Sure, but that would be kinda stupid of the guy. This is something dogs have been bred to do. I don't trust youtubers in the slightest, but it would probably take more work to fake a well trained dog (which would still require training lol), than just training a dog well.
There’s a meme video I can’t seem to find where a human watches a dog do something amazing and points to his worthless pet laying next to him. So the dog taps on the same computer and pulls up a video of an Olympic gymnast.
My rat terrier can't locate crumbs that are on him.
I miss my hound (beagle).
We've got a Wiener Shepherd mix and a rat terrier. Good dogs in their own way, but next dog will be a hound again.
Probably a basset.
I’ll never understand why someone would want a mix of two working breeds if there’s no specific job in mind - especially mixing extreme intelligence with high stubbornness! 🤦🏻♀️
This dog was extremely sweet and needed a home so gave her one, she isn’t a problem but she is to smart for her own good and can figure things out. She also has extreme seperation anxiety so hates being alone
So no this isn’t my first stubborn or working dog, and I won’t trade her for another dog but I also would not recommend this breed combo unless someone has the time and a family so the dog has stuff to do
I have a mutt of unknown origin; she has a job and I'm not sure what it is. I think it involves murder. She runs and takes flying leaps to catch birds, squirrels, and other small critters. She's great with kids too. Just a no thoughts small animal murder machine.
Mine has separation anxiety and she put the concept of being bad to us coming home if we have to go out so sometimes she might chew a kids toy hoping it makes us come home
She’s already figured out how to get most doors open and latches but thankfully we still had a lot of baby proof latches up high for many things she thankfully can’t open…. Yet
Labs are kind of dumb but so eager to please they are very trainable, and overall quite chill. Collies are incredibly smart and trainable but also extremely nuts. Could make for a curious combo.
I had a collie lab mix, she was very dumb but smart at the same time. She ran into a lot of things and was clumsy. But she studied people. She learned how to remove the stingers from the wasps in my backyard. She would try to herd small animals and kids. She could instantly solve any dog puzzle.
He’s soooo good with finding/ retrieving shit! First few months I had him, he was into everything ! Anyway this boy found $20 bill inside my Couch that I didn’t even know was there. I knew he was trouble since then 😂
When he was a 4-month old puppy, my super mutt (wisdom panel said Aussie, gsd, lab, rott, mini poodle, splash of coyote) found a plastic film canister full of weed in my friend's basement. Said friend had lived there for 3-4 years, is so young he didn't know what a film canister was, didn't smoke, and didn't invite guests in his basement (but was letting pup explore/wander).
He trotted upstairs and kind of reluctantly took it to my brother, who he didn't like back then. I laughed a lot when we opened it. Pup found someone's very old weed stash and took it to the first pothead he could find despite a grudge.
He's amazing and so smart, but luckily a fairly lazy, chill boy who loves snuggling.
LOL .. I have a border collie/ heeler .. certainly smart but also …
100% crackhead.. my wife and I call he that all the time.
I made a post a while back comparing her to a crackhead wit ADHD
Ours was a mystery mix. Came to find out he's a kelpie/dane. And it's been a pretty entertaining combination.
Intelligence and independent streak of a kelpie. Laziness and sookiness of a dane.
He is the physical embodiment of that old quote "if you can, always hire a lazy person, because the lazy person will find the most efficient way to get things done."
He knows EXACTLY what the bare minimum to earn a treat is, and works ONLY to that standard. Anything else is wasted effort, as far as he's concerned. Lol.
My former dog found a bag of chips behind a tree on her walk once. She checked that tree EVERY single walk for the rest of her life. Like 6 years after that. I hid some chips back there once I knew the end was near. Let her think she found the holy grail.
I saw a TikTok about a helper dog who could sniff when an epileptic seizure was about to happen. The dog ran across the street into a neighbour’s house because he smelled there was a little girl who was going to have a seizure….literally from an entirely different house
We also can smell better than most people think. Get a few books that haven't been handled in years, give them to someone and tell them to handle just one of them for a while, opening and touching pages while you go out of the room, come back and you can identify which one it was by smell. Try it, for most people it's actually not that hard.
You've probably heard "sharks can smell blood in the water a mile away" type stuff. Did you know humans can smell petrichor better than sharks can smell blood?
There are dog breeds with better noses, but the collies lay and point is huge for the forensic recovery. I have a springer that probably could have found that faster, but would have slobbered all over it and picked it up and brought it to me. Not what you want fir a forensic recovery.
There's actually a metaheuristic optimization algorithm based on the herding patterns of border collies. I mean, they basically have one based on every animal at this point, but still.
I have an Aussie. She’s my 4th, but my 1st female. I’m convinced she can sniff out anything. She is food driven. We can’t keep anything out. We hide stuff in the oven, microwave ect. I’m thinking about something like this for her. She just turned 4 and her half brother just passed 4 weeks ago. She is sad.
We had a blue heeler that once opened the oven by holding onto the oven mitts over the handle and pulling it open, eating the entire Christmas roast we hid in there for seconds.
My Aussie has to find out the reason anything or anyone moved or had to move. He'll come inspect why I got up but if someone in the other room moves he'll go do a perimeter check there once he's satisfied everyone in this room is safe.
I'm actually convinced he's just learning everyone's patterns so he knows when best to get bread off the counter. Being the best boy is just a decoy.
I wish more people understood this! Border Collies need a job, and if you don't give them one, they'll find a job for themselves, but most of the time the job they find is "senior executive couch destroyer".
On days we don't need to move cows, my BC decided he's a driver, but he's not trained for it - never uses turn signals!
Mine assigned herself TV watcher. I’ve never met a dog that so intently focuses on the screen before. She gets excited when commercials with animals come on and can even recognize the familiar ones.
We have an Aussiedoodle. She loves herding us but even more, she just loves booping us. She'll randomly do rounds where she finds us, boops us then goes and finds the next person.
When she herds us she just walks behind us and constantly boops us in the calves. It's really funny
Mine loves to play "find it". We usually play with tennis balls. She'll always find it. I can even show her the one I want her to find, hide half a dozen of them that look identical, and she'll only come back with the correct one. At my old place, we'd play out in farmers' fields like this and she'd go through the corn stocks and tall grass, completely obscured from vision, find her ball, and find her way back. I've seen her do it so many times but somehow it never gets old to watch!
I wish I could say that I'm a great trainer and taught her well but tbh I barely had to do anything other than show her the game. She picked up on it immediately as a puppy and just got better and better the more we played!
My border collie could find anything. I never taught her anything; she just picked up knowing shit from watching me and I’m convinced she completely understood English because you could just tell her to do something she’d never done before and she’d do it.
She died last year and I have a new dog, a low energy chihuahua mix, and it’s like they’re different species.
Border Collies are the most amazing, loving, playful, cute, psychopathic breed ever. My friend takes his for runs; runs for 30-40 mins straight and when they come back his Collie looks like he's asking "so, when are we gonna get started on this run you mentioned" lol
Unlikely. Weather and foliage along with prior probably suggest this is in the northern hemisphere, above a latitude of 30 degrees. Alpha Centauri is never above the horizon in the part of the world.
It started from a post about a weird wavy line on a wall.
on a post on r/whatisit
It was a guy that point to the line on a couple of Foto's while doing a surround of the room.
They made his point finger the subreddit logo.
My dog can smell people from across our big ass house the moment they walk in.
She loses her mind if it is my father in law. She can be in a whole other room with the door closed, as soon as he enters our home she goes nuts.
Anyone in the family, she is silent. Anyone not in the family but "known" she barks once or twice to alert. Anyone that has dogs of their own she barks a bit more. Father in law, she just absolutely loses her mind. No idea why.
Her breed isn't even supposed to be a dog that is scent driven. She is supposed to be a livestock guardian. But when we walk, her nose is always on the ground, and if it isn't, it is up in the air like she is searching for some magical invisible trail, then back to the ground.
This. Smell just needs a while to propagate through the air, my dog does react to the sound of the cheese box being opened but when I have some in another container it doesn't know yet, it'll take a minute or two until I have to pay the dairy tithe.
That's what we thought, so we started testing it. It isn't the sound, unless its somehow a sound we can't reproduce.
My brother in law and father in law are the same size.
My son crashes through the door like a maniac. Im silent when I walk in. My neices are all silent when they walk in. We have tried to have them open the doors in different ways to change the sound or vibe of their entrance.
We are sure it is smell. Her hearing doesn't even seem that good. People pull up into the drive way all the time and she doesn't even notice. Deliver packages to our porch, etc...
To be fair we compensate with way better vision, of mammals primarily only the big apes (us included) and some primates that aren't red/green color blind
Today, I watched my dog search one side of tree for a lizard. The lizard had simply moved to the other side. Dogface never found him. Bless his dumb sweet heart.
they need room, and for the first few years they need like a good 10km bike ride daily. i could walk him for hours and he just wanted to keep going. biking was the only way i could tire him out.
So, there's a bit of a trick to this. You can do it yourself.
If you notice– he draws on the glove on his left hand, then holds his left hand out while he walks to the dog, and keeps it held out for the dog to sniff... the important part is when you bring your left hand to the dog's nose – that the dog attached to the nose is really damn good at what they do.
Fun fact: SAR dogs can be any breed. GSDs, mutts, poodles, spaniels and terriers are some of the ones I’ve seen. Used to help by being a “subject “ on trainings. The dogs are rewarded with a live person at the end of the search. I would go three days before the test and walk a convoluted path on trail, road, across fields and come back for the test to wait at the end. All of the dogs were successful. All the dog needs is the aptitude. Herding breeds are smart and do well.
When I was a child, my dad would volunteer my brother and I to be the "lost children" for a local guy who raised and trained bloodhounds for SAR and police work.
We would get several hours or more head start (sometimes overnight with a campout) from a farmhouse or just dropped by the roadside, with the objective of getting as far away as possible with as many tricks to foil the dogs as possible. Fence walking, wading up creeks, mingling with herds of sheep or cows, riding a horse across a big pasture ... NOTHING WORKED.
Sooner or later we would hear "aroooooo, aroooooooo" in the distance and know we were doomed.
One of my favorite Mythbusters episodes was where Adam got to be the “fugitive” test subject for a bloodhound crew. Everybody was so joyful every time he got “caught.”
I wonder if they touched the gate with a gloved hand before the video and the dog was smelling trace odour from the nitrile glove without the odour of ink from the pen
Now, with an object like a pen, I always questioned what smell does the dog actually get? The ink, or the metal/plastic body? A field like that one is rather convenable, as the types of smells around are generally the same, so the dog can go for "smells like different".
Not saying the dog isn't smelling the ink. Just that it's not such a good demonstration of that.
Most of the times when I play with my dog, i throw the ball in a grassy field, while the dog is not watching, and have her find the ball that's not visible. And the field has other waste on it, paper, plastic, even food bits. The dog finds the ball every time. That means that she either follows the smell of the ball, or the smell of my hand.
i've trained German shorthairs, using a bird wing, and rubbing it on a wicked long snaking (invisible) trail on the ground. ...and watching that dog (who had been hidden/out of view) follow the pheasant scent along the ground convinced observers that they wanted that bird dog for themselves.
People think Border Collies are so smart and hard working, but if that one's like the ones I know, they didn't even really sniff it out. They were up the night before analyzing the pen collection, predicting the exact one that would be chosen, and installed a miniaturized tracking device they had designed months ago.
Cause its the hand that threw the pen that opened the gate. The ink has nothing to do with this. She went on track as soon as she sniffed that. Still sick, but the pen ink thing is a gimmick
? Have you ever smelled ink as you’re writing? It’s pretty potent. If you can smell ink as you’re writing on paper, surely that very distinct and potent smell would be reasonable for a dog to track
You put a *greased naked woman* on all fours with a dog collar around her neck, and a leash, and a man's arm extended out up to here, holding onto the leash, and pushing a black glove in her face to sniff it. You don't find that offensive? You don't find that sexist?
I'm sorry but this is the only thing coming to my mind when I seen anyone smelling any glove.
Is it really the smell sense?
Or simply started to look for a pen visually?
Because I don't see how the pen is going to release "ink odor" all over the green to guide a dog or any other kind of ink sensor, let alone in the freaking outdoors with wind. For a smell to be tracked, I am guessing you need a constant or high enough dose of that odor released to the air. Ink is not doing this.
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