Posted on 03/02/2015 10:55:47 AM PST by Red Badger
My dog recognize several of the parks I take her to even when we haven’t been to them in months.
((BS))
I’m not so sure about that. When my golden retriever was just about a year or so old, my wife hid some rice at the bottom of her dog food bowl as a treat - ONE TIME! To this day, almost nine years later, every time she gets her food, she digs through the bowl with her nose and looks at the bottom to see if her treat is there this time.
Not my golden. If she gets mad at us for being gone too long and tears something up, we can tell when we walk in the door - she gets a guilty look before we even see what she did. As a matter of fact, that is usually what tells us we'd better go find out what she did...
My wife is and always has been terrified of snakes.
Her reaction to a snake is so rapid and so violent that I don't think there is any "remembering" going on. She recognizes that the object is a snake and the rest is on auto-pilot.
I think it is possible, though difficult to know, that some animals routinely operate on a similar principle. Recognizing a danger or associating a situation or object with potential pleasure doesn't necessarily require any conscious memory of why that association exists.
Dead has a pretty strong scent as well...............
Good one!.................
Yeh tell that to our Chihuahua Coco at 3:00PM everyday when she stretches jumps down off the couch and heads to the back door for midafternoon pee and treat. :-)
That’s those little wristwatches they have. LOL
My neighbor’s Chihuahua, Roach, loves to howl with the 5 o’clock whistle.
BS
LOL! One might begin to think dogs are holding back and "playing dumb". They're thinking, "If I show off too much, next thing you know, they'll want me to run the vacuum cleaner".
Our late Cocker Spaniel, Rufus, was a very sharp, intelligent dog.
Once by accident we had left him in the house and were gone too long. He knew that toileting on the run was wrong, so he used a cat box. The cats resented it, and would no longer use THAT cat box (we had five cat boxes). From then on, it was his, but that is besides the point BECAUSE no one taught him to use it in the first place. It was not learned behavior - he figured it out for himself.
Yes we do pack howl about once a week with ours. She can really howl too. We start doing and then she joins in. Its hysterical.
-PJ
Cats are soooo possessive.................
A beagle we used to have would let us know that he wanted to go out. He would stand at the front door waiting. Once when it was raining heavily, I opened the front door for him. He took one look then ran to the back door. There was logic in his thinking, but he didn’t understand that rain would naturally be going on in both places.
When mu daughter was in HS band she played trumpet.
When she would practice, our dog, Tigger, a mix mutt would start howling as long as she played......................
I disagree. Dogs are intelligent and do recognize us even when we don’t pay attention to them.
They do recall their own name and learned commands far more easily than humans who can’t recall what they had for lunch six months ago.
Don’t knock down man’s best friend.
I tell people that my dogs are unlike my ex-wives in that the later I come home at night, the happier my dogs are to see me.
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