Walking Agua Calente Park: Pt. 1, Molly as a sense

Sense: MOLLY

I know that using my dog as a sense sounds strange but if you look at the history of dogs and dog breeding dogs have been used as a tool to sense things for us that we may too hard or not be capable of sensing. I should clarify that my dog is a well trained PET not a trained narcotics or bomb dog just a plain old pet thats super curious. So in choosing her to be my sense I had to come up with a way to qualify "hits" in that points of reference to map. So the places she would spend sniffing intently, staring hungerly or flat out chasing I qualified as "hits" and recorded it as a picture. So here is my first run through...

Red

Green

Purple

Orange

Blue

Ok so I'm aware that thats a lot of visual information with not much explanation. In the first section (red) almost everything Molly hit on was lizards and fish but mostly fish... yes fish it was all I could do to keep her out of the water after fish. So thats why there is a focus on the water. The second section (green) was all about the trees and the ducks... which I think speaks for itself. The third section (purple) was a grassy open area so the grass I photographed the areas she hesitated the most on. The fourth section (orange) is a kind of covered walkway with trees... the dogs seem to like that place because I kept looking at poo. The fifth section (blue) was a much more desert landscape with a pond dropped into the landscape. I feel its worth mentioning that in the fifth section (blue) in the pictures in the second row from the bottom I included those pictures because Molly charged into the water without warning after the log. This gets to the heart of what I learned from focusing my attention on Molly. She doesn't care about how pretty the trees are shes just curious about where the wildlife is, was and is going to be. I'm not saying that I'm not interested in that but focusing on her made me much more aware of those things.