Strange comparison? No, I think not because I was talking about dog races and not about living areas. And a "short" endurance race of 40 km is a race too. Otherwise I would not understand why there are times to be in to get excellent, very good and so on.
Talking about races means for me comparison not to Huskies and Malamutes in winter in Alaska. But it means for me for example the dryland worldchampionship in germany in december 2006 where my Briard and me took place with 999 other dogs and 330 racers in different classes. Talking about race distances over 3 to 7 km, run or die. Talking about racedogs which are taking part and there were only a very few of Siberian Huskies and of course no malamutes. Most there were Deutsche Kurzhaar, Alaskan Huskies which have short coat, even only skin. And for these dogs the rules I mentioned above were made. And they were not made because these dogs are not able to run when it is 24 C but they were made for health condition of the dogs! The most dogs I mentioned have even shorter coat/skin/fur than a csw!
You are right, there are no more breeds despite the csw which are runing about 40 km and more. I know some Briards which are going 20 km runs. Even so my briard is doing fine the 40 km and we will prove on saturday.
But talking about how far can a csw run, everything has be oriantated at the wolves. I never heard that a wolf was runing 190 km in one night... Maybe it is possible. One of the german wolves did 67 km in one night in the last 5 years. What I meant is that because the csw should be able to run long distances as a wolf you don´t have to forget that a wolf would never run at the day and of course not in the sun that distances! Wolves go for hunt when it starts getting dark. They hunt in the night and return in the morning. And if you are talking about what a csw should be able to do you have to think what does a wolf do and of course what is normal and good for the health of the animal. That is why we have a brain and can think and dog can not!
So, if you would say ok compared to a wolf it makes sence that wolfdog runs should be made only in time when temperature is around 10 C, I think this would be practical and good for every dog! You would give to the health of the animal respect. It is no question every normal dog would die for his owner and that is why they run for you even when it is 25 C.
It seems that some people care more for the animals than others. And to be honest, if a veterianrian in germany from the governement would get to know that someone is doing a 40 km run in temperature from 20 C and more you would get a punishment and where treated by law, that is for sure. That is why I meant that not everything what is old and was invented must be good. Some things are developing. And we have to go with the times. And that makes changing necessary. And guess what, why do you thing that wolves are living only in the north of the earth and not in the south? The most south living wolves are in Israel, India, but there are only a few. A few onces in spain, but the most wolves are living not only in empty spaces where not much people are living but also in areas where it is not so hot and there are much much wood where it is in summer cold.
I totally agree with you that every csw should be able to do the 40 km run and I think sure it could be part of the bonitation.
And for me personally 40 km is nothing, I went with my mountain bike in 6 days over 500 km and made an alps crossing not streets but only small ways.
Christian
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