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To: Red Badger
Dogs don't remember what happened yesterday and don't plan for tomorrow.

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?

13 posted on 03/02/2015 11:05:13 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: grobdriver

Dogs bury bones and then relocate with smell........................


15 posted on 03/02/2015 11:06:34 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: grobdriver

Maybe it’s just the concept of time. The dog doesn’t think “Oh this happened yesterday”. The dog thinks, “they have the medicine, I get a treat”


19 posted on 03/02/2015 11:08:08 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: grobdriver

I call BS on this too. My dogs remember a lot of things. They remember when I go out a door that I will come back in that same door, they are waiting for me there. When my chair makes a squeak, they know I am getting up, when this happens at night, they know I am going to bed and they are already ahead of me going down I the hall. When I put on my yellow plastic apron they know they are going to get a bath and I can see them hang their heads. One of them even knows the word “bath” so i am careful not to say it or she will hide from me. I think this guy has some dumb dogs.


23 posted on 03/02/2015 11:13:31 AM PST by Ditter
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