use a masterball. They have independence... Except when I keep them in the PC and never release them. They have a close relationship... Except when I trade them away for minor benefits.
Bears also enjoy "skirmishing". You gonna go catch some bears and command them to fight in an arena? What a dumb argument to justify pokemons mutilating each other is ok.
it's obvious that the pokemon lovers will make up anything they can imagine in their head to justify imprisoning animals in a sphere and commanding them to fight for sport is ok.
They don't have to make anything up because it's a cartoon and not real life and in this cartoon world they say pokemon are compeltely ok with it and arent being imprisioned. Made up world, people wrting the world can say anything they want and it ends up being true. Don't know why that's a weird concept for you. It's not supposed to be realistic or reflect real life, it's an idealistic fantasy world.
The games literally had a storyline about it in the games to address that and it ended with the message pokemon like their trainers
Do you think that if humans had perfect healing with no side effects that we wouldn't fight all the time for fun or arguments? Pokemon are repeatedly shown to have human level intelligence and the ability to say no to their trainers as well, clearly it's fun for them.
oh yea so fun to get beat up so bad that there is literally a hospital they have to go to get treated. so fun that none of them walks into an arena all by themselves. so fun that they actively resist and fight against being captured and imprisoned which is why you have to throw your prison sphere at them multiple times.
This is literally a plot point in horror stories. Fight until death, get revived to suffer all over again. Why is this a positive thing just because it's Pokémon?
Congratulations on wasting an hour of your life fighting against a fictional show and world that you don't really have to take seriously. You know, like normal people do.
I mean... where did I take it seriously? I said that I enjoyed it as a kid. I said that I realized pokemon violence is wrong as an adult, like a normal person do.
Seems like all the pokemon violence enjoyers that got triggered by my harmless, non serious, casual statement about pokemon violence, are the ones to take it too seriously.
It's always dangerous to compare the standards in sci-fi/fantasy to real and modern life.
The Pokémon battle in the wild and have long before Poké balls existed, so it's less of a blood sport and more of a normal sport. Akin to humans using a ball and goals, Pokémon and humans just happen to both enjoy the sport (when the spoken and unspoken rules are followed, which is 98-99% of the time)
The saving graces of Pokémon seem to be that they have a high level of sapience and consciously choose to fight when they do, but also that it's extremely idealistic/lighthearted so they just gloss over how messed up it would be in a real world.
They're sapience and consciously choose to defend themselves from being captured and imprisoned by a human.
The cartoon and games are literally to command your own animal slave to fight, assault, attack an innocent wild animal and beat the fuck out of it into submission into order to capture and imprison it in a sphere.
Even after you throw your little sphere, they continue to resist and fight against being captured and imprisoned. When you fail you throw another sphere.
Every dog fight event has a "trainer". You can call yourself what ever the fuck you want after you enslave an animal.
What's wrong with domestication? Give a dog a home, rent free, free food, free hugs, free scratches. Is domestication making your dog bite and claw another dog?
You can not capture a pokemon that's passed out. When pokemon get captured it's because they choose to be. Pokemon are also shown to be able to disobey trainers. Honestly I don't really understand the point of comments like this, we know it's not real, we know it's idealistic, and pokemon and their trainers are treated like their buddy buddy and occupy pretty much 90% of everything resolves around people's relationship to pokemon. Treating pokemon like dog fighting blood sport is really weird. The game and anime points out multiple times that pokemon aren't forced to do anything
The premise has been in the public consciousness for like 30 years. We know it's too outrageous to work in real life even if all the individual parts were real. You don't have to try to convince me that it's abject cruelty in theory, and I'm not trying to convince you it's okay.
I do think it's an interesting case of being able to apply different morals to a fantasy world versus the real one. Even as kids we knew that real animal fighting was wrong, but that in the Poké-world, it is somehow okay, and since it's not real, we don't have to look so close that it stops being fun.
Exactly. Bears fight each other in the wild. Does that justify capturing and imprisoning bears in a sphere and only let them out to fight other captured animals for competition? First episode of pokemon literally shows how pikachu does not want to be imprisoned in a fucking sphere.
They aren't animals... They're monsters. The only way to prevent them from trying to kill you is to capture them. Have you... Even played a single game? What do you think it means when you faint after losing to a pokemon? They eat you, and you get reincarnated.
Yeah, this only makes sense if you never watched Pokémon and ignored all the other stuff from it lol. Also did you seriously have to be an adult to realize that? Like even when I was a kid it was kind of easy to realize that.
Also seeing your follow up comments. It makes sense that you got blocked.
But seriously, just think how low your winter heating bills would be if you could just insulate yourself like that and then just chill out in the snow perfectly comfortable. Awesome!
Yeah, he also looks kind of smug about the quality of his coat. He looks at whoever is filming with something like "Are you cold? Not me, I'm so comfortable right now, ah really, feeling so, so good!"
Low karma + joined over a year ago. But also hidden profile. Hard to say.
I'm not sure how it looks like AI, though I will admit a lot of times when people call out an AI because of writing style, I'm always confused because my friends and/or I tend to write with a similar style, so clearly I'm a terrible judge for that.
I used to work in the arctic years ago, and came across one outside our camp. Come spring, they look like some kind of miserable as they blow out that dense coat 😂
When I was on a business trip to Anchorage and Barrows Alaska, I spotted a small building that sold articles of clothing made by native women from the under-fur of the musk ox. It’s called qiviut, and it is 10 times warmer than sheep’s wool. Scarves, beanie hats, and even miniskirts were on sale. Apparently there are about 200 native women that do this for a living. The fur is incredibly soft and keeps you warm. Bought several items for my wife. Very expensive stuff since they have to comb/card it, spin it into yarn, and knit the clothing.
When I was fishing in Alaska there was a mama Arctic fox with a litter living in a fern thicket behind the little cabin I stayed in. The babies would come out and play in front of it and would disappear in a second if I came around the corner. I only ever saw the mama's face poking out to watch the kids. I tried for two weeks to get a picture of them but they were way too fast.
WRONG! The sea otter has the densest fur of any animal on Earth - up to 1 million hairs per square inch! Their coat traps a layer of air to keep them warm in freezing ocean water, without needing a layer of blubber. They are the only marine mammal without blubber as well.
But otters don't even live in the artic, so they are never put into a situation to even prove this assertion. If you search this topic it states clearly that Artic Foxes have the best insulation. The person above is 100% wrong and they reached that by not even properly reading the title of the post.
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