The article is from 2017, by the way.
In Chile three border collies are planting seeds (2017)
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#22This isn't just good for the forests, this is good for the Border Collies! They love to work, and deprived of work they become a little bit insane. I've seen one run faster than cars doing 35mph (or more) and I've seen the same dog just go, go, go, go, go until it couldn't go anymore, and love every second of it. This is just fantastic on a lot of levels.
It always saddens me when people get working dogs like border collies as pets without understanding their needs. Without constant stimulation they get bored and basically lose their minds. It’s really important to know what you are getting into. I guess the same is true for intelligent birds like parrots or ravens . Most people don’t understand the level of commitment these animals need.
I can't wait for more button mashing "talking dog" examples, especially if done by professionals like Cesar Milan. Being able to actively communicate could lead to all sorts of improved physical and mental health practices for dogs.
Bunny, of YouTube and tiktok fame, has demonstrated remarkably abstract thoughts, and the fart/poop humor [1] was a revelation to me. Dogs are treated like automata or mindless things, but they are intelligent and emotional on a very human level.
Giving them voices and making such systems common and easy would radically change humanity's relationship with canines for the better.
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#23I have to disagree with part of the subtitle: "Border collies Summer, Olivia and Das spend their days bounding through charred forests, unaware they're leaving a trail of seeds that could transform the landscape." [emphasis added] Border collies are not simple dogs who can learn tricks. Border collies want task lists . And as border collies often do, these three are accomplishing their task list better than I sometim…
Yeah, these border collies are aware they have a job, and probably think wandering through forest and field is the best job ever. Seriously, as if they couldn’t smell the seeds in their backpacks.
Who wouldn't think that wandering through the forest all day is the best job ever?
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#24I have to disagree with part of the subtitle: "Border collies Summer, Olivia and Das spend their days bounding through charred forests, unaware they're leaving a trail of seeds that could transform the landscape." [emphasis added] Border collies are not simple dogs who can learn tricks. Border collies want task lists . And as border collies often do, these three are accomplishing their task list better than I sometim…
> Border collies want task lists. TIL I'm a border collie.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, these border collies are aware they have a job, and probably think wandering through forest and field is the best job ever. Seriously, as if they couldn’t smell the seeds in their backpacks.
Who wouldn't think that wandering through the forest all day is the best job ever?
When I was a kid I sure thought it was!
We had one of the first houses in the Eugene (OR) subdivision where I grew up. The next lot up the hill had just had the trees cut down, so us neighborhood kids made tunnels through the fallen trees. We called it "the rough country" and had picnics under the branches.
If we walked another block or two up the hill, we were out in the uncut forest where we could explore everywhere, collect wild mushrooms and pine cones and what have you.
The lot just down the hill from ours had a house under construction, complete with a bomb shelter! Of course, this being the late 1950s, we had two main worries: getting blown up in a nuclear war, or polio.
But we'd gotten vaccinated, so the nuclear bomb was our biggest concern. We spent a lot of time in the bomb shelter, brought cookies and snacks, and conducted our neighborhood business meetings there.
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#26(◔_◔) go to http://xn--mk8hq2b.ml/ to live chat about this story
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#27Past thread:
In Chile, border collies are sowing seeds, bringing life back to forests (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17435000 - July 2018 (25 comments)
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#28This isn't just good for the forests, this is good for the Border Collies! They love to work, and deprived of work they become a little bit insane. I've seen one run faster than cars doing 35mph (or more) and I've seen the same dog just go, go, go, go, go until it couldn't go anymore, and love every second of it. This is just fantastic on a lot of levels.
>They love to work
and that is what puzzles me - the ranchers kill and don't allow wolves reintroduction because it is supposedly hurting their herds when instead they could have just got herding dogs.
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#29This isn't just good for the forests, this is good for the Border Collies! They love to work, and deprived of work they become a little bit insane. I've seen one run faster than cars doing 35mph (or more) and I've seen the same dog just go, go, go, go, go until it couldn't go anymore, and love every second of it. This is just fantastic on a lot of levels.
It always saddens me when people get working dogs like border collies as pets without understanding their needs. Without constant stimulation they get bored and basically lose their minds. It’s really important to know what you are getting into. I guess the same is true for intelligent birds like parrots or ravens . Most people don’t understand the level of commitment these animals need.
We've got a rescue Border Collie, and our theory is that she was abandoned because she's the laziest collie in existence.
She was trained to some degree, probably reasonable harshly, but just doesn't show the signs of wanting to be active and do things. (other than walkies). Running - a bit, like 10 meters, and then it's back to the trot. Balls, no. Sticks, no. General Dog play, no. Couch? yes.
We've fostered other collies, and they've been far more active. Even little pups will try to herd the cat (and sometimes succeed).
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#30How are the seeds collected? I just read about how afforestation efforts in India use non native saplings from the lowest bidder.