For a long time my dog was my herping partner. She lives with my parents and is getting too old to do a lot of hiking now, but she figured out I was looking for reptiles and amphibians, and she'd just go sniff them out and point to rocks and logs they were hiding under and wait for me to pull them out and show her. She knew not to chase them or try and dig them out before I got there too.

lol Needless to say, I don't have nearly the luck I used to without a dog to sniff them out for me.