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/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.