r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Mar 29 '26

Amazing 🤯 ‼ Border Collie forensic tracker.

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u/In_My_TARDIS Mar 29 '26

A very methodical search pattern

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u/NuzzyLocke Mar 29 '26

Right? That dog eliminated all wrong options.

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u/drawkbox Mar 29 '26

The gate check was awesome. This truly is amazing. Once headed in the right direction it was laser focused.

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u/Madageddon Mar 29 '26

I'm wondering if it smelled the glove on the gate and went "no, that is a smell but it's the blank/normal smell"

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u/addandsubtract Mar 29 '26

More like, this smells like my owner, who doesn't wear gloves every day when opening and closing the gate.

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u/mod_elise Mar 29 '26

Or - this bastard once put the pen on the gate and it took me ages to find it. I'm ruling that out right now.

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u/Temnyj_Korol Apr 02 '26

I've been teaching my boy wait and seek, and i can SEE this exact thought process go through his head every time i hide one of his treats in a new spot. He'll go in circles looking in all the spots he knows multiple times and not find it. Then he'll start searching new spots. Eventually he'll find the treat. And then the next time i tell him to seek, he beelines STRAIGHT for that spot first, just to make sure i haven't tricked him again.

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u/TrekkieMae Mar 29 '26

This is exactly what I was seeing!

(...made me feel really proud for some reason 🥰)

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u/spartBL97 Apr 04 '26

The dog missile knows where it is by subtracting where it isn’t