Re: dogs concept of time?
There could be something your doing that is tipping him off that the sitter is coming. Even subconscious movements, routines as if your getting ready for the sitter, could be a trigger for him to know it is a sitter day.
Re: dogs concept of time?
My cats can tell when it's 7:30...treat time. Every night, within about ten-fifteen minutes of that time, they begin to gather in anticipation. They even take up the same spots. How do they know? I don't give them any clues; sometimes I'll be online or watching a movie and they'll start staring at me, and I don't even have to look at the clock to know the time.
Re: dogs concept of time?
awww that's so cute! Smart little guy he is.
Re: dogs concept of time?
I bet he smells him coming. Dogs have an incredibly sensitive sense of smell.
My friend had a St. Bernard, and he would jump up and run to the gate and wait for her to get home. He jumped up always about five minutes before she actually arrived, which would have been the time that she walked out of the school where she worked.
Since she didn't leave at the same time every day, it must have been that he smelled her coming. St. Bernards can smell a person buried under fifty feet of snow.
Re: dogs concept of time?
His sense of smell isn't all that great. we play a game of hide the cheese where i hide cheese all over the house...and then I have to follow him around and point him in the general direction of the cheese. If I hide cheese inside my boyfriends work shoes...the dog can never find it in there, lol.
Re: dogs concept of time?
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Peanut_Butter
His sense of smell isn't all that great. we play a game of hide the cheese where i hide cheese all over the house...and then I have to follow him around and point him in the general direction of the cheese. If I hide cheese inside my boyfriends work shoes...the dog can never find it in there, lol.
He may know its there, he may just not want to go there for obvious reasons :D
Re: dogs concept of time?
Animals do have time concept down, maybe not to the minute, but they can see when the sun is located and figure out how the general idea. I think its under estimating an animals intelligence to say they don't know what time it is.
May animals do look at clocks and see repeating patterns of when things happen or sequins of evens every day. They have some concept of time.
Re: dogs concept of time?
On a related note- the dogs and cats at my friend's place in Montana (one being my dog) KNEW when someone was getting ready to make a long trip- the obvious giveaway clue was luggage being brought out and packed....But sometimes my dog would pick up on it days before I would get ready to leave. (I think he sensed my sadness at having to leave him.)
And sometimes the cats would shit & piss on luggage....Or get inside and refuse to budge. LOL Ah, cats.
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Huh... the only reason my cats know what time they're being fed is because they tell me. Loudly.
Re: dogs concept of time?
Pets know when people are coming over esp when their owners are coming home coz they are intuitive or even psychic.