A walk in the woods with 42 Saint Bernards

Over at Submitterator, anelson sends us this surreal video of a child playing with a huge pack of Saint Bernards in a temperate rainforest in British Columbia. I love the idea of being surrounded by these panting, gallumphing beasts.

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goldenearth

it would be more interesting if it were 42 hungry pit bulls : )
- UrbanUndead
  
  It’s 42 CUJOS!
- sargsauce
  
  I fail to see what you mean. Are you insinuating 42 hungry pit bulls would be any worse than if it were 42 hungry versions of some other moderately large dog? Perhaps you missed the whole debacle about the McDonald’s radio ad and pit bulls.
GTMoogle

for(int i=0; i<42; ++i) spawn("Saint Bernard");

This seems more like a video game than reality to me. Especially the panting sounds.
- Guest
  
  mushroom mushroom!
jon_anon

Wait that’s a real video? — I thought it was a cyriak animation! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX3iLfcMDCw
- Lobster
  
  You can tell it isn’t because the dogs never start to mutate into hideous spider monsters, nor do they vomit up shapeless, chaotic masses of recognizable dog parts.
  
  …Man I love Cyriak.
http://blog.monstuff.com Julien Couvreur

The sounds gives me the chill. 40 drooping and heavily breathing beasts.
- http://9bytz.com/ 9bytz
  
  I’d love to have 42 of these fellows breathing when it’s 90 degrees in summer..
- Chuck
  
  Try listening to it with your eyes closed.
joeposts

THAT CHILD COULD HAVE BEEN EATENED!

/concerntroll
- RedShirt77
  
  Nah, Appropriate concerns are as follows
  
  1. Losing one when it wanders off to find a lost hiker or something
  2. The number of hours involved in checking them all for ticks.
  3. Planet of the apes(only with dogs)
  4. Back at the farm there is a wagon that needs to be pulled and there is no one to pull it
  - allium
    
    5. Dryads.
  - Guest
    
    6. refilling of neck casks requires industrial volumes of brandy
    
    http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_201402/Sir-Edwin-Henry-Landseer/Alpine-Mastiffs-Reanimating-a-Distressed-Traveller
http://ae4rv.com/ royaltrux

Squirrel!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=607714740 Orlando Mark Shorter

42 Giant turds waiting for some poor sod to step into…
Jack_Spellman

Didn’t see a single pooch peeing, makes me wonder if they’re CGI.

But thanks, Dean — this makes up for the creepy clown paintings.
surreality

I could’ve easily watched another two minutes of that. Can you tell I’m a dog lover?
- Guest
  
  I feel like a 4 year old
Palomino

There’s got to be at least one Cujo in the bunch.

I think they should glue moss, leaves and tree-bark on her, and just film.
http://maggiekb.com/ Maggie Koerth-Baker

Can you imagine the sheer amount of drool that child is covered in?
- Ipo
  
  I understand they sell it on Amazon in a 55 gallon drum.
autark

it’s a glitch in the matrix
- dculberson
  
  I came to post that exact comment. I guess nerds are predictable.
Kenmrph

Wow, I had that *exact* dream last night.
Paul Bowen

Having spent a lot of time around dogs, and groups of dogs, but having no experience of Bernies, the thing that struck me here is the dogs’ apparently total lack of interest in one another. Every dog behaves as if it’s the only dog there. I mean, just for the sake of form, is no one even going to sniff a bumhole, chew an ear?
HahTse

What does a single person do with 42 Saint Bernards AND a child?
http://www.mrericsir.com MrEricSir

I kept expecting a bunch of Storm Troopers to pop out and get their asses kicked by the dogs.
EH

Malkovich malkovich.
semiotix

Who’s a good boy?! Is it you? Or is it you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you, or you?
- joeposts
  
  I hope I’m not the only one who counted your “you’s” to make sure there were the correct amount before clicking the “Like” button.
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness
    
    You probably are. But since you counted them for us, no one else will.
    - joeposts
      
      I guess I blew it there.
  - RedShirt77
    
    My first concern when watching this video was the idea that when you got home, how do you know they are all there, and if one is missing, which one. The answer is clearly OCD
i_prefer_yeti

How is that child not bedecked in shining golden armor sitting astride one of those beasts rallying the other 41 for a charge at the crazy cat-lady’s barn? Needs to happen.
- Godfree
  
  Giddy-up, Ambrosius!
- http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios
  
  Your newsletter, sign me up.
  
  What’s the backstory on this video?
eldritch

If two leashless lapdogs in a park can get a man tasered, this must qualify for a tactical nuclear strike!

Snarkiness aside, though, I’ve always wanted to see an urban setting full of just dozens of dogs. Like a local plaza or park that has a resident kennel of dogs who get free reign and are highly trained to be gentle and friendly and do tricks and whatnot.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness
  
  If it’s in a shopping mall it would be like this:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0QBxwRhAmA
Mister44

“Nyaaaaaaaahh *tsktsktsk* what’s up, doc?”
mongo

Just shows how truly gentle St. Bernards are. No pack rank working out visible.

I wonder how many brothers, sisters and cousins these are.

Imagine feeding time. They must feed from a semi-trailer.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Just shows how truly gentle St. Bernards are. No pack rank working out visible.
  
  Maybe we just haven’t seen the queen yet.
SomeGuyNamedMark

They need 42 little brandy barrels around their necks.
- UrbanUndead
  
  IKR? They look nekkid!
lesbianjesus

A Husky, properly cared for, cost an average of $1000 a year to look after.

Someone is rich or negligent.
- Brewer_ME
  
  Follow the link from YouTube. The owners breed this champion line… I’m sure each puppy sells for a couple grand.
http://twitter.com/DreAmeoba Gordon Klock

What a wonderful moment in time for that kid!
Brewer_ME

That’s what I would call I nitrogen sink.
Kenmrph

Such beautiful animals! Still, I’m holding out for the genetically modified drool-free version.
chgoliz

I cannot imagine a more idyllic childhood.
http://twitter.com/Selkiechick Selkiechick

Did the little kid get chicken soup when he came home from the Mild Rumpus?
fink

Free range and grass fed.
BarBarSeven

42 Saint Bernards and not one of them brought a barrel of XXX brand whiskey? FUCK EM!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Molyneux/678081564 Richard Molyneux

How great. These people are breeders :)
- BarBarSeven
  
  Yes, they have a child.
Culturedropout

It’s all good fun until someone drowns in a puddle of drool…
tomrigid

Which way did he go?
Seb

My first thought was:

“Dad! There’s an infinite number of St Bernards outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they’ve worked out”

Then it occurred to me that perhaps 42 St Bernards romping happily in the woods is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything!
- parhelion
  
  Would that make the soundtrack of canine heavy breathing an equivalent of cosmic background radiation?
- Guest
  
  I’m not sure what the math works out to, but we should factor in that St. Bernards are infinitely more pleasant than monkeys.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KLDXI7FI3NUHYC23SUHMGLNBCQ Tom

Y’know how a bunch of fish is called a school of fish, and a bunch of crows is called a murder of crows, or a pod of dolpins?

I nominate the term “gallumph of Saint Bernards”.
- Guest
  
  a pantry of St. Bernards?
Ipo

Kid says: “Sitz!”
None of the dogs sit.
Maybe they prefer French or Italian.
Atvaark

Basic cryptography. To read the video, replace kids with dogs and dogs with sheep.
Atvaark

Free-range dogs taste better.