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?
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
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!
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.
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…
Wolves are the most prolific persistence hunters. It’s like thier whole thing
