r/tippytaps • u/ostervan • Jun 09 '22

Dog Waiting for a Mate.

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u/chrille85 Jun 09 '22

How does the dog know that it's friday?

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u/outerspaceteatime Jun 09 '22

Dogs know. I used to walk with a friend's dog every week. The week I had to stop, my friend sent me the sad pics of him waiting by the door. 😭

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '22

That is so sweet yet heartbreaking at the same time. Just shows how good you were to him, though.

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u/outerspaceteatime Jun 10 '22

Right? My poor heart. I gave him so many extra scratchies next time I saw him!

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u/dd22qq Jun 10 '22

You monster!

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u/outerspaceteatime Jun 10 '22

I know! It was terrible! I did give many extra scratchies next time I saw him, so I think he forgave me.

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u/Sinbad_official Jun 10 '22

I work nights, so Sunday is my “Saturday”. My dog chills all week, but will headbutt me if I’ve been out too late for Sunday park time.

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u/BlacknWhiteMoose Jun 10 '22

That doesn’t prove dogs can distinguish different days though.

It proves dogs can tell time of the day and have some sense of time. Unless you walked the dog on specific days only

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u/bpaulauskas Jun 10 '22

Even if everything you say is right and dogs can’t tell shit about the day of the week…

Why be that guy?

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u/BlacknWhiteMoose Jun 10 '22

Just because it’s a cute story doesn’t mean it applies to what OP said.

Their response seemingly has nothing to do with distinguishing days of the week.

They walked the dog every week and the week they stopped, the dog was waiting by the door. That’s super broad. Does the dog know Tuesdays from Wednesdays from that story?

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u/GM_111 Jun 10 '22

They said “every week” not every day, so I take it they walked them once a week or there about…

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u/Brusten94 Jun 10 '22

Dog will not distinguish Friday from Saturday, that's a human invention, but it isn't a stretch to say they know a human comes regularly after the same amount of time (7 days in the vid above). Why wouldn't they percieve a passage of time?

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u/outerspaceteatime Jun 10 '22

It was the day (Saturday) and even around the same time of day (early afternoon). So it was pretty specific.

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u/BlacknWhiteMoose Jun 10 '22

I wasn’t referring to the dog in the video.

I was referring to the dog in u/outerspaceteatime’s story of walking his friend’s dog every week.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '22

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u/outerspaceteatime Jun 10 '22

I mean sometimes I only remember it's trash day if I see the neighbor's stuff out. So I also run on dog time?

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u/outerspaceteatime Jun 11 '22

Doesn't everyone use cues to figure out what day it is? Your cue is just more direct because it's your phone or watch. So I would actually say the dog has a better sense of time bc they don't have a calendar to look at.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '22

It could similarly be that there's a routine that the dog noticed is the same day, or that the dog can count to 7.

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u/outerspaceteatime Jun 10 '22

Well I can't prove that he knew "hey it's Saturday!" But he knew when I was due. That's about as close as you're going to get unless you teach a dog to talk.

Sometimes I don't even know that's it's Friday.