Thats right, because Togo did it. Balto was just given all the credit becuse he did the final leg.
Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida.
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the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Well you’re right. Balto didn’t do it.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Fuckin stolen valor asshole dog
ceenote@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
He was a good boy, don’t blame him for what people did.
if_only@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Fuck that. Balto’s owner was the asshole. Balto himself and his team spent years malnourished and chained to a sled in a freak show wondering what they did wrong, and when they were finally “rescued” they wound up in a zoo. Well fed, but in cages while people gawked at them. Balto watched the rest of his team die one by one until he himself died blind and paralyzed.
Togo spent the rest of his life with his family. Neither dog knew they were famous or why, but Togo knew he was loved.
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
I don’t quite remember the story, but I don’t think Balto had much of a say in his portrayal
Nangijala@feddit.dk 8 hours ago
I think Togo won in the end, because Balto and his sled team basically became freak show animals and later live museum exhibits, chained and starving, like they weren’t living creatures at all. They were later rescued and ended their days as zoo animals. After Balto died he was stuffed and put in a museum.
Meanwhile Togo and his team went on tours, were given gold medals, continuing their lives as sled dogs and Togo got to retire in a nice kennel where he was bred and lived well until he was euthanized at the age of 16 due to health complications.
Don’t feel bad for Togo. He may have been largely forgotten to history, but he sure as shit won the life lottery compared to Balto.
parody@lemmings.world 8 hours ago
lol
untorquer@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Neither did Balatro
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
You joker
untorquer@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
remember to spade and neuter your pets. o7
syreus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The sled dog team led by Balto didn’t deliver vaccines. The vaccine for Diphtheria didn’t exist in 1925.
They delivered diphtheria antitoxin serum which was the only treatment at the time.
The image has a good sentiment though. The Florida change is just more undermining of public schools to push private charter school enrollment. These bozos in our government voted in vouchers to directly subsidize the businesses they themselves are invested in.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
It did exist. It was developed in 1923.
knight_alva@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Been a while. Was it a vaccine? I thought it was penicillin he was hauling.
knight_alva@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Looked it up. We are both wrong. Apparently it was a specific antitoxin serum for diphtheria. Still not a vaccine but also not penicillin.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Makes sense. Unfortunately diptheria will be swelling soon
BanMe@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Antitoxin serum!? You gonna tell me what I should put in my kids bodies? Hell no! That’s communisocialism
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
They don’t have sled dogs in Florida.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
soon they won’t have kids either
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Probably for the best… No child should have to live in Florida.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Feel bad joking about it but it sounds like a cutting cost program. Moving from No kids left behind to just no kids left
Rusty@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Do they use sled alligators?
yeather@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
No, alligators are lazy, ambush predators that stalk and move slowly. Crocodiles are more versatile, faster, and have more stamina for sledding.
WilloftheWest@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
I’m not sure this is the case, but I like to imagine that the statue is polished from people petting it.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
It was actually several different sled dogs that made the trip and Togo did the longest and most difficult part. There’s a movie about Togo on Disney+
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Listen, smart arse, ive never been deathly ill in all my life, so what was the point of getting all these vaccines?
Checkmate, big-pharma bootlickers.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Pshhh. What do you mean? What u don’t personally experience as being real isn’t real.
Duh…
rabber@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Alberta
cinnabarfaun@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Folks have already pointed out the whole “multiple teams of sled dogs” thing.
The dogs also weren’t delivering vaccine. They were delivering diphtheria antitoxin, which is a treatment for diphtheria, not an inoculation. The kids were already sick.
There was technically a vaccine for diphtheria then (it was invented in 1923, two years before this epidemic), but it wouldn’t have saved anyone who’d already caught the infection.