I heard one today, hard to believe but true

  • mossydan
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Posts: 7727
    #1279128

    I heard one today from this guy I know whos an engineer. Kevins this guys name and is a civil engineer and does charity work on the side for the organizations that can’t afford to hire it out, kids camps, charity organizations etc.

    He told me he got a call from a company down in South Carolina about the front of a building that was sagging bad. He got on the phone and called the general contractor and he said the pillars that were holding up the front of this build were collapsing and the front of the building was about to fall. He got more information from the general contractor and told him to get some carpenters there and put up some temporary supports, and he said he’d be right down and took a plane there and went to the job site.

    He said when he walked up to look things over there was a guy sitting there with a hardhat on and a dog on a leash in front of him. Never seeing a guy with his dog on a jobsite anywhere befor he asked whats the guy with the dog doing here. The general contractor said hes here to check and find termites. Kevin asked jokingly, the guy or the dog. The general said both. He then said you got to be kidding and the general said no that he wasn’t kidding.

    The general then told the guy with the dog to go to the first support pillar and he did and the dog did nothing. He then said go to the next pillar and the dog sat beside the pillar and barked. The general then told the guys to take the pillar down and inside this pillar were thousands of termits.

    I almost started laughing but knowing some things sound impossible and are true I asked kevin…FOR REAL! and he said… for real, and he wouldn’t have believed it if he wouldn’t have seen it. He said the dog can hear the termits clicking back in the wood, believe it or not. Think this is real because I still have my doubts but maybe its true?

    JasonP
    Twin Cities
    Posts: 1372
    #1103426

    I would totally believe that story. But I bet the dog smelled em.

    JP

    kruger
    Metro,mn
    Posts: 593
    #1099225

    If a dog can sense a seizure coming on, Im gonna say hearing or smelling out termites is no big deal….

    BBKK
    IA
    Posts: 4033
    #1103438

    I’d say he smelled them. If a dog can dig up weed buried 3 feet underground, he can sure as heck smell the ammonia stench of termite crap.

    jerry b
    western WI
    Posts: 1506
    #1103441

    Believe it- -my 13 wk old pup can smell a pile of deer poop 20′ off the road and be in it before I can yank the lead to stop her. And then- -wanna come up and give kisses jerr

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    #1103445

    I’v seen this on an Animal Planet show about work dogs. They have dogs that can stiff out bees in walls and bed bugs in hotel rooms too!

    -J.

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