Thread: Dog vision. Interesting simulation.

Originally Posted by Pengy

There is an old boy of a Golden Lab that I meet at the beach most days. He is totally blind, and fairly deaf, but he finds his ball, or a stick thrown into the sea. It takes him a while, but he always finds it

I can fumble around in the dark and find my watch as well Pengy. I am a bit concerned about this cross species dalliance though mate. You do realise that your offspring will be Penguadors or possibly Labraguins don't you?

Originally Posted by Friwi

Same for your dog If you punished his ears with years of duck shooting and deer hunting.

Hence why hunting breeds were developed to have folded ears ... and to protect their ears in the rough conditions they hunt in ...

Originally Posted by Rushy

Now that I know they see fuzzy images I will never stop still and bob all over the place in front of my Great Danes and confuse the living shit out of them. Ha ha ha ha gotta wake them up first.
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Awesome couch potatoes.... the big hound breeds all the same

Just thinkin about the old ridgey I had .... one day I caught him on the deck in the back yard peering round the side of the house , his head nodding away .... up and down up and down . Upon investigation there was a kid on a tramp across the road on a rear section behind a fence at least 100m away ,, up and and down up and down.... he also used to watch planes in the sky at so many hundred or thousand feet...... but I guess his hearing pointed him in that direction first

Now explain how their taste receptors transmit the taste of arse and other dogs poo as delicious, and you have yourself a Nobel Prize

Yeah I'm on the fence, I have had occasion where the dog sees something and knows what it is from a great distance ( prey ) Like paddling out to a duck 250 M away and then I have occasions when the dog cant find me in a open field untill i wave my arms .

A mates GWP (sadly gone now) used to spot incoming birds such as starlings when they were all but invisible to the human eye.

This thread is interesting. It shows how widespread a general lack of understanding many have over how a dog works and operates. That a blaze orange dummy is that color for the handler would be one of the most basic things I would expect ANY basic dog handler to know. All of the examples given of things dogs can see have been moving. Anyone who has recalled a dog while being in a group of people having trouble identifying which is their handler on return unless there is a wind from behind the handler. Most handlers in this situation will have to extend their arms and repeat the recall just so the dog gets a recognition.

The better you understand these aspects of your dog, the better you will handle your dog. The more you try and believe the dog thinks, acts, sees, hears and smells like you do you are putting up impediments you don;t need.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

my cocker is nearly blind due to faaarked up breeding (dont get me started) even on his good day a dead duck on water is fairly safe if more than 50 yards away....chuck a rock in its direction to give him a clue and his nose will take him the rest of the way.Ive seen heading dogs spot pigs at 6-700 mtrs but they had clues by us humans watching them,and come to think of it you can give arm signals from a long way away too.

Arm signals involve movement. They see that really well.

Originally Posted by EeeBees

Hence why hunting breeds were developed to have folded ears ... and to protect their ears in the rough conditions they hunt in ...

Cut it out. Dogs had folded ears long before they were even used in sporting pursuits.

just cos a dog turns his head towards an unseen incoming duck don't mean he see,s it.
it means he,s heard it and trying more likely to bring his snout first then his eyes maybe onto the job.
maybe turning to it helps cross reference the lugholes to.

Originally Posted by Ruff

This thread is interesting. It shows how widespread a general lack of understanding many have over how a dog works and operates.

How can a dog recognize its owner from 100m? My dog had no issues with me

And why don't seeing eye dogs have glasses? Be the blind leading the blind

A Lab can only see food. Everything else is irrelevant.

Our dog used to catch flies mid air, using ears and nose alone would be something alright.