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answer 2 I was in Antarctica in 1959, and our teams of huskies stayed out on the ice the year round.( Husky is not a breed, it is a job description - just like sheep dog.) About 40 - odd dogs in all. The coldest periods were down below -50 oC as I recall, and the dogs just rolled themselves into a ball and slept. These were Greenland huskies, somewhat larger than the Alaskan or Siberian. In retrospect this treatment was probably harsh, for in the south, the winter snows are only blown around fine powder snow, that does not build up drifts. In northern climes, a little moister, the snow can more easily build drifts around the dog.

They had magnificent teeth. They got a chunk of seal meat every 2nd day, about 2kg perhaps. It was deep frozen of course and had the texture of a chunk of hardwood. nevertheless, they gnawed their way through it. They were spanned out in such a way that they could not attack each other or eat each other's food.

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