Can dogs tell what day it is?

Rivrrat
Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
edited April 2008 in The Clubhouse
Every Fri afternoon, I come home from work, go outside, have a few beers and a good cigar. Our dog loves to come out, cause he knows he'll get a bit of beer if he's persistent enough.

Now, I only do that on Fridays, I don't drink during the work week at all. All week long when I come home from work, he just sort of acknowleges I came home (he's old). But on Fri's after I change, he's ready to go, whether I have a beer in my hand or not.

Today, as soon as I got home and changed, he was doing the dance to go outside, and was woofing at me. But, I have some puter stuff to do before I go out, and he's laying on the floor waiting and looking at me.


Can they really tell stuff like that?
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited April 2008
    'Conditioned response' is the term, I think. Or he has to go pee?
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited April 2008
    Rivrrat wrote: »
    Can they really tell stuff like that?

    Oh yes, I think they know. I believe scientists have no answer for it though.
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  • rskarvan
    rskarvan Posts: 2,374
    edited April 2008
    Dog's are master-sleuth investigators. You probably do something very subtle that the dog has queued-in on to let him know that he gets to go outside. Maybe you come home and say... TGIF and the dog has learned to associate that with going outside.

    Alternatively, maybe he just counts the nights through the week.

    Or, maybe on Friday the ice-cream truck comes-by playing their theme-song and he knows that means he gets to go outside that evening.

    Or, maybe on Friday at Lunch-time, your wife has a boyfriend over and to the dog that means he gets to go outside that evening.
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited April 2008
    He's spotted your Friday "tell".........you are the one that is different on Friday eve, not him, he's just responding to your increased relaxation.
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited April 2008
    Dennis Gardner wrote: »
    He's spotted your Friday "tell".........you are the one that is different on Friday eve, not him, he's just responding to your increased relaxation.


    Pretty damned observant dog. Although you're probably right.
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited April 2008
    Check your dog into rehab.
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited April 2008
    My dogs definitely know. They notice everything. They can sense little nuances of your body chemistry or slight alterations in the way you act on Fridays. They know!
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  • I-SIG
    I-SIG Posts: 2,243
    edited April 2008
    Between about 445 and 630 my dog starts to get antsy because she knows it'sa time to go for walk. This is a daily thing, but still, it's almost on cue.

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  • Polk addict
    Polk addict Posts: 558
    edited April 2008
    Shizelbs wrote: »
    Check your dog into rehab.

    Yeah, everybody else is doing it
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited April 2008
    Dogs are a lot more 'in-tune' with what's going on than we are. I remember hearing a story a while back about a dog that saved 2 kids whose blood sugar was out of whack, and nobody in the family noticed. But that dog knew SOMETHING wasn't right.
    They're even experimenting with dogs to find cancer early.
    Creepy. If they learn to talk, we're screwed.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,605
    edited April 2008
    Dennis Gardner wrote: »
    He's spotted your Friday "tell".........you are the one that is different on Friday eve, not him, he's just responding to your increased relaxation.

    That's why you never want to play a hand against man's best friend!
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited April 2008
    Dennis Gardner wrote: »
    He's spotted your Friday "tell".........you are the one that is different on Friday eve, not him, he's just responding to your increased relaxation.

    and Bingo was his name-o!
    Never Forget
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  • dragon1952
    dragon1952 Posts: 4,907
    edited April 2008
    Have a beer in the middle of the week and really screw him up :D
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,002
    edited April 2008
    Maybe he's telling you to pay more attention to him than one day a week.:)
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  • doctor r
    doctor r Posts: 837
    edited April 2008
    Habits, its all about habits for our best friends (and my patients). He knows a consistant pattern and is looking forward to that Friday beer as much, if not more than you are. (Then again I guess you have the same habit as he does?)
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited April 2008
    Yeah, it's either that or on Fridays you're putting out a certain "stink" that you don't put out on other days.
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