Siberian husky

Dog in Russia warms up on a pipe carrying hot water

-31F/-35C in Yakutsk, Russia. Heat pipe warms Siberian husky

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This is an amusing photo but I guess also instructive to someone like me. Firstly, it tells us how bloody cold it is in Yakutsk which is the capital city of Sakha, Russia, located about 450 km south of the Arctic Circle. It is in East Siberia. Fueled by the mining industry, Yakutsk has become …

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Howling is hard-wired into ancient dog breeds but much less so in modern breeds

Wolves howl, dogs howl less and some dog breeds hardly howl at all

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The dog population is made up of purebred and random bred dogs and hybrids. I don’t know the exact breakdown as it is unclear but there are far more purebred dogs than there are purebred cats as a percentage of the whole. And research indicates that amongst a group of 68 purebred dogs some of …

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