WARNING: Flickering DVR footage.
By popular request: more dog videos. Miko likes to chase my drones. Unfortunately, his teeth do quite some damage to my little drones. This particular drone needed significant repairs after he caught it once. But anyway, you can see Momo girl stays near me when the drone is flying while Miko successfully knocks the drone from the sky multiple times. He then stands guard and tries to stop the drone from launching again.
The video is "DVR" footage recorded on the goggles that I wear. The view you see, including all of the flashes, is what I see when I fly the drone. The light levels are challenging, so I hope you can see well enough. The footage is unstabilised, and the framing is unchanged. I have boosted the colours to help see what's going on. Sometimes Miko strikes out of nowhere just because the camera isn't pointing in that direction.
I am still trying to train Miko to leave the drones alone. This tiny drone can't hurt him, but he's already caused hundreds of dollars of damage (seriously!) to this drone. Several batteries have teeth marks on them, and I've had to replace multiple camera lenses, solder wires and antenna that he'd broken. The worst was that he damaged the AIO main circuit board, which is half the cost of the drone just for that one part! However, I'm not mad at him because I wanted to learn how to repair drones. After all, DIY building and repairing are part of the FPV hobby.
I have some bigger drones that I want to fly around, which could cut Miko badly. He got some bleeding cuts on his nose from one of those drones. So, for now, while I fly, he has to sit outside. The best success I have with getting him to sit calmly while drones are flying is to put him on his lead.
By contrast, Momo used to be nervous around the drones and run off to hide. My philosophy is to support my dogs through their nerves, so I trained her to sit close to me. Unfortunately, Miko is the new dog in the house, so Momo is a little unsure about what to do, so she doesn't sit. Momo now sleeps when the drone flies and is generally very relaxed unless the drone flies too close to her head.
The last time I went to the park to fly drones with local FPV people, some neighbour dogs came to chase the drones. The owners were thrilled because the dogs got some exercise and the drone pilot was happy to have some directed tasks with his drone. He promised to send the GoPro footage from the drone to the owner to post on their social media. A few other dogs chased the drones too. Something about drones is very appealing to some dogs!
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