As impressive as this is, it can go the other way too. Knoxville TN had a drug dog who, it turned out, was actually worse than flipping a coin when determining whether a vehicle should be searched. And as a direct result of that finding, a couple with 600 lbs of weed in their RV got their conviction overturned due to the search being inadmissible. They didn't get their drugs back though.
The fact that they can smell it is amazing, but what is more amazing is that they can REMEMBER that one smell, while sniffing millions of other smells. What is their daily life like with all these different smells running through their brains?
freakin' amazing. just out of curiosity, at any point, was he retracing your steps? I mean, were you walking around out there, or by any chance lean on that gate?
To be fair, even with gloves there are some particles most likely on that pen from the human. Especially since it was probably handled without gloves at some point. That helps the dog. I do some search with my dog, she isn't at that level but it's so fun to see them search an area and sniff their way to an item. Good dogs!
My guess would be that at some point the hidden object was placed on a gate, fence post or something similar to teach the dog to search in vertical as well as horizontal. It's something that most dogs need to learn. I've seen young bird dogs circling a tree, going "where fuck are they?", when the birds were craning their necks from the branches to get a better view of the show. Older, more experienced dogs are often wise to these tricks and will tell you, "the dinner is watching you from above".
Bad (but yes, good, bc yes all dogs are good dogs, bront) dog! Bc this lil "used-for-the-dark-side" pupper is going to find pot I *HAVEN'T EVEN BOUGHT YET* and take me down with the illicit ink pen ring! xD
When I was a sophomore my cousin gave me the cat he used in high school. He was sort of a troubled child but grew up to be a professional, married, father and bought a more reasonable vehicle. Get forward to junior year and the drugo doggos finding around 10 roaches and countless seeds. Got suspended for 1 day.
The Animorphs books are a YA series about 6 kids that get the abilities to morph into animals to fight back against a covert alien invasion. The author KA Applegate did a PHENOMENAL job researching what the world would like, smell, sound, feel like in different animals
Yea just amazing. Like the use of water search dogs (sniffing from a small boat) helped find body parts of murder victim Kim Wall, doggos sniffed up scent traces in the water as far away as 800 meters.
It would also have to be on the top of a *very* tall signpost, as 38 miles is far enough away to be hidden behind the curve of the earth* Better hope for a clear day, too.
*assuming your eyes are ~5'4" off the ground the signpost would have to be ~825' high to be visible over the horizon.
This Guy Maths! <3 I just presumed you could look up at it, but (after more mafs) that's only 200,000 feet - too high to be on a plane, too low to be on a satellite. But you're on the money - plenty of radio towers around the world that are substantially taller than that. You could stick it on a variety of "urban mountains" like Rainier/Hood/Pikes Peak and see it from nearby city. 50 miles you could read the 20/25 line. 75 miles, 20/40 line. You could still read The Big E on the ISS
Actually, test this out yourself. Take a ballpoint pen and rub it somewhere so it leaves a lot of ink behind. A rubber surface is ideal, as the ink doesn't sink into it, but paper works as well. Then smell the ink. The smell isn't strong, but it's clearly noticeable by human nose as well. Not enough to find a pen on the field by smell, but it's surprisingly distinctive.
Right, but the amount on the ball of the pen is miniscule. The dog searching as large of an area as it did means that some trace scattered that wide, even if it was only enough for the dog to confirm "not this way"
A dog’s nose is also a dual-path fluid machine. While the lungs breathe in and out, a bony shelf traps ~12% of every sniff for constant scenting.
When exhaling, air jets out the side slits, creating a low-pressure Bernoulli vacuum that sucks new scent molecules toward the nostrils. This means they actually "inhale" smell while they’re breathing out. It’s a 3D-scented, continuous-loop intake system that never pauses.
Had a dog that you made a snow ball and threw it in a field, no matter how far it went, where it went or how deep it punched through the top layer of snow he'd always find that very specific lump of snow. Always.
I helped in a training for a search and rescue k9 unit. I had a small cloth, swabbed my neck a little, then they told me to go hide in a building. Silly me thought going around the building a bit then out the back and sitting down on some grass would be enough. (Still within bounds of course.)
It's been years, I don't remember the time it took, but it was a very fast hide and seek.
I saw a documentary years ago. They said that a dogs sense of smell was so acute. That if we could taste as well as they smell. It would be like us being able to taste a teaspoon of sugar mixed into an Olympic sized swimming pool. I still can't imagine what life with a nose like that would be like.
you know how most people can filter out noises generally pretty well when attempting to focus on another individual's voice? Prolly a bit like that, altho poor autistic dog that CANT do that.
they say to hang your food anywhere because it keeps scavengers (not just bears) from getting into it when they smell it. has nothing to do with them being able to smell better.
My bad with the wording, I didn't mean for it to sound like they can't smell it as well if it's hanging, just that they'll come from miles away for the smallest morsel and ransack your tent for it
They actually have a special organ in their sniffer that bypasses the part of the brain that evokes disgust. That's why they never revulse at nasty smells.
smelling poop is beneficial for them. gives them information so they have no reason to be disgusted by it as we would. dogs do have things they dont like to smell. my dog hates hops. as soon as he smells a beer he will back away quickly and start sneezing. he will not come back around for a bit and will stay away if he see they beer still.
kershaw
Is that man a space marine? Those steps, clompclompclomp. Dude must be an absolute unit.
approvalguy
Such sensitive noses, and still my dog will literally touch another dog’s booty hole with her nose to have a whiff.
LeifHietala
As impressive as this is, it can go the other way too. Knoxville TN had a drug dog who, it turned out, was actually worse than flipping a coin when determining whether a vehicle should be searched. And as a direct result of that finding, a couple with 600 lbs of weed in their RV got their conviction overturned due to the search being inadmissible. They didn't get their drugs back though.
pacanukeha
that'll do, pig
KingofRogues
idk..it seems less like he smelled it and more like he ran around until he saw it.
Gantzz321
The fact that they can smell it is amazing, but what is more amazing is that they can REMEMBER that one smell, while sniffing millions of other smells. What is their daily life like with all these different smells running through their brains?
SedatedSl0th
Fucking good dog, bront.
n3ckr0mantic
Border Collies are badass
januarylover
* comes back with 11 sheep
LawFiveGuy
freakin' amazing. just out of curiosity, at any point, was he retracing your steps? I mean, were you walking around out there, or by any chance lean on that gate?
todaytomorrowwillbeyesterday
The nose knows
ROBOTvsMAN
Glove smell easier to locate. Use cotton glove on throwing hand. Love the keys in the water vid though!
Daemencer
To be fair, even with gloves there are some particles most likely on that pen from the human. Especially since it was probably handled without gloves at some point. That helps the dog. I do some search with my dog, she isn't at that level but it's so fun to see them search an area and sniff their way to an item. Good dogs!
Magnar1183
When they went back to the road in front of the gate, I couldn't help calling the dog a "dumbass" despite knowing they were going to succeed.
RibbleTPibits
My dog can’t smell the shredded cheese I just dropped.
zer0vector
He probably smelled the guy more than he smelled the ink
zer0vector
But still impressive, no doubt about that
NozzleBozzle
Border collies are simply the ultimate dog
duktayp
No F ing way he's gon find that... IN YOR FACE, MONKE
chewybrian
decarnatedame
They're too busy singing to put anybody down.
pandajack
Surely there dog was smelling the latex not the ink. Still impressive.
navyjeff
Nitrile gloves contain no latex, and fresh ink has a much stronger smell than nitrile gloves. Try it yourself.
Chair5768
Tried it, lost my pen.
Cookie0fPower
Incredible
Allusernamesaretakensoichoosethis
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1eHAxd2w1ajdhMGpvdGd4ZTU3dmZmOXk3aDBobXZ3cmUxYTVvMTgxOCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3otPoUjeyRisIDxPhK/200w.webp
kimwimgoddess
Fetch is never going to happen
dumberthanyouraveragebear
My shin basically does the same thing to my bed frame in the middle of the night
3nd3rwiggin
I bet the guy touched the gate with the glove so the dog smelled it on the gate as well.
BoredLyron
My guess would be that at some point the hidden object was placed on a gate, fence post or something similar to teach the dog to search in vertical as well as horizontal. It's something that most dogs need to learn. I've seen young bird dogs circling a tree, going "where fuck are they?", when the birds were craning their necks from the branches to get a better view of the show. Older, more experienced dogs are often wise to these tricks and will tell you, "the dinner is watching you from above".
barbarian818
And border collies aren't even the tops in that field. Breeds like Beagle and Basset Hound are far ahead.
JackieTreehornProductions
And I can't even plug in the power cable behind the cabinet even though I can feel it and know it's there.
valen00
clearly your problem is you weren't doing it by smell.
Clockworkdancerobot
Good dog.
hiyo365
Bad (but yes, good, bc yes all dogs are good dogs, bront) dog! Bc this lil "used-for-the-dark-side" pupper is going to find pot I *HAVEN'T EVEN BOUGHT YET* and take me down with the illicit ink pen ring! xD
RhymingEverything
It seems like he was locating both the smell of the glove (on the gate) and the pen and still figured it out
Level21Magikarp
They are all good dogs bront.
CapttainKillJoy
When I was a sophomore my cousin gave me the cat he used in high school. He was sort of a troubled child but grew up to be a professional, married, father and bought a more reasonable vehicle. Get forward to junior year and the drugo doggos finding around 10 roaches and countless seeds. Got suspended for 1 day.
Autittuderp
I'm gonna guess you meant car... 😁
CapttainKillJoy
Nope.
PandAnomoly
Listen to that motor purr....
MrGrundy
Naw, cat was holding, definitely. Shady-ass cats, man...lol
RexBry
No man, that cat turned his life AROUND. Professional, married, father, nice set of wheels. This cat was going places!
savagesong
Honestly sounds like normal orange cat stuff
kaijuuGold
working dogs are so bad ass
SuperSaiyanYamcha
Pfffft; big deal. I find pens I lost all the time.
It just takes me a few weeks to do it.
TrumpRapesAndEatsChildren0002
Yeah, not like those unemployed freeloaders...
MyGreatestFearBoner
Yeah, and mine is black too. Wont even fill out a job application.
kaijuuGold
non working dogs is good ass too they just take longer to respond after lots o naps
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
I love my unemployment freeloader, though, lol! 🐾❤️🐾
OmnesMundiLardum
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
That's a border collie, what did you expect? Surprised he didn't find a real body.
CyberHexx
Border collies are fucking workaholics. You have to keep them active or the go insane.
HonestCommentFarmer
The dog already found all the bodies in the field.
MrItchyPantsPimpleEye
Surprised he didn’t pick it up and do your taxes
WolfClickQueen
He keeps his collection very safe
usernamesarenotcomments
He did. But ignored it because it was just a distraction from his task.
IgnisInvictus
He wasn't looking for one.
Rihn
47 ppl didn't get the joke.
DirigibleOtter
*sniff sniff* "Yeah, there's like six keys of coke buried by this hedge, but the biped wants his pen back, so..."
IgnisInvictus
Pretty much.
TsubakiTragic
absolutely fucking ridiculous. I know dogs have extraordinary olfactory abilities, but every time I see a demo it blows my mind.
AgamemnonsMemes
I think they can smell things UNDER WATER
theSoulciologist
The Animorphs books are a YA series about 6 kids that get the abilities to morph into animals to fight back against a covert alien invasion. The author KA Applegate did a PHENOMENAL job researching what the world would like, smell, sound, feel like in different animals
t9dawg
Yea just amazing. Like the use of water search dogs (sniffing from a small boat) helped find body parts of murder victim Kim Wall, doggos sniffed up scent traces in the water as far away as 800 meters.
Blackfinity
IKR? Like dogs that can sense and alert to high- or low bloodsugar in a person with diabetes.
TomahawkJackson
I was curious, so I did some investigation, then some mathing with the maths.
If our eyes could see as well as a dog's nose can smell, we could read the 20/20 line on a normal eye chart at THIRTY-EIGHT MILES.
wowzie
DAMN
IrrelevantHandle
It would also have to be on the top of a *very* tall signpost, as 38 miles is far enough away to be hidden behind the curve of the earth* Better hope for a clear day, too.
*assuming your eyes are ~5'4" off the ground the signpost would have to be ~825' high to be visible over the horizon.
SavageDrums
That's what the round earthers want you to think!
TomahawkJackson
This Guy Maths! <3
I just presumed you could look up at it, but (after more mafs) that's only 200,000 feet - too high to be on a plane, too low to be on a satellite.
But you're on the money - plenty of radio towers around the world that are substantially taller than that.
You could stick it on a variety of "urban mountains" like Rainier/Hood/Pikes Peak and see it from nearby city. 50 miles you could read the 20/25 line. 75 miles, 20/40 line.
You could still read The Big E on the ISS
Nightcaste
It's kind of nuts that that little use of a pen leaves enough scent to be picked up
BoredLyron
Actually, test this out yourself. Take a ballpoint pen and rub it somewhere so it leaves a lot of ink behind. A rubber surface is ideal, as the ink doesn't sink into it, but paper works as well. Then smell the ink. The smell isn't strong, but it's clearly noticeable by human nose as well. Not enough to find a pen on the field by smell, but it's surprisingly distinctive.
Nightcaste
Right, but the amount on the ball of the pen is miniscule. The dog searching as large of an area as it did means that some trace scattered that wide, even if it was only enough for the dog to confirm "not this way"
honeybadgersRus
A dog’s nose is also a dual-path fluid machine. While the lungs breathe in and out, a bony shelf traps ~12% of every sniff for constant scenting.
When exhaling, air jets out the side slits, creating a low-pressure Bernoulli vacuum that sucks new scent molecules toward the nostrils. This means they actually "inhale" smell while they’re breathing out. It’s a 3D-scented, continuous-loop intake system that never pauses.
MachaGrey
It's the reason you hear him 'huffing' and 'chuffing', he is doing a nose reset to gather more scent.
honeybadgersRus
Yes, big ol chuff or body shake and it's onto the next smell to decode.
iChase79
Had a dog that you made a snow ball and threw it in a field, no matter how far it went, where it went or how deep it punched through the top layer of snow he'd always find that very specific lump of snow. Always.
1deejay
I helped in a training for a search and rescue k9 unit. I had a small cloth, swabbed my neck a little, then they told me to go hide in a building. Silly me thought going around the building a bit then out the back and sitting down on some grass would be enough. (Still within bounds of course.)
It's been years, I don't remember the time it took, but it was a very fast hide and seek.
1stDrunkJoe
Can I borrow one once in awhile to find the TV remote my kids lost.
dmbpapa
Key fob for me
1stDrunkJoe
I keep mine clipped to my belt loop, the annoyance of searching has overcome my desire to not look like a maintenance man.
WorkerLurker
My Roku has a button that makes the remote “chirp” when I lose it. Every remote needs these.
Isthe4thtimethecharm
I saw a documentary years ago. They said that a dogs sense of smell was so acute. That if we could taste as well as they smell. It would be like us being able to taste a teaspoon of sugar mixed into an Olympic sized swimming pool. I still can't imagine what life with a nose like that would be like.
PSFE43X
Smelly.
Ulthirm
you know how most people can filter out noises generally pretty well when attempting to focus on another individual's voice? Prolly a bit like that, altho poor autistic dog that CANT do that.
Snooj
The comparison I saw was that when we smell a cake they smell ingredients.
bitemark
And bears are supposed to be 100x more sensitive to smell than dogs, which is why they say to hang your food in bear country
BoomyGordo
they say to hang your food anywhere because it keeps scavengers (not just bears) from getting into it when they smell it. has nothing to do with them being able to smell better.
bitemark
My bad with the wording, I didn't mean for it to sound like they can't smell it as well if it's hanging, just that they'll come from miles away for the smallest morsel and ransack your tent for it
thegarts
I got what you meant.
mushroomking
They're really lucky they like the smell of poo
nooneinohio
Don't shame me
thismusicsucks
They actually have a special organ in their sniffer that bypasses the part of the brain that evokes disgust. That's why they never revulse at nasty smells.
Zarick
A necessity when you can smell that well.
ProjectDA
smelling poop is beneficial for them. gives them information so they have no reason to be disgusted by it as we would. dogs do have things they dont like to smell. my dog hates hops. as soon as he smells a beer he will back away quickly and start sneezing. he will not come back around for a bit and will stay away if he see they beer still.
JRaven419
KiwiGameDev
You never seen the dog that sniffs a girls nether portal and IMMEDIATELY pukes on the poor lass?
iMcFly
Why? Do they not like the smell of obsidian?
Zalm
Must be routed through the pleasure part, cuz they always like to roll in said smell
squillis
Istealfromthefrontpage
Ok that's neat. I wonder how my dog stays outside the bathroom when my wife is in it... that ass is nuclear with courtesy flushes.
Gwenx
My old dog would sit at my dads feet while he was releasing this toxic gass.. i think the dog was just braindamaged 😭☠️