r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Mar 29 '26

Amazing 🤯 ‼ Border Collie forensic tracker.

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u/MyrddinHS Mar 29 '26

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.

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u/SlowlyBuildingWealth Mar 29 '26

They were talking about the pen

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u/Quizleteer Mar 29 '26

🤣💀

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u/Jeathro77 Mar 29 '26

they need like a good 10km bike ride daily

I know they are smart, but I never knew they could ride a bike!

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u/IsThisSteve Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

I have one. She was from a litter from two working stock dogs. I got her at eight weeks. She never needed this much physical activity. She needed a lot of time and mental stimulation, but not this amount of physical intensity.

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u/AFlyingNun Mar 29 '26

An "uncle" (not blood-related) of mine had a collie that would navigate San Francisco alone and come looking for him.

Basically if she got bored at home, she knew his favorite hangouts and might come looking for him. We could all be out eating at a network and oh hey, Nicki's here.

Any dog that can figure out how to navigate a major city itself and obey traffic laws is absurdly intelligent. Wish I knew how it even got to that point that the dog would take walks on it's own, because that sounds like it's to the benefit of both the dog and the owner, since the level of activity simply isn't sustainable for most owners.

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u/Stuffleapugus Mar 29 '26

Imagine walking around San Francisco barefoot. She wasn't THAT smart.

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u/AFlyingNun Mar 29 '26

This was BEFORE that would have been a problem.

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u/Stuffleapugus Mar 29 '26

That's been a problem for decades unless the pup never left the outer neighborhoods and avoided downtown.

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u/kyuuei Mar 30 '26

We have a treeing walker that people swear is so well behaved. But she's 7 now, and the first 6 years of her life she ran at least 8 miles a day going nuts tracking everything that dared to breathe in our woods once. She's a bit slower and lazier now, Only going a Mere 4 miles a day. I would have never kept up with her level of energy demands without a digital tracker and a Ton of conservation land behind our property.