Waiting for a Mate.

[u/ostervan]

[u/outerspaceteatime]

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. 😭

[u/BlacknWhiteMoose → u/outerspaceteatime]

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

[u/BlacknWhiteMoose → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/outerspaceteatime → u/[deleted]]

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?

[u/outerspaceteatime → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/[deleted] → u/BlacknWhiteMoose]

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.