Posted on 02/12/2022 7:57:20 PM PST by FLT-bird
This book by Rupert Sheldrake is fascinating. They did a lot of experiments having dog owners come home early, come home by cab, etc.; and the dogs still knew:
Their hearing seems more acute even then dogs. Since I am on a break from having a dog, they have been extremely useful guard animals, especially the one who dives under the bed at the sound of the gate being opened. One more thing, I believe they use sonar when tuning their ears.
‘Tuning’ or ‘Turning’?
That's true--Major immediately figured out that his new owner was a stumbling, bumbling corrupt-o-crat.
Tuning like violin strings as well as turning. One physical, the other in their brains, somehow.
I was impressed with owls when I met one ‘personally’ at a rescue outfit. THAT is ‘fine-tuned hearing’!
Some of them even have one ear set higher than the other, and faces that work like radar dishes.
(And they reminded me so much of cats!)
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