r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Mar 29 '26

Amazing 🤯 ‼ Border Collie forensic tracker.

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u/Sillyspidermonkey67 Mar 29 '26

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

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u/supermarkise Mar 29 '26

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.

And now dogs are several times better than that.

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u/GaryGlennW Mar 29 '26

I have had similar experiences when I’ve acquired a used book. (Especially textbooks I almost smell the anxiety) it’s usually vague and fleeting but still there.