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Didn't want to muck up Chris's excellent thread.



  • Atticus once pestered and pestered, smelling deeply and nudging with tremendous concern, the back of my leg. For hours. There was nothing on my pants that I could tell---totally weird. Until later I realized I had a bruise there. So Attiucs can smell bruises, and knows they should be noticed and perhaps attended to.
  • Raven can smell any kind of impending chaos, long before any human can see or sense it; it makes her positively insane. She can also find hidden iceberg lettuce, in any quantity. Don't ask me how I know.
  • My old Lab could smell what I was thinking.


Amazing or weird things you think your dogs can smell?
 
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My dog has an amazing ability to find dragback. :-?

JS
 
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My old dog ,which sleeps with my son every night , she can "sense" when its time for him to come home from school .She will head to the front door like clock work and sit patiently just a couple minitues before he comes walking up the road.
 
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Shawn White said:
My old dog ,which sleeps with my son every night , she can "sense" when its time for him to come home from school .She will head to the front door like clock work and sit patiently just a couple minitues before he comes walking up the road.
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Nonething special ...Dogs learn the routine of people in their environment...They can distinguish between sounds of car or trucks from inside the house too...we should be as observant of things around us ( dogs behavior) as they are of the world ....Steve S
 
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Shawn White said:
My old dog ,which sleeps with my son every night , she can "sense" when its time for him to come home from school .She will head to the front door like clock work and sit patiently just a couple minitues before he comes walking up the road.
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Ducks can tell time to. Hunt at a WMA where the cut off time is 1pm and watch those suckers land at your feet at 1:05!
 
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steve schreiner said:
They can distinguish between sounds of car or trucks from inside the house too
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Not to derail the thread, but I agree with Steve's quote above...when I was a kid my dog (mutt) could tell when my dad was home before he ever pulled in the driveway. My dad was self employed and worked long hours so I know it was not a case of him knowing dad's routine because he had no normal time of arriving at home. I concluded that dad's 450SL had a distinctive sounding engine (to my dog) that he could tell from every other car that came down our street. When dad would turn the corner onto our street, 2 houses down from our house, Smokey would get up and go to the door to greet him. I've never heard anyone else reference this ability to hear the difference in vehicles before and none of my dogs since have displayed such behavior.
 
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HuntinDawg said:
Not to derail the thread, but I agree with Steve's quote above...when I was a kid my dog (mutt) could tell when my dad was home before he ever pulled in the driveway. My dad was self employed and worked long hours so I know it was not a case of him knowing dad's routine because he had no normal time of arriving at home. I concluded that dad's 450SL had a distinctive sounding engine (to my dog) that he could tell from every other car that came down our street. When dad would turn the corner onto our street, 2 houses down from our house, Smokey would get up and go to the door to greet him. I've never heard anyone else reference this ability to hear the difference in vehicles before and none of my dogs since have displayed such behavior.
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A kennel I help out at occasionally has a number of house dogs that start to go a bit nutty with anticipation about 10 minutes before their Mama gets home; 10 minutes is the time it takes to turn off the main road and wind the couple miles up the gravel hills. I have no doubt they can hear it.
 
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My story is a little more base level but each Monday I take Tully to the local park (dogs off leash-yeah) to do drill/pattern work. He always dissappears into the woods and comes up with the yellowish-green softballs. Once last summer he found 17 in one morning! I just left them in a pile for the next group. The season is yound because he only found 2 on Monday.
 
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Beverly Burns said:
My story is a little more base level but each Monday I take Tully to the local park (dogs off leash-yeah) to do drill/pattern work. He always dissappears into the woods and comes up with the yellowish-green softballs. Once last summer he found 17 in one morning! I just left them in a pile for the next group. The season is yound because he only found 2 on Monday.
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My old Lab, Strider, knew if there was a baseball in the woods from a thousand yards, I swear. He would bolt--just tear out--dive into the brush, and come up with the one he was after immediately. My dad said Strider could smell "round things," for all the various types and sizes of balls he would run away for hell-bent on his mission.

(I actually do think he could smell round things. I can't explain it, but I believe it!)
 
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Dunkin donuts coffee. My young dog can find a DD coffee cup anywhere, even in the middle of the woods where you would swear there are no trails. I think she has a caffeine habit.

Dawn
 
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Feet and ass.

My hounds come running from all over the house when ever either get exposed to air.

One mans tulip regards

Bubba
 
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I take my Lab to the cigar store. This brand or that brand, Honduran or Nicaragua? The nose knows. See signature line
 
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Losthwy said:
I take my Lab to the cigar store. This brand or that brand, Honduran or Nicaragua? The nose knows. See signature line
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Do you seriously let your dog choose your cigars?
 
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