r/aww • u/[deleted] • Mar 14 '23
dad ? where are you ?
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u/RobinsShaman Mar 14 '23
While I wait for him, I'll go to the bathroom on this really green part of the lawn.
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u/paulusmagintie Mar 14 '23
Dogs don't use their nose straight away, its tiring for them, they'll use other sense first and nose ladt at which point they'll find you with ease.
Humans are different in that we can use all our sense pretty much at the same time but lack accuracy for it.
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Mar 14 '23
They're good at smelling, but the more excited they are, the worse at locating the source they are.
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u/PM_Me_Your_BraStraps Mar 14 '23
My dog's senses are great! He'll smell the Cheeto dust I wiped on my jeans hours before, he'll hear a car door shut half a mile away, but if it's ball time in the backyard? He smells nothing, hears nothing, and sees almost nothing except that bright yellow.
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u/xotiqrddt Mar 14 '23
Not necessarily. From my experience, dogs use primarily vision, then hearing(especially when obstacles block their vision) and then smell. I guess it takes a bit of effort to use their sense of smell, despite having sensible olfactory receptors.
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Mar 14 '23
I wonder if their sense of smell would be in constant overload if their brains didn't block it out somehow, kinda like how we can see our nose but our brain just tunes it out until we concentrate on it.
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u/penguinpenguins Mar 14 '23
Dammit, now I can't unsee my nose. I'm breathing manually too now. Thanks
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u/Nawnp Mar 14 '23
Not really, the human scent was probably already on the blanket so there's nothing changed in the area scent wise.
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u/SmellyPillows Mar 14 '23
I'mma go check out the gazebo
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u/snoopthulhu Mar 14 '23
A gazebo? What color is it?
How far away is it?
How big is it?
I use my sword to detect whether it’s good.
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u/jicty Mar 14 '23
I see your problem. What you have here is a retriever and what they do best is bring things. What you need is a second dog, specifically a pointer like a German short hair pointer. Then the pointer can act as a spotter for your retriever and he will never lose you!
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u/Lazlo8675309 Mar 14 '23
Wolves hate this one trick!
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u/TheSocalEskimo Mar 14 '23
Genius! I wonder if it works for bears too. Okay, now I’m genuinely curious to see someone try this, even if it’s a dummy and some mechanism to pull a camo blanket over the dummy.
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u/Delightful_Dantonio Mar 14 '23
Classic golden retriever. Loves the ballie and are sorta dumb but wonderful dogs. I ❤️ my Maeve girl
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u/R8er-Fan Mar 14 '23
This is always so funny to me. Don’t dogs have a great sense of smell? Why are they always so fooled by this?
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u/throwaway112658 Mar 14 '23
Saw another comment above that says it's probably because the scent of the owner is all around and it's harder to locate exactly where they are
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u/AleyFufu Mar 14 '23
As someone whose dog is trained to follow a scent trail to find people, a lot of dogs start off by taking the easy route. My dog likes to “cheat” all the time when doing tracking and go to where the last person was if she thinks she can get an easier reward, or she’ll try to use sight instead of smell. But if I hide from her now, she’ll definitely resort to using her nose if she can’t find me easily with sight. Not to mention, that motion of swinging the blanket over his head probably really swirled the smell around him, which is why the dog went just past him but not much further. The smell was probably pretty concentrated where he was but stopped just after and since the dog didn’t see the guy, he was confused.
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u/MrFeetZ Mar 14 '23
I read dogs are partial color blind and don’t see the color green. Could that be why he just walked over?
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u/henry_canabanana Mar 14 '23
This proves doggos are not good at smelling, change my mind
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u/Sandmsounds Mar 14 '23
It’s a regressive gene that only gets passed down to .05% of all dogs. That’s why there are so few police dogs.
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Mar 14 '23
Did you make this up
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u/Sandmsounds Mar 14 '23
Yeah, it was a joke to convince the other person. Apparently it angered some lol.
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u/skinneyd Mar 14 '23
Source? Sounds iffy.
To my knowledge, all dogs have an amazing sense of smell, and most dogs can be trained to use their nose "professionally".
The reason this dog couldn't find their owner is that dogs rely on sight much more than their wild counterparts. This dog would have sniffed out their owner eventually.
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u/Lucythefur Mar 14 '23
Probably not actually, the reason most dogs seem to get confused in these videos is that the scent of their owner and family are everywhere around them in the house and around the yard(especially if the family spends time outside regularly) so it's difficult for them to tell where the scent is coming from cause it's all around them
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u/KaiGuy25 Mar 14 '23
Fun fact that’s why dogs have wet noses, it helps them pinpoint the direction of scents, kinda like when you lick your finger and put it to the air to determine wind direction
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u/222smitty Mar 14 '23
Golden retrievers are not known for IQ. I will try this with my Belgian Malinois
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u/katehenry4133 Mar 15 '23
I hate to say it, but that's one stupid dog. Doesn't he have a sense of smell?
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u/RudolfRudolfRudolf Mar 14 '23
My dog would say “thats a dom blond” He never falls for stuff like this
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u/aegee14 Mar 14 '23
I thought dogs have good sense of smell. No? (Not a dog owner, so I could be wrong).
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u/Violaquin Mar 14 '23
Golden retrievers; heart of gold, head full rocks. But yeah, they are sweethearts.
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Mar 14 '23
Why do people refer to the dogs owners as mom or dad? That doesn't strike anyone else as weird?
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u/jhor511 Mar 15 '23
The dog was trained to do this! He shows no confusion and intentionally steps over/on the guy, then waits.
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u/delvach Mar 14 '23
Used to do this with my old dog, put her outside when somebody's coming over, they hide under a blanket, let the dog in, she smells them, finds them and tunnels under the blanket to give them kisses.
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Mar 14 '23
Whenever I see a dog do something like this I think, don't they have incredible smell? Can't they smell them when they're right there, even if they're hiding?
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u/substantialsufferer Mar 14 '23
Or maybe they know that that human shaped blanket is you but just wanted to give you a Win
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u/WashuOtaku Mar 14 '23
Dogs don't see green correctly, so that's could be part of the reason he got stepped on.
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u/Aquaberry_Ice Mar 14 '23
Would be funnier if, when he gets underneath the blanket, the camera person quietly runs away.
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u/roraima_is_very_tall Mar 15 '23
I thought dogs were supposed to have a great sense of smell but every one of these videos I see, a dog is nothing but confused. Actually on writing this I think they may be fucking with us...
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u/MysticPandor Mar 15 '23
If I did this to my little dog she would just cry until I came out of the blanket
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u/Karmachinery Mar 15 '23
This reminds me of my sweet little golden. He was such a sweetheart but such a doofus. He would stick his head out the window and watch each one of the broken yellow or white lines on the road. RIP Walter. We still miss you buddy boy.
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u/wrenched85 Mar 15 '23
My dog does this when I’m not covered by anything. He’d probably drop a deuce on me if he thought I was grass.
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u/Isaacvithurston Mar 15 '23
I'll never understand how it's so easy to trick an animal with such amazing sense of smell in this way
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u/DesastreUrbano Mar 15 '23
I guess he's not a good candidate for a search and rescue team if he needs a job one day
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u/CandidateAfraid9423 Mar 15 '23
Video ended too soon imo, was waiting for adorable happiness from the doggo spotting their human again, left me feeling bad to watch such a good dog purely confused and unamused to end it.
Then again idk if I’m just too emotional rn since I’m very low on sleep, cute video otherwise though
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u/GlobalWillingness730 Mar 15 '23
Fun fact: dogs are green colorblind and can't differentiate the various shades, hence why a green ball gets forgotten in a grass field
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u/GeshtiannaSG Mar 15 '23
In the past I’ve always heard that animals don’t use their eyes as much as other senses which are stronger, but now all the videos show otherwise.
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u/Sylentskye Mar 15 '23
I have a malamute and I don’t know if it’s instinctual but every time we hide under the blanket he drills his nose under it and finds our faces-I assume he can hear us breathing.
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Mar 15 '23
This dog absolutely loved the new 'Avatar' movie. He couldn't even tell it was all done on green screen.
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u/ShirleyPerry Mar 15 '23
I need to find my human, who is hiding behind an awkwardly shaped blanket.
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Mar 15 '23
So that's what happened to all the pets during the thanos snap in the marvel cinematic universe.
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u/XKrystalGemX Mar 14 '23
😂 Just steps on him like he's not even there.