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Iqaluit - Sibérien-Husky
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Nothing can replace the feeling of crew, a good driver of sled
knowing perfectly the dogs on which it depends. The husky comes to
us from peoples Inuit who used him to move all year round. During
the long arctic winters it pulled sleds, and the time of the
short summer, he was transformed into dog of bât being able to
concern the back until its own weight.
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The husky, companion of the peoples Inuit, remains one of the
mysteries of the Arctic. Already more than 22 years than I raise my
magnificent huskies, in the thick fur, in the tail in panache, in
the oblique eyes, in the piercing and intriguing glance, I realize
that the husky belongs to a strange world which few people can
pride to know, and, even less to understand. After 22 years of
breeding and life of municipality with them, I can allow to say: "
One knows, one understands ".
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Paok
- Inuit dog of my
bredding
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The world where he lived, the Arctic, was for a long time
considered as intolerable.
The taiga, the immense boreal forest in the secular trees, the
tundra unlimited desert, represent a third of the
surface of the appeared lands. They are lined by the northerly
coasts of the Eurasian and American continents, forming a ring
broken by the Bering Strait on the West and the sea of Greenland in
the East, limiting the immense sea Arctic in the center of which
thrones the North Pole.
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This sea, wrongly called Icy ocean Arctic, is a méditerranée
hardly six times as big as that of the South of France. She(it) is
covered with a permanent ice field, in perpetual movement. It is the
realm of the seals, the walruses and the polar bear.
It is an inhuman country, outside any human scale. Except
put the coasts of Norway and those of western south Greenland where
the influence of Gulf Stream is smelt, the temperatures vary between
1 ° and - 45 ° C about.
In Siberia and on the icecap of Greenland, temperatures of 50 ° C
are frequent. Ices crack, whistle, whisper, speak and
mutter. Violent winds succeed one another there. They give birth to
the blizzard, the hurricane of snow and crystals of ice lifted by the storm which one calls also " The
poudrerie ".
It is a strange, fantastic, fascinating world. The another planet,
another universe. And nevertheless, in this white hell, animals and
people live. Since millenniums they are there, in accordance
with this environment which appears to us against nature.
Huskies were, for a long time the companions of the risk of the
people
of the cold.
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