Mystery solved:
Smart dog.
Posted on 03/02/2015 10:55:47 AM PST by Red Badger
Our late, great cocker spaniel Chelsea had once been mistreated by a gas station attendant. (Remember those?) Consequently, she went berserk whenever time we approached a gas station. Maybe it was the smell of gasoline that triggered the association. She must have been a descendant of Pavlov’s dog.
I’ve had the same thing happen to me.
I’ve had the same thing happen to me.
“Dogs don’t remember what happened yesterday and don’t plan for tomorrow.”
Ah, so Cesar Milan agrees: “dogs only live in the present”. He sees it as they don’t care; scientists see it as they don’t remember specific things from the past.
It is a specific kind of memory he is discussing.
And you are talking about, Georgie, who taught himself to push a dining room chair into the kitchen so he could easily climb onto the counterinsurgency and clear them of all available bread, marinating meats and sweets!
Dadgum dog taught himself how to create a tool!
You need to read the article.
The man references his dogs almost immediately and through the whole thing.
Never mind all the comments about them having memory - it is SPECIFIC memory type discussed.
And furthermore, I volunteer George’s services to prove that dogs DO remember.
Payyment will be a slice of turkey shredded on breakfast and dinner and a pig ear, cut into 4 pieces to be spread out during the day.
And a belly rub.
Anyone who has rescued abused dogs would call this BS.
I’ve had dogs who had the canine form of PTSD.
They remembered all their yesterdays, alright.
There has been a deluge of anti-dog propaganda, of late.
This, to me, goes hand in hand with the all the pro-Islam drivel.
Our dogs are part of their conquest agenda.
My Ibizan Hound stands on the arm of the sofa and obnoxiously admires herself in the mirror on the wall adjacent.
She poses, wags her tail and then barks at me to see if I’m watching this vulgar display of vanity.
OTOH, Seven, the Dobe, saw her reflection the first time in a PetCo bathroom mirror.
She went ballistic over that “other dog” who was standing so perilously near me.
When I touched the mirror dog’s head and then hers, she stopped barking and “high fived” the dog in the mirror, instead.
This article is rubbish.
Horse hockey! My little dog still sits at the edge of the deck waiting for his mentor to come home, even though we put her down 9 years ago. He also looks for his two proteges, though they’ve been gone for 3 years.
He also pines for the kitty, too.
Baloney and hogwash dogs don’t remember. How else could we train them, FCOL?
I know my dogs are smarter than my snakes and even they seem to have a sense of time and anticipation.
For 8 months, I fed them all on Friday night.
When summer came and I was out on the bike all weekend, I switched their dinner night to Sunday.
Years later, every Friday, without fail, they all get up and roam their enclosures, expecting to be fed.
At first I thought they were just reacting to the smell of their chow being thawed but after several months of *nothing* being thawed and no familiar movements on Friday, it became apparent that they “learned Friday” and somehow managed to “tell time” or “count days”.
I have no idea how but I see it every week.
The snakes I got *after* the initial Friday night schedule get up and start to eagerly roam early Sunday morning, waiting for the evening when they actually do eat.
And snakes are not nearly as smart as dogs.
Your story is very touching.
Maybe he smelled them?
I don’t think he’s ever been anywhere near a dog in his whole life.
Was thinking the same thing.
I had a dog that needed to be trained to use a little foot stool to get on my bed. It took time but finally she remembered - jump on foot stool then you can jump on the bed.
When I shake the bag of treats my fog knew what it was and freaked out accordingly. She remembered, didn’t she?
BS, they just don’t remember what does not matter.
Mine is 11 months old. She has not figured out guilt yet. LOL, She’s rarely alone. We don’t trust the cats or her to get along.
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