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Last night I turned my dog loose and she went 1 mile. I drove down the road about a mile and got to within 750 yds of her and toned her. Instead of going back to where I turned her out, she came straight to where I was parked. Now how in the world did she know where I was? I didn't call her and I was by myself so I wasn't talking to anyone. Surely there is no way that she could smell me at 750 yds.

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Saw your headlights, heard your vehicle would be my guess.

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A couple of cars went down the road. How did she know that one was mine. She might have heard them but there is no way she saw them through the woods at 750 yds. I wonder if she can recognize what my vehicle sounds like from that far?

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A dog certainly recognizes individual vehicles by their sound. Mine knows my hunting buddy's truck, the ups truck (for some reason that one really gets him going) and my truck. He will start barking when they are several hundred yards away. Other traffic goes down the road and he pays no attention at all.

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Originally posted by Richard Lambert
I wonder if she can recognize what my vehicle sounds like from that far?

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I'm old school, I like to walk hunt. I've noticed that when my dogs are out hunting and I move that when they check in they come to my new location. I can tell by the Garmin that they didn't trail me there. They just seem to know where I am.

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.... They just seem to know where I am....

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Isn't that weird. I think that some of them know a lot more than we give them credit for.

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Cars come and go at and by my house all day but when my hunting buddy gets close they let me know.lol

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A short story that happened, we wreck about a hour from home coming back from a comp. Hunt. In a town ( pop. 20000) wooden dog box explodes, my dog found fast, buddys dog gone, after 2 weeks of searching we decide to go down and search for the last time. At the end of the day we give up and stop to get an ice cream cone. We walk out and look to our left and 75 yards away here come his dog running top speed to us. The dog knew we were there before walk of the building. You may of had to of been there and had to gone through what we did to appreciate the story but the memory of that dog running towards us is fried into my brain 35 years later.

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All my dogs know the sound of my truck...

Richard...750 is very doable as far as winding goes for some dogs...of course wind speed and direction have to be right as well as other conditions possibly like temperature and barometric pressure...

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All my dogs know the sound of my truck...

Richard...750 is very doable as far as winding goes for some dogs...of course wind speed and direction have to be right as well as other conditions possibly like temperature and barometric pressure...

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Had a buddy that was hunting one night, he turned loose at one place and one of his dogs was running junk which made him mad. He drove over 10 miles to another spot and much to his surprise, the dog he left over 10 miles away found him at the new spot. How the dog done that, he never knew, but always thought that the dog tracked his truck to the second place. Sounds reasonable to me. Dave

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Richard. One night just a few years I had something similar that I think about and still wonder about.
Dogs were dead in the center of a block about 2 miles square. I had drove to the other side of the block thinking they were headed that way before they broke down right in the middle. Anyway I toned them and they came straight to me. Wondered several times how they knew where to come to.
I also was hunting one night and we were traveling in an area full of roads. When we went by a side road and my buddy said he saw coon eyes. We pulled down there and cut that pup out. Well those coon eyes were a deer. That pup drove him about two miles away and into a very large section of land. So big it is called the state of maine by the hunting club. Anyway that was in the 90’s before Garmin. After a couple hours and giving up on her and treeing a coon with the older dogs in box. We headed home. Now this area is a maze of roads cut through the woods planning a development. Anyway we started out and saw dog tracks on our truck tracks. Now people would get lost on these roads because only a couple crossed a big creek and those crossings were 2 miles apart. Anyway the dog was found after about 3 miles following her tracks. She navigated every road and turn correctly while heading out. The only logical thing I could come up with is she was trailing the truck out. And it had to of been 4 or 5 hours since we had went down that maze of roads. She was out of Trambles Bo dog. A crazy bozo pup. Lol. That wasnt the last deer she ran either.

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Hunting dog senses...
Back in the early 90’s I had a young dog to get injured by a big boar hog...it was a bit more than I could doctor so I took him to the vet that I normally used for times like this...the Vet said the injury was not life threatening and with proper care he would be fine...but he said he needed to keep Redman over night...

That night around 1 AM my dogs started howling very mournfully... I listened for a minute and thought...they howl once in a while and I usually jump up and shut them up quickly...

But the howling this time was very different...it was very mournful and sad sounding...my wife wakes up and I tell her... I don’t think Redman made it...she asked why and I said listen to the dogs... I think they are mourning his passing...next morning I called the vet as soon as they opened...the receptionist said the vet wanted to speak with me...and he said Redman didn’t make it that he had drowned in his own fluids while he was in recovery from from surgery...

Maybe it was coincidental but I think not...

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When I tone mine in she is no matter what coming too where I dropped her. I can yell whistle what ever she is zoned in on getting back to that spot. Its a blessing in disguise sometimes. I’ve had her get there and me not be where she was dropped and hit the road and go home when I used to live close to where I hunt.

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My dogs don't bark when any of my family gets home in the middle of the night. Yet, if a strange car pulls into the driveway they will bark and the dogs are behind the house and a good 400 feet from the driveway. They learn to recognize vehicles.

Or maybe ya need to quit using that old spice aftershave.

Dogs and animals are much more tuned into their surroundings than what we are capable to do. Each decade I think man kind is getting further and further away from nature.

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My dogs don't bark when any of my family gets home in the middle of the night. Yet, if a strange car pulls into the driveway they will bark and the dogs are behind the house and a good 400 feet from the driveway. They learn to recognize vehicles.

Or maybe ya need to quit using that old spice aftershave.

Dogs and animals are much more tuned into their surroundings than what we are capable to do. Each decade I think man kind is getting further and further away from nature.

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