[KGeorge]

Here, too, but with politics. What I would like to know is how they know when the person they're pining for leaves to come home. Whether it's long distance (hours) or across town, one of our girls nails it almost to the minute.

[skeeter]

They have caused me to at least better control my temper and clean up my language while doing-it-myself around the house, though.

[definitelynotaliberal]

I’ve seen it too in my dogsitting experiences. One dog would fast (a serious chow hound of a Golden Retriever, no less) on the last day till the door bell rang and her people came for her.

[Salamander]

I have network cameras in my house so I can see what my dogs are doing when I’m away.

Without fail, as soon as I make the decision to head home, Seven will wake up from her nap and “assume the position”....her arms over the back of the sofa, watching out the window.

20 minutes later, when I pull in, there she is, looking out the window.

We used to think she was just hearing our vehicles coming up the lane but found out she was anticipating our arrival much earlier, based solely on that moment that we decided to come home.

It’s kinda freaky.