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FLOPPY EARS!

That dog looks so happy every time it pops up. :D
posted by zarq at 9:56 AM on July 17, 2015 [1 favorite]


More like "How my dog doesn't find me in a field."
posted by Chuffy at 10:04 AM on July 17, 2015 [4 favorites]


I hope the farmer doesn't mind you and quadriped walking through his crops.
posted by fordiebianco at 10:10 AM on July 17, 2015 [2 favorites]


DUCK HUNT
posted by grumpybear69 at 10:18 AM on July 17, 2015


grumpybear69: "DUCK HUNT"

That fucking dog.
posted by imnotasquirrel at 10:28 AM on July 17, 2015 [4 favorites]


All I can think about is the ticks.
posted by achrise at 10:30 AM on July 17, 2015 [14 favorites]


"Finds" doesn't mean what that person thinks it means.
posted by OHenryPacey at 10:34 AM on July 17, 2015 [1 favorite]


It's mocking him for taking a vertical video.
posted by I-baLL at 10:40 AM on July 17, 2015 [6 favorites]


the moving grass seems to trigger some kind of paelolithic savannah predator fear response in me because every time the dog popped up excitedly i felt an enormous relief
posted by poffin boffin at 10:47 AM on July 17, 2015 [3 favorites]


A PUPPY NOT A MURDERCAT
posted by poffin boffin at 10:47 AM on July 17, 2015 [4 favorites]


That might or might not be a gigantic field, stretching out all around her and making it particularly funny and sweet to see her little dog popping up to search for her. If only there were some way to convey the size of the field. The way it stretches out . . . a great, green panorama from left to right . . . filling the wide, horizontal field of ordinary human vision. If only there were some . . . way . . . some . . . way.
posted by The Bellman at 10:56 AM on July 17, 2015 [25 favorites]


Next time, right after he sees the dog pop up, he should drop to the deck and hide.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 10:56 AM on July 17, 2015 [1 favorite]


I don't mess around in fields--that's ridiculous, but used to do this with my Labradors in the winter when the snowpack was taller than them. They were puppytunnels and they were fun.
posted by riruro at 11:15 AM on July 17, 2015


Having had a Springer Spaniel for 14 years I reasonably guessed that it would be a Springer (hence the name) in the video. They are simply beautiful to watch as they work a field or thicket. And I am curious what triggered the grumpy posts in a relatively innocuous post--ticks, harming/damaging a field, video technique, wording of the post and I have no idea what "duck hunt" means.
posted by rmhsinc at 11:33 AM on July 17, 2015 [4 favorites]


oh god TICKS!
posted by sutt at 11:42 AM on July 17, 2015


duck hunt
posted by poffin boffin at 11:42 AM on July 17, 2015 [2 favorites]


RELEASE THE DIANOGAH.
posted by Going To Maine at 11:44 AM on July 17, 2015




Not trying to be grumpy, just realistic. My dogs know when they hear "OK, Tick Check" they need to stand still while I check them out from nose to tail.

Then there was that time we short-cut through a field in Delaware that looked exactly like this and we were all so infested with microscopic deer ticks that I had to insect-bomb the inside of the car.
posted by achrise at 11:55 AM on July 17, 2015


Duck Hunt--God, my age is really showing--I assumed it had something to do with duck hunting because Springers can also be water retrievers. Thanks for the clarification and dose of humility
posted by rmhsinc at 12:03 PM on July 17, 2015


Forget ticks - that looks like a field full of fox tails. Or is it something else that just looks like foxtails and is harmless? In that case, yeah...ticks.
posted by allkindsoftime at 1:26 PM on July 17, 2015


It's a field of barley.

I'm not sure the famer would appreciate this...
posted by Helga-woo at 2:36 PM on July 17, 2015


Somewhere, a Pixar procedural effects animator is just kicking themselves for not thinking of this.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 2:56 PM on July 17, 2015 [2 favorites]


Well this is the perfect opportunity to ask something I've been wondering about this summer. I have several times walked my dog on a rails-to-trails trail that goes through wheat fields and my dog has come up dotted with ticks. Is he getting them from grass along the trail, or are the fields of wheat infested with ticks as well? When the FDA allows a certain number of insects per pound of wheat, are those insects TICKS? Am I eating TICKS in my delicious Walker's shortbread?
posted by HotToddy at 5:35 PM on July 17, 2015 [1 favorite]


Nice. During rice harvest time my boss's dog, Chino "The Hardest Working Dog In the Rice Business," loves meandering through the fields. She doesn't jump up like this, so to find her you have to watch the field carefully and look for "dog sign." When not meandering through the field, she'll walk along with the combine and catch any frogs jumping out of the way. Then she will "play" with said frog until it is dead.
posted by snwod at 5:46 PM on July 17, 2015


HotToddy -- it's the grass along the trail. Ticks like humidity and sowed wheat fields don't hold onto as much humidity as a mixed wild grass field or something more dense like alfalfa.
posted by nathan_teske at 6:37 PM on July 17, 2015


What this video needs is the music from Jaws.
posted by JHarris at 9:09 PM on July 19, 2015


Thank you nathan_teske, I am happy to believe this is true!
posted by HotToddy at 3:38 PM on July 20, 2015


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