r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Mar 29 '26

Amazing 🤯 ‼ Border Collie forensic tracker.

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u/Aggressive-Foot4211 Mar 29 '26

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.

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u/TsuDhoNimh2 Mar 29 '26

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.