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Pets can judge time, study says
Fox News ^ | October 27, 2018 | Walt Bonner

Posted on 10/27/2018 9:24:14 AM PDT by yoe

If sometimes you wonder if your dog is angry with you for staying out late, you might be right. New evidence suggests that animals have a clear sense of time, using previously undiscovered neurons that seem to switch on to count off minutes as they wait.

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To: Daffynition

Yep, mine too. Her nickname is Timex.


61 posted on 10/27/2018 12:11:57 PM PDT by Beach333
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To: Beach333

I love it.

Then the drool starts; ‘Lil DRool; Big Drool; and Mega Drool...all lined up hovering over their puddles of drool. :P


62 posted on 10/27/2018 12:14:43 PM PDT by Daffynition (Rudy: What are you up to today? :))
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To: Oldexpat

Bingo! At 3:00 every day my guy says time for fun at the dog park. At 4:00 he says enough, time to go home. Dogs know much more than we think.


63 posted on 10/27/2018 12:49:42 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Bob434

I know, that’s why I said he was as smart as his owner. If Roy got the answer wrong, so would Trigger. It kind of ruins the joke to have to explain it.


64 posted on 10/27/2018 1:53:00 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: married21

My dog knows exactly when breakfast & supper time is. He also knows Sunday is the day to go to the park. However, the change to/from daylight savings time upsets his rhythm for days.


65 posted on 10/27/2018 4:11:12 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Quarter to nine... that is about fifteen minutes earlier than my four-legged mother hen used to come find me to let me know that it was time for me to end my day. It has been about two years, and I still miss that cat. Her “wake up call” was less subtle: she would stand up on her hind legs and pound the (already open) bedroom door with her front paws until it would bounce off the doorstop, after which she would bop it right back and thus set up an unholy racket of banging a hollow wooden door back and forth.


66 posted on 10/27/2018 4:43:13 PM PDT by niteowl77 ("I am equally hostile to unbridled power whether exercised by the head or tail of society.")
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To: niteowl77

cats love you lots ping


67 posted on 10/27/2018 4:52:26 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: yoe

It wouldn’t have taken a “scientific study” to confirm this. Anyone with a pet knows the pet has a definite sense of time. Especially if you’re late in feeding them. If I stay out far later than I do usually, my cats display anger when I come home. It’s like they are standing there, arms crossed, saying, “Where were YOU?”


68 posted on 10/27/2018 6:28:43 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: yoe

I hope no taxpayer money was spent on a study to determine this.

At 5:55 a.m. every morning one cat is marching back and forth across my chest, and another one is licking my nose.


69 posted on 10/27/2018 6:37:58 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Do not discount anything in which Donald Trump is involved." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Dr. Sivana

i i spaced it and didn’t register that you said ‘as smart as his owner’- That’s what i get for speed reading=-


70 posted on 10/27/2018 7:21:49 PM PDT by Bob434
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