r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • 3h ago

This little girl has a dog-drawn cart.

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u/Ftroiska 3h ago

No steering no brakes : 100% trust ! Atta dog :)

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u/foxontherox 2h ago

I mean, if you think about it, horses are the original self driving cars.

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u/Aspen9999 2h ago

Actually dogs pulled carts all around the world. Your all around farm dogs hauled food/goods into villages to sell and trade. Your average subsistence farmer around the world could never afford large livestock. Newfies used to pull carts to bring fish to markets, German Shepards pulled vegetables/goods into markets.

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u/foxontherox 2h ago

I’ve heard, for their size/weight, that dogs are better draught animals than horses.

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u/Aspen9999 2h ago

That’s interesting, I just thought it was more utilizing the animal they had for multi purposes. But what you said makes perfect sense.

But now that’s probably going to send me down a rabbit hole reading about cart dog lol.

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u/ImmodestPolitician 1h ago

"for their size/weight, that dogs are better draught animals than horses"

If you have access to meat and starches.

Horse food is much more abundant.

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u/foxontherox 1h ago

Not in the arctic!

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u/Mammoth-Shopping-690 2h ago

Os cavalos são motocicletas movidas a grama.

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u/cop_pls 1h ago

There's many rural stories of cowboys stumbling out of the bar drunk, getting on their horse, pointing it home, and blacking out in the saddle. They'd wake up outside their home. The horse figured out the rest of the way back.

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u/applespicebetter 1h ago

So I'm showing my age a bit here. My great grand father used to take the mule drawing a buck wagon down a few miles to the inn on occasion, which doubled as a bar and restaurant, and drink himself silly. Not every day, but often enough. When he was done he would climb back in and just let the mule take him home. My grandfather would get him inside, take care of the mule.

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u/Expensive-Border-869 2h ago

Well sorta but in reality you do actually have e to control the horses. They can just kinda go but unless you take one path all the time they dont really know where you wanna go. They'll try to keep themselves safe which usually keeps your cart safe but not always. They may not consider the consequences of gravity i mean horses are smart but there's a limit on how well they can handle planning what a cart will do on a given road or scenario

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u/watercouch 1h ago

There’s evidence of dogsled (mushing) going back to 7000BC. Horses were domesticated much later around 3000BC but weren’t pulling carts or chariots until about 2000BC. Draft animals like oxen came around 3500BC with the wheel.

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u/tom8osauce 1h ago

There are indigenous North Americans that would use dogs to pull sleds. I know we often think of Inuit, but even the people who lived in the plains would use drag sleds.

When the Europeans introduced modern horses, some of the languages would call them “big dogs”.

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u/AnArdentAtavism 2h ago

They're using vocal commands (I hope). My guess would be that a parent is behind the camera providing instruction, amd that both child and dog are learning. The dog is learning what commands mean, and the child is learning how to control the dog with voice only.

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u/TheLordB 1h ago

This is a routine, the girl goes the same way every day. The training has already been done.

Many dogs would be able to do this with a single command or even no command after being trained to pull the cart and being shown the path a few times.

I would probably train stop and slow just to be safe, but if the dog is well trained that is probably not necessary.