This is what the kids did up on the Bering Coast. I never owned a machine up there so I did not participate! I never critized what the kids did because it was their culture and once you showed dissapproval of something that was a common practice, you have basically shot yourself in the foot.
Where I was and I am not speaking of all of rural AK, animals were treated the same as rocks. They had no feelings, no emotions, no souls and if they frooze to death, died of starvation it just did not matter. It is a curtural thing and my Labrador did his best to break that mold. He was the first pure breed dog that was ever seen in one village and the kids would line up 10 deep so that he could retrieve for them. They were just amazed that a dog would sit, stay, fetch and had feelings.
This is not the first time that I have made a post and someone did not quite understand. Unless you experience these things it is often hard to explain.
