Dog Myths | MythBusters | Season 5 Episode 6 | Full Episode

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Is it possible to teach an Old Dog New Tricks? In attempt to find an answer Adam and Jamie go head to head with a pair of untrained middle-aged Malamute Huskies. Meanwhile, Kari, Grant, and Tory look into the myth that you can Beat The Guard Dog.
Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals.
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[@wobewobe]

i am so happy they didn't blow up the dogs in the end

[@racheljackson4428]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nugboy420]

Y b

[@jesselambert6663]

Cece and Bobo are just the sweetest! I really hope they both got adopted to a good home after this❤

[@Valfaun]

look at those absolutely beautiful dogs they got for the training myth

[@brendanmatelan2129]

3:16 MUSH! Always laughed at this

[@MyHeartsBeat]

Grant at 34:17 is so iconic. Also him petting the robocat at 34:44 like a cliché bond-villain :D RIP!

[@humanafterallTF2]

The damn stuffed cat robot just slays me, uncontroloable laughter as it zooms all over

[@frizzlethecat2084]

Man, I really like the "go pro"-version Adam had around his neck 😂

[@satchelgeddon4042]

Also, his dismount from the tree 😂 it was a long drop and I’m surprised he did it!

[@charisanna4914]

I love that bloodhounds are literally just there for sniffing, they just want a cuddle from the criminal, no teeth or anything. Also, Morgan wasn't trained for urban environment, so they should've gotten an urban trained dog

[@MrMarinus18]

Actually the most common use of bloodhounds is to find missing people, not catch criminals and missing people are not infrequently children. So having them attack a missing child they are tasked with finding is kind of counterproductive.

[@charisanna4914]

@@MrMarinus18 true. I don't know if you'd find this interesting, but they've bred bloodhounds with dobermans to catch rhino poachers. The nose of a bloodhound with the attack of a doberman. I think it's genius

[@MrMarinus18]

@@charisanna4914 I don't see the point in that. Rhino poachers are heavily armed so a dog's combat ability is pretty much meaningless.

[@charisanna4914]

@@MrMarinus18 🤷‍♀️ idk, I guess they're just trying everything they can think of

[@MrMarinus18]

@@charisanna4914 attack dogs are used for intimidation and for attacking civilians. They aren't actually used against armed people.

[@j3tts0n65]

My dog is getting put down right now Me and him used to watch myth busters all the time at my grandparents place This is helping me cope

[@rayross997]

I know your pain, my dog was my best buddy for over 16 years. I have great memories of him. Hope you are coping well and focus on the good times you had with your dog.

[@ch4rlyb0y]

Meanwhile, Adam made a gopro before it was cool. ^^'

[@MNovater]

14:31 I always interpreted the adage not as “new tricks” but more so, if you let the puppy learn bad habits, it’s more difficult to teach the older dog a new trick to correct the bad habits.

[@scbtripwire]

Poor CeCe, not even house trained. :(

[@SyrusDrake]

15:16 is my favorite impression ever. It's so accurate :'D

[@timmyingelbrecht6977]

I mean just wear the protective dogsuit and pull him along during your crime XD

[@karls8103]

or if in America shoot it or when i vomes to the fence stab it

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Instead of distracting the dog or trying to hide from it, just take it head on.

[@Xifihas]

Dog makes a ton of noise, guards come running, you get shot 57 times.

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

I would love to watch the security footage of that heist.

[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

I'm a dyslexic agnostic insomniac; I lay awake all night wondering if there really is a dog.

[@3GingerCats]

yes I think it could work if you worked in conjunction with each other too. the drum has an opening at the bottom... bad, the ball is just too big, bad the cat on a remotely controlled vehicle... the bit that worked was the remote controlled vehicle, but place a Cabin/cockpit on top of it, and one of a suitable size to fit out the exit, or block the exit while the occupant escapes... or just use the robot to steal the loot while the dog is preoccupied by humans elsewhere

[@LongPlayPladde]

As the Mythbusters like big carnage and blowing things up I was a little scared... You did top dog entertainment!

[@matthewcole6927]

Mythbusters air for 14 years, but their years of experience in the intro never went up. I would argue that the reanimation of a dead fish qualifies as "special effects"

[@venda.havelka]

In memory of Robin the Bloodhound

[@PlatoonGoon]

sew fun knee

[@queenandcorgis]

And grant imahara

[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

The best time to evade dogs is on a windy day. Rain actually makes it easy for a dog to track, but a dry, windy day is problematic for trackers.

[@GGerikP1]

The last part of this episode was recorded in my home town Livermore, California. 🙂

[@urafuknkunt]

😮

[@shinynickel05]

Having lived in the bay area, I watched that part like three times to pin down which town it was, and finally figured it out with the particular fountain and square. In fairness, I've really only spent time in Livermore after wine tasting, so my memory of that place is a liiiiittle shaky.

[@Zappygunshot]

Bloodhound fun fact: cadaver dogs are trained to sniff out a very specific compound that human corpses start to emit within _seconds_ of death, for things such as murder investigations and search & rescue (but without the rescue, I suppose). The stuff they snuff is so peculiar though, and their noses so sensitive, that they can still detect it _years_ later! They're trained by placing a tissue paper on a body for a few minutes, and then having the dog smell several tissues and pick the correct one. They're so good, that even if the body has been moved in the mean time, cadaver dogs can still find the spot it had been at just off that very specific smell. If you're curious, the oldest body on record found by a bloodhound in this way, was buried in the woods _over sixty years prior!_ Now that's what I call a nose!

[@TheGuitarfreak696]

I think "washing" could work. A fleeing convict won't just stop and wait for the dog to catch up, so just slowing it down for a while should make escape plausible.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

That is probably where the "crossing a river" idea comes from. A bigger stream that you can submerge in while swimming over would clean you up and make the part of the trail directly after the river much weaker. The pursuers also would need time to cross the river without getting wet (and they are there because they get paid, not to gain freedom), giving the escapee more time to gain distance. Basically weakening the trail as much as possible.

[@deydreamer]

I disagree. Having watched a lot of police chase videos, criminals bail out of their cars and hide in wooded areas where the helicopters can't get a line of sight. Also lots of videos out there of them hiding in backyards/under cars/dumpsters

[@GOAT_GOATERSON]

​@@deydreamercan confirm, they almost never go extremely far

[@13minutestomidnight]

@@deydreamer Yes, but if you KNOW you're using the washing tactic specifically to slow down and confuse the dog (which we saw works really well), but not intending to get it off your trail completely, then you would also know that it would eventually catch up if you stop and thus to keep moving whenever possible. What you're talking about is the psychology of escaped criminals, not the physical limitations of escaping. Plus, of course you see videos of escapees hiding like that, because they're all the idiots that get caught. The ones who get away with it, and thus are demonstrating successful escape tactics, you'll never see. So just by saying that lots of those videos exist doesn't indicate plausibility because you have a biased selection process.

[@AeonLibertas]

@@deydreamer "backyards/under cars/dumpsters" ... *nods to my Blood-Racoon, who looks suspiciously like a normal albeit very confused racoon* We GOT this Rocket! :D

[@charisanna4914]

I feel like Eewan the guard dog got retired to civilian life after this (or he wasn't a police dog) 😅😅 I've never heard of a real police k9 getting distracted by those things

[@frankbauerful]

If it's an uncastrated male (Do they use those as police K9?) the b**ch-in-heat urine absolutely 100% works. I've experienced this first hand. The male dog brain completely shuts down all its higher functions. No amount of training can overcome this basic instinctual reaction.

[@gummansgubbe6225]

"The unfit crew".

[@wolfspirits78]

Those are huskies, they may have a small amount of malamute but definitely husky as the main type

[@tatemadsen]

I would love to see what would happen if they mixed aggressive behavior and the wolf urine. Feel like that could work

[@radioartevaporwave6423]

so incredible experiments

[@tutacat]

They just said it was harder to teach an old dog new tricks, not that you can't. But we most usually use it so say humans stuck in their ways, stuggle to pick up new concepts. 7 years isn't super that old for dogs. They can easily live to about 15 years or more. It is more of a family pack than a single leader.

[@ChrisTessmer]

Lmao Carrie using any excuse she can to say "bitch" 😅

[@MarceloVolcato]

Get a car. A dog can't track you if you're in a car.

[@songoftheblackunicorn666]

Exotic chickens learn faster than dogs

[@monishfj]

The fpv camera must be heavy.

[@f1atl1n3]

Tory is just a Mek Boy - built a killa-can to counter wolves of Fenris

[@TorQueMoD]

I think the reason none of these blood hound myths are working is because they're confusing ways to throw off human trackers with blood hounds. Crossing a river or climbing a tree are ways you stop your tracks from appearing on the ground, not how you stop a blood hound.

[@ichiroutakashima4503]

This is old, but Mark Rober himself tested such concepts too. It was indeed proven that bloodhounds require interaction with their trainer. Leave the bloodhound alone and it's just a dog in the end.

[@Ma_X64]

The most probable way to trick a guard dog is be friendly and use the pose of peace in dog's body language. But you should know very well what are you doing and the signs of dog's behavior. *In this video the "submissive behavior" was done absolutely wrong by the way.

[@KingSvenDeluxe]

Who was Ronin the bloodhound? Morgan's predecessor?

[@jojolafrite90]

have people tried indifference, total cold indifference? Because I've actually seen it work for some reason on one criminal in a video of an arrestation (it was not fake the dude, hum, well, they shot the guy). The guy was flipping off the cops at one point,, the dog just ran past him, it was weird.

[@jojotheswede8444]

My granma had a malamute, a very sweet dog. Born same years as me, died at 15. I miss that dog.

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

Pity you can't train cats like with dogs, as their sense of smell is even stronger than dogs. Imagine being tracked down by a bunch of cats, they would catch me easily because I'd turn back to play with them.😸

[@easygroove]

Better train a Pig ( much nicer and friendlier compared to cats) or an Polar Bear - they are THE best in the Sense of Smell world

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

@@easygroove Oh I have to totally disagree with you there. I mean pigs do seem to be quite friendly. But I've lived with 3 cats in my lifetime, and they have all been my bestest friends. If we're talking unfriendly species, that would be humans, give me a cat any day.

[@easygroove]

@@MadHax-wt5tl :-) we wont agree on this - for me Cats are the Assholes of the Animal World (Speaking about Animals People use to have at home) anyway best regards

[@lavarsch]

@@easygroove an effing blood-bear would be terrifying af!

[@liamduncan4549]

So happy when new episodes appear hear

[@Brinta3]

I hear you.

[@slyfox743]

0:52 🧐

[@gatovillano7009]

at 5:56, that's skinnerism

[@danwarrjack]

When they were describing the scents they must’ve felt like Bart when he found out Homer’s parents weren’t married 😂

[@tutacat]

7 years isn't super that old for dogs. They can usually live to about 15 years. Also it is more of a family pack than a single leader.

[@gbulmer]

Throwing the steak towards Kari was unnecessary, and a bit disloyal, 12:10. It's clear the guard dog wasn't trained to ignore steak. Tory could have kept the dog distracted much longer just be feeding it small morsels of steak, maybe even just letting it chew on a corner of the steak through the fence? Bad boy, bad Tory!

[@babyblue6852]

How can they not tell the difference between a husky and Alaskan malamute🫠

[@Maxtyur]

One is a husky and the other one is a Malamute.

[@georgenaidoo9553]

Just bring another dog along and boom they fight , there js s diversion too

[@tonguitarra]

😮

[@kaelanreynolds9762]

I can’t believe that I am the first to view this on KZbin. Also when I had cable I had never watched it on tv. I wish when the tv ppl do reruns they don’t include this.

[@bradb9252]

For what reason.. U dont like it or don't want it played to death?

[@DrBarbequeSauce]

​@@bradb9252Facts

[@ryanbuckley3314]

An inch and a half, in the right place on a dog, gets you to lung, heart, esophagus, and, several major blood vessels. I'll bet a determined human could best a dog with a spike or something most times. The human would be torn to bits in the process and it's hard to run after a dog tears you a new one.

[@LongPlayPladde]

Mindblow for the Lowminds: K9 is one supreme wordplay!

[@PM-lz5gs]

What do you mean?

[@lavarsch]

@@PM-lz5gs canine... dogs are canine.. K nine... k9...

[@MaDHouSe79]

That police dog is not a very good police dog, a real good police dog does not eat that meat, because we teach them not to do that, even in training this kind of stuff is used all the time to teach the dog not to eat things. I've been walking around in that suit for 7 years 5 days in a week, and not one dog will eat meat when I try to feed it to the dog and before I have the change to give it, the dog has already attackt me, so there is no change that will happen, at least in my time when I was a helper I couldn't manage it, because there are exercises for it, and with a number of exercises, meat is used, while the dog has to guard things and the dog is never allowed to move away from it, only when the person comes too close (about 1.5 meter away) so there is a little chance that you can give a piece of meat to a dog that we trained, that will never happen, also you can't afford that either, suppose someone gives that dog poison, so it's learned to the dog at a fairly young age, and a good police dog will never accept meat from a stranger, that is what he has been doing all along and always learned, because that is a big part of his training, It is no coincidence that police dogs are selected for specific jobs, and whether this is a guard dog or a real police dog there is also a little difference here, because you have OB1 and OB2 and for a police dog you have PH1 and PH2, but in both cases you do not want to be bitten by such a dog.

[@jensbond93]

What about bitch in heat urine? Would that work?

[@MaDHouSe79]

it might have been combined with a bitch in heat, but how often do you come across a bitch in heat 😉, but what we see here in the video is surveillance, and as I said, a real police dog does not accept meat because it is already triggered , and if you stand by a car with police dogs in it, I don't think you have the guts to put your fingers in it 😉

[@MaDHouSe79]

The training: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3PCfJmMfql_htU This is what a police dog sute do if you come on someone property :) This are not police dogs but than you see the reaction of what a police dog sute do, you have no time to give something :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGnTnp2mZtN8iM0

[@PapaMori]

​@@jensbond93he never said it won't 😂

[@Boycott_Wendys]

This comment is false

[@Deer-Hirsch]

they forget one thing. Never use a collar on an untrained dog. Collars are for dogs who dont pull and know rules they follow, but if u are a real doog owner and love dogs u dont use collar u use Dog harness.

[@SandCoffeeRocks]

Ahh yes, but remember: this was originally filmed/aired back in 2007/2008, so that’s almost two decades ago now. Were dog harness a mainstream idea back then? Were they readily available to purchase for dog owners? I’m asking because I actually don’t know, and I couldn’t find out with internet searches... to be honest, I never saw dogs being walked in harnesses until about the last 5 or so years where I live. So yes, always use a harness for your doggos health and comfort, but I don’t think it’s exactly fair to say that the Mythbusters forgot something when it wasn’t exactly common knowledge or an accessibly technology back in 2007. However, please correct me if I’m wrong 🙏🏻

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

For a proper test there would obviously not only old dogs but also young dogs and medium aged dogs. Then see if the younger dogs learn faster and if the old dogs don't learn at all. And for a proper bind test, the trainers wouldn't know which dog is of which age. And if we want to go all the way, repeat the test with humans. Can we teach old humans new tricks?

[@shristiadhikari]

It's not about who can learn the tricks the fastest. it's about if the dogs that are of an older age are even capable of learning tricks

[@mrdan2898]

Is 50 considered to old for Humans to learn!?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Good point. One could also say that you can't teach an old human new tricks. And many people at 50 are clearly learn-resistant.

[@uriituw]

To where?

[@johannesblank1552]

Yes.

[@Redmenace96]

The distract the dog with a steak = busted/worked. They just needed two steaks, and someone who moved faster than the female.

[@ch4rlyb0y]

[@fabycho6791]

I've been giving chocolate to my dog since she was a puppy she's 15 now and alive that chocolate thing is a myth or at least the dose is almost never enough to kill them

[@Gamer3427]

Small amounts of chocolate can be alright, but their body can't break it down as effectively as humans, so too much can and will absolutely kill them. It also could depend a bit on the dog itself, as like humans, some can deal with it better than others. It's not really worth the risk testing it to find out, however.

[@easygroove]

five minutes advance is ridiculous this experiment is worth dog Sh1t

[@kkloikok]

Yeah water attaches to scent. Thats why when you fart in the shower it smells stronger