• AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    Btw this would be physically impossible for it right? Even half marathons are something thay basically only a very few specific animals can do right?

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      Dogs are one of those specific animals. There’s a reason they got domesticated into dogs in the first place - because they’re the closest to be able to keep up with a hairless monkey at running after an injured animal.

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        6 days ago

        Yeah i see from the other comments as well. Now that you point it put its logical that humans would pick wolves/dogs, the only animals that could keep up.

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      Our 10lbs dog can come on 25km walks/hikes with us and wants to continue so a larger dog like that following humans at what isn’t running running speed for a dog that large? As long as water was available and temperature wasn’t too high, I would believe it…

      I just did a web search and people do it with their dog, even smaller breeds…

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      It is certainly on the upper end of what dogs can do without inflicting harm on their body, but a one off doesn’t have to be harmless.