A Mystery Solved, An Excuse and We are Yellow!

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

1 The Mystery

Some of you may recall seeing this humiliating video of poor Tara searching for her red ball in a pile of leaves.

Since this video was made I have been contemplating taking her to an optometrist for an eye exam.

But first I consulted with my friend Google and found some interesting info about our doodle's vision.

 The doodle color spectrum vs the human color spectrum:

As you can see, there is NO red in the Doodle world. This was a relief an interesting bit of info in regard to Tara's flailing about determined pathetic attempt to find her red ball. I say MYSTERY SOLVED!!! My Doodle girl  IS ready for Search and Rescue as long as there is nothing RED involved!!!

2. The Excuse

I also discovered THIS info:

"Visual Acuity

This is an area that humans hold an advantage. Resolution or Visual Acuity is the ability to resolve shapes over a distance. For instance it is not uncommon for a human to have 20/ 20 vision. This means at 20 feet they can see what a person with ‘good’ sight can see at 20 feet. However a dog typically has approximately 20/ 75 vision (range 20/50 to 20/100). This means that a human at 75 feet can see the same shape differentiation that a dog has at 20 feet from an object.

You may like to remember this the next time your dog is a long way off (with its head much closer to the ground) and you call them and expect them to see you. At long distances dogs rely much more on their higher audio detection capabilities and movement detection to see humans."

I thought I was having problems with Tara and her long distance recall but now I understand that she just can't seem me! (wink wink). Training problem SOLVED!!

3. We are Yellow

This is the really scary part!!! You have to see me wearing yellow to truly understand!!

How humans see:

How Doodles see:

Are we really yellow to our doodles???? OMD!!!

So there you have it! A mystery solved, a great excuse and sorry people but we are yellow!!

[F, Calla & Luca]

Now I see what on line friendships lead to --mockery. Good thing I've had a lifetime to toughen up even washed skin.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I was telling your brother about my comment and your counter-reproductive comment. Of course, he was watching Downton Abbey, so he may have not heard me, but he did laugh :)

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Really Laurie? We KNOW YOU DON"T WATCH PBS someone must have said that to you before!

And...just so you know, neither do I and I have heard it myself - ha ha

[Jarka, Monty & Auggie]

What gets me the most is that you left Tara search for the ball this long without helping her. I would most probably drop the camera and run to help poor Tara. I'm a softie. :-)

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

Jarka I used to help her in situations like this but her therapist told me to stop because she needs to build self confidence! :)

[F, Calla & Luca]

Seriously, I said the thing about smell because Luca can detect balls buried in snow or leaves at times. It is true he sometimes misses ones right on the ground in front of him though. But when he's searching it's always nose to the ground, he never picks up his head for a visual scan.

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

It is supposed to be all about the nose. I'm going to have to have a talk with Tara about it. She does have an appointment with the Ear, NOSE and Throat Specialist just in case she has a little nasal congestion.

[Donna K & Quincy]

We were out walking today when a ginormous Irish Wolfhound managed to sneak up on all three of us. I understand DH and I not seeing him since he came up behind us but Quincy was behind us, how the heck did he miss that?

 Quincy doesn't wait for you to throw a ball, he runs to where he thinks you are going to throw it. I've developed a system when playing ball with Quincy, I have to wait until he is watching me before I throw it so that he can follow and see where it lands. If I throw when  he is not watching, I sometimes have to direct him by pointing and he gets that pretty well, but I often seen him walk right over the ball and keep on looking. Search and rescue will not be signing us up any time soon. 

I stopped one evening to pick Quincy up from my husband who was visiting a friend at his tropical fish store, as soon as Quincy walked out the door you could see his nose go and his head come up looking for me, it took him about 2 seconds to find me. I blamed my DH for saying let's go find Mom but he swears he didn't. I was sitting inside the car so he couldn't have seen me. This is the same dog that can't find me when we play hide and seek inside.

Blue ball experiment coming up, as soon as I can find a blue ball.

[Jarka, Monty & Auggie]

Donna, I'm going to be on Quincy's side here: my explanation of him not being to find you inside the house is that the whole house already smells like you so it's harder for him to track you. Right, Quincy? ;-)

As for the balls, Monty has an orange ball, a blue one, and an orange with blue stripes. Guess which one is his  favorite? The striped one. He seldom plays with the blue or the orange ones.  Go figure. Perhaps with the striped one, there is more contrast him him. Who knows.

[Donna K & Quincy]

Jarka, I did think about that but I thought if I said I filled the house with my scent I would be opening myself up for ridicule from you know who.  I probably already did that with the sniffing me out inside a car  comment but in my defence, I had just worked 12hrs. :>)

You are right, we have not solved this mystery yet.

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

Donna, I resisted the temptation to ridicule but some others may not be able to...

[Donna K & Quincy]

Ricki, I admire your restraint, not sure I could have done it. :>)