As we dog lovers know, dogs are pretty amazing animals. There are series of trails that attach to our neighborhood that Emmitt and I have been exploring lately. I tend to get nervous that I might get lost, though the likelyhood of that is so slim since its in the middle of town and eventually we will hit a road....though said road may be miles from our home..
Anyway, recently I found that it attaches to the downtown. I have only walked it once, and I was pretty lost, back tracking and taking wrong turns all over. I decided to run it with Emmitt yesterday, hoping I could remember how to get back home. Amazingly as we ran, he took every turn exactly right, he even skipped the ones we accidentally took the first time. How do they know? Is it sense of direction, memory, scent? I can't imagine its scent, he didn't really mark the first time, and it had been at least a week since we walked it. Time to do some research I think.
Either way, when I go hiking, Emmitt will always be my hiking buddy!
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My dad tells me that when they were all younger, uncle Keith had a dog who got lost right before they were moving to a new state. After searching to no avail, they decided they had to leave without the dog. Two weeks after moving in, the dog showed up at their new house, which he'd never seen before! My guess is that he tracked their scent, but who knows!
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