• LambeauLeap@sopuli.xyz
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    22 hours ago

    Nah dogs have mad endurance too. My dog comes mountain biking with me and runs 20 miles, I have a friend that rode 40 miles with his border Collie following. I have another friend that studies mountain lions and hikes with a rat terrier trained to sniff out scat and they do about 15-20 miles/day

    Dogs have been hunting partners for humans for likely tens of thousands of years. They should have comparable endurance…they go wherever we go

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      19 hours ago

      Some older dogs - well, at least one good boi I met by a stunning lake - will run and run and run to the point they can barely walk the following days. Dog sooo wanted to fetch this stick so owner has to ask:

      Please don’t throw that stick. […]

      Can take his youth… not his drive!

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      21 hours ago

      They have good enough endurance for the hunts they’d be involved with us for, but we are almost uniquely suited for endurance in the animal kingdom.

      Becoming terminators is maybe the real thing that launched our ancestors.