>> Dogs don’t remember what happened yesterday and don’t plan for tomorrow.<<
How DARE you call dogs members of the democratic party!
Neither do a lot of people I know.
Oh yeah? My Jack Scnauzer mix used to remember where he saw all the squirrels. We had to check out those spots every time I walked him.
He also looked upward into the trees to find them.
HA! My dog remembers every place I’ve ever stashed snacks in the last 5 years and every day he makes the circuit checking to see if I might have done so again.
if this is true, how can they be trained?
I have tried to explain this concept to my husband. If we do not catch the little darling in the act, she does not understand.
Isn't burying a bone "planning for tomorrow"?
I think I call BS on them not remembering yesterday - I'm treating our dog for a bit of redeye with an ointment.
She gets a squirt of ointment on the eye, I rub it around, and then she gets a cookie (dog treat). This animal is very food-centric and it's how we've taught her everything - and reward for everything.
So if she can't remember yesterday, why is it she knows she gets a cookie after her medicine when I give her the morning dose?
My mini dachshund remembers ‘her’ favorite people after four years absence and resumes the relationship exactly where it stopped. Quickly brings the same toy she and the human played with the last time they both were present. So I am unconvinced of the above.
I’ve observed some dogs being shocked at their own farts, especially when they are sleeping. Sometimes they even growl and raise their hackles, outraged. My theory is that there is now evidence wafting about of another dog who has been eating the exact same food as them, and they want them to scram.
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Neither do libs.
I’m not sure I buy this. I’d agree that their memory is much lower than humans, but my experience with dogs is that they do remember negative episodes.
When I first got my previous dog, a choc lab, we went for a walk. She was still quite young and we walked past a parked school bus. Right when we were by the rear wheel, the air brakes let loose and scared that poor puppy nearly to death! For the rest of her life, she was scared to death of school busses! Not all busses, just school busses!
Now I have an adopted coon hound and he reacts very aggressively to men wearing carhart coats! I suspect that his previous experiences haven’t been nso great with men wearing carhart!
That said, I do agree that they only remember the most traumatic episodes! I suspect that they “don’t sweat the small stuff, unless it is about bits of food.”
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My dogs know exactly what time dinner occurs, within minutes. Horses, cats, goats, and cattle do as well. Only the switch to daylight savings time trips them up. Don't mess with dinner time.
Hmm, then why after every walk does my Basset Hound sit in front of the refrigerator waiting for a snack? Or when I say ‘lets go take a walk’ he knows where the leash is and goes and stands under it, and it can be in one of several placces.
Oh, and don’t try and hide snacks from a Basset Hound.
The more I am around people the more I love my dog!! (black Lab rescue)
I am amazed what my dog remembers. Brought home a company vehicle that he had never never seen one day and he was ready to repel the invader until I got out. Two weeks later I brought it home again and he knew it was me.
We have an underground “invisible” fence. We let the dogs out occasionally without collars and they remember exactly where the boundary is, even chasing the crack-like fix of a tennis ball.
“But dogs (and other non-human animals) are missing something we take for granted: episodic memory. Dogs don’t remember what happened yesterday ....”
BS! No one fully understand what goes on in a dog’s mind. No doubt, dogs think differently than humans. Dogs must have some degree of self-awareness to have survival instincts, even if they don’t recognize themselves in a mirror. Their concept of time is probably different than ours, but my dogs know within minutes what time it is, whether to get up or to be fed.
Dogs sure enough do have long memories. On one occasion walking my girl around the block, she was freaked out by people atop a house, banging away on new shingles. ‘Taint natural, the terrified dog thought, as she struggled to get away. She was afraid to approach that house for the next six months. No memory, phooey!
This is a false conclusion. Dogs know the reflection in the mirror is not another dog because it has no scent. Everything alive has a scent.
-PJ