Thread: How dogs know

Oh yeah! They certainly do. And they can tell time I’m sure.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Oh yeah! They certainly do. And they can tell time I’m sure.

Yep Our dog starts banging on the door at 12 for lunch & again at 5pm for dinner

I'm totally convinced that dogs ( and cats ) have a telepathic link with their humans. It's only one way, as I have absolutely no idea what's going on in their heads, apart from foodfoodfoodfoodfoodfoodfoodfoodfoodfoodfood and, in the case of the dog, walkwalkwalkwalkwalkwalkwalkwalkwalkwalk.

Oh, and why do dogs get excited when we turn onto a dirt road?? I have never had a dog that doesn't, and right now I have a rent-a-dog that does it as well.

Our Pip when ever I take him for a wash he will lay on front seat but will sit up when I drive into the carpark & on way home the same but gets up when I drive into our street.

Ours is the same, start putting things in the car, and its at the front door waiting to go.

Shut the back door, and she also sits on the front step knowing we are going somewhere, that may or may not involve her.

Grab the lead, and she is running around excited, comes 4.00pm,she is sitting in the laundry looking at her food bowl.

First thing in the morning, she sits near the front door, knowing shortly it will be time for her to go out the gate, get the paper, and on return, get a bone.

One thing I cant work out is how they know, when they are in the car, we are getting close to our destination.

What they do is spend all the time watching their owners, and pick up and remember things that the owners do, then summise what is going to happen.

Hi,
1960s, on a train, slow, 3'6" gauge, on a long curve in farmland.
Dog leaves house 1/2 mile away, tears down to chase train.
Dumb dog!
Through the wire fence, runs alongside train.
Silly dog!
From the last carriage, a rolled newspaper is thrown and arcs through the air.
Caught mid bound by dog.
Clever dog!
Dog runs back to house with paper,
Smart dog!
Cheers

My dog is usually accurate to within a minute on dinnertime. She also can immediately identify the difference between work clothes and boots ("I can come too can't I?") and got to town clothes and boots ("I know I can't come, but I'll get a treat as the boss leaves!") but can also tell if there is a suitcase loaded into the car it means "I'm coming too!".

every week I get the recyclables bin from inside and put it in the carport.
Then I get the ute from the shed about 80 metres away and bring it to the carport, load that and the household junk bin and take it down the lane to put it in respective bins.

Our rescue dog, a 5yo black mainly Kelpie - who loves a ride in the ute above nearly anything else in life - worked out this pattern within a few months of us getting him a couple of years ago.

Now by the time I come out of the house with the white bin each Monday afternoon and put it on the ground - the dog races up to the ute and waits for me there.

Thats pretty good - a weekly behavioural pattern - I wonder what other time frames they are able to cue into? Monthly/seasonally?