jacks
Junior Hunter/worker
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Post by jacks on May 10, 2010 19:32:12 GMT -5
Well it os another day and thought formulate with time. Now I am curious Jacks, Why did you assume because the dog only has two color cones and can't distingwuish red from orange or yellow from green. that the object isn't readily visible to him. The doig just doesn't see color like we do but he isn't blind. Cuz didn't explain that to you very well. I was reading yesterday or the day before that Charlie Lucky has passed and was responsible for taking a $1,000,000 of contraband off the streets. I am not assuming that a dog can not see a known shape, like a bumper. And I never wrote anything to the effect that a dog can not distinguish between red and orange. Like Ed you are assuming that the dog can not see it, which in Eds example was a known shape, the bumper on a flat surface, water. And yes I agree that a dog does not see, or perceive the color spectrum the way a human does. Ask a color blind man about a traffic light. He will tell you that he sees the light and knows the sequence, go, yield and stop, but he does not see the color. And yes, Charley Luckey is dead. As for the other I don't know. I know my daughters were very upset and Michael is in a funk. It would not surprise me tho. That dog was a dope hunting fool.
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Post by Summit Forge on May 11, 2010 6:53:21 GMT -5
Don, I don't remember seeing a pic of Cowboy retrieving in cold water. Let's see it again. If he is going to be retrieving in the Chesapeake Bay, that water will be very cold in waterfowl season.
Ron
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Post by ed on May 11, 2010 9:18:45 GMT -5
"Like Ed you are assuming that the dog can not see " Jacks anything but that.....I have launched from .22 powered device three consecutive dummies all 60 yard plus at various angles and he marked the fall and retrieved them even though the second and third had moved by the time he swam out to get them. As you would guess in choppy water its a lot harder. The last 10-20 yards was air scenting until he saw it again. Great vision for movement sometimes looks blind as a bat for still objects.I see hunkered down rabbits less than 25 yards away which he misses unless they move or he scents them.
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Post by hicntry on May 11, 2010 9:39:59 GMT -5
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Post by hicntry on May 11, 2010 9:45:52 GMT -5
Jacks, I said they can't distinguish between red and orange....or yellow and green. What color they may be seeing it in seems irrelevant. I was just saying they don't just go blind. I did go bacl and lookmit up briefly. The belief is a dog sees motion very well but anything else is fuzzy past 20 yds.
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Post by oksaradt on May 11, 2010 12:16:58 GMT -5
ok, c'mon guys.....color blind......it's not rocket science. They can see the objects, they just can't tell you one is red and one is orange and all the shades in between.
Jim
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Post by hicntry on May 11, 2010 12:24:01 GMT -5
Yeh, that's pretty much the way I "see" it. LOL
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Post by maugh on May 11, 2010 12:51:53 GMT -5
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Post by Summit Forge on May 11, 2010 20:46:35 GMT -5
Don, It looks like he is taking to his water retrieving quite nicely. Good looking head as well.
Ron
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