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Poohmika, I’d like to ask a question. Could you please provide the scientific proof that dogs do not experience time passage as we do? I’m a scientific thinker, and i would so like to believe you, so I’d like some help. It would simplify my own life it were true, but I can’t find it online. Thanks for your info.
He’s 21 and is a friend of our sone. He’s made the comment that "He hates the dog" but does not do anything to him (in our presence). I just have a gut feeling he may have at least "lunged at him" or something to make him go away because of the barking….but maybe worse than that?
I think it’s cruel to put a dog away like a toy and remove it from the box when you are ready. They indeed do have a sense of time…perhaps different from ours. But they also have the need to run, play and stretch like any animal. The thought that my dog might need to go pee or stretch but is forcing himself back to sleep to cope with a kennel for 8 hours seems very selfish. Even when I had little money, I searched till I found someone to barter dog-time with. The friend came by in the middle of my work-day to walk my dogs for an hour. In exchange I washed and walked his dogs and bought their food occasionally on weekends. I also, as one poster said, did not like someone in my house when I was not home, so I took the trouble to lock one closet with stuff in it. My dogs were worth the trouble.
I worked toward a life for my dogs as I worked toward a nice life for myself. Now, they have a fenced yard that I have just paid off, and a dog door where they can come and go while I am away. We are both very happy with the arrangement. Took a while to get here, but they were worth it to me. I took the responsibility when I adopted them to give them a decent life. That’s my opinion. I may seem hard-lined on the compassion front, but these animals are capable of unconditional love….I think we could learn from them. NancyI keep seeing posts that say a dog does not have a concept of time. Does anyone know of a dog behavior test that taught this to the experts and why it was determined? I know if I walk out for 15 minutes, my dogs don’t do much…but if I am gone all day they jump and bark (greetings) like crazy as though they are very happy to see me. So, how do we know they have absolutely no concept of time? I would be interested to know how that was determined. just wondering.
