It’s not really a joke in my part of the country in Canada. I’m Indigenous Canadian and my dad was born in the wilderness and followed a traditional lifestyle. He was a traditional hunter and trapper.
In the 1950s and 1960s he trapped a lot of beaver to sell the pelts and make a living. This was all before the animal fur market collapsed in the 70s. I wasn’t born at the time but I remember him telling me that they ate a lot of the beaver he trapped. He trapped so much that he had a surplus of beaver meat all the time. However, he also kept a team of sled dogs which he fed a steady diet of beaver boiled with oats to give them a very nutritious food. We have one or two surviving photos of his dogs and they were huge. They weren’t classic Malamutes or Huskies … they were just random mutts that looked like a cross between a German Shepherd and Husky … but they were huge powerful dogs.
There’s some dogs that absolutely require a weird diet. I forgot the breed I read about but they’re sled/hunting dogs a very cold climate (somewhere in Asia)? They are so adapted to that environment they WILL die if given “normal” dog food.
It’s recommended if you’re adopting a northern rescue that you feed them lower quality dog food, at least at first, because high quality is too rich for them.
https://www.ifaw.org/ca-en/projects/northern-dogs-project-canada
Seems like a similar breed to the one I read about. Where does it talk about food in here? I couldn’t find it
Is this your dad?
How do you register Alkaline as a trademark?
Probably in a similar way that Apple is a registered trademark for computers, but you wouldn’t be able to register it for fruit. Alkaline here may not even be an actual characteristic of the product, or assuming it is, it’s supposedly so distinctive that it sets the brand apart from others.
That said, it’s very unlikely that the trademark could be defended if a competitor challenged it, but maybe the goal is just to use the ® as a gimmick, to increase the perceived value by the customer, and if it became commonplace they’d just come up with some other marketing strategy…
If that’s the name they’re giving thier original recipe it’s a trademark.
Could they trademark “Acidic”? And then claim “Our Lemonade is the only Acidic® lemonade on the market!”
You gotta watch out for Imaginary Beaver.
I understand that beaver butts are used in many luxory products; even more so than whale barf!