do dogs have a sense of timing?

Question

i swear my dog does, he wakes up before 6 and hes stands at my mom's bed room door, and when i'm at school hes in the bush with my dad, and its pretty far away, and imediatly at about 3:10 he leaves and goes to the drive way and waits for me to come home.

Answer 1

Dog's sense of time: It has been hypothesized that dog's notion of time (and its elapse) is not so much chronological as it is based on a biological rhythm that is linked to their terrific skills of memory association. We humans are often amazed at the ability our dogs have to anticipate the daily arrival of their masters from work or the kids from school. And how is it that they know what hour to wake up every morning summer or winter? How is it that dogs can tell the time? Dogs have been known to show up at a train station everyday at the same hour to receive their returning masters and everyone who has a dog knows that when meal times role around their dog shows up no matter where it was or what it was doing. So how is it that our dogs are able to know when it is time for certain things to happen or take place? One clue is that they live in a world predominately made up of humans and we

humans are generally quite predictable, waking and sleeping at certain hours, eating at certain set times, leaving and returning home at certain set times, etc…
One thing that we do know is that dogs over time build up a tremendous wealth of memory association cue. And they perceive the slightest changes and actions around them. By interpreting the multitudes of sensations around them such as the smells, amount of ambient light, actions of the people around them, turning on of artificial house lights, food preparations, etc… they are able to make decisions and act accordingly. Although we cannot deny the possibility of some special and unknown sense within dogs that allows them to know the time of day what we do know is that using the senses that are available to them and by picking up and processing the information that is all around them they are able to act and/or react in a surprisingly accurate and predictable way.


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Answer 2

They don't sense time in the way that we do, like 10:00 am or 2:15, but animals have habit patterns as to am, pm, dawn, dusk, full sun, feeding time, or any thing that is repeatedly beneficial that happens at the same time.

So, yes, they do sense time.

There is a pattern with in nature that all animals sense. Fall they start putting on an under coat. Spring they shed.

In the oceans the big fish know when & where there is going to be a large swarm of smaller fish.

Crocks seem to gether when it is time for the hoofed animals to drink. It happens the same time each day.

Answer 3

To be honest, I believe they do, but if your dog is outside around that time he can usually tell when you are coming home, by something that happens everyday before you come, like the sound of your school bus coming down the road, and then he will wait for you.

Answer 4

i myself choose i ought to undergo in concepts how my canines behaved as quickly as we *for particular* had a spirit in our residing house. Our residing house replaced right into a typical haunted residing house for some years. the former vendors became it right into a condominium which had an exceedingly complicated time staying rented, so the ended up dumping it for pennies on the greenback and right here we are 22 years in this 60+ 365 days previous residing house. the unique vendors enjoyed this "cabin" and whilst the spouse died, she of course refused to go away. The looking's was somewhat everyday and stressful. I do remember the canines barking on the noisier occurrences. yet unluckily, I "have been given over it" and finally had a talk with our ghost. I had heard approximately attempting this from some ghost coach, and amazingly, it worked. I advised our ghost that this replaced into now our residing house, the place we are residing. we'd proportion the residing house together with her, she ought to stay if she needed, however the antics had to stop. ........ They did. Our canines nonetheless *hold forth* at unseen issues to our eyes. those must be raccoons or different critters outdoors.... or, who knows? particular, I do have self belief canines can experience spirits. We at the instant visited Savannah, GA, who's downtown is very full of spirits.... and my Jazzie lady replaced into somewhat ill comfy, to assert the least! ..... of direction, this may well be due partly to the unfamiliar city placing. unluckily..... have a talk along with your ghost & see if that settles your canines.

Answer 5

Defiantly. They know what is going on and they learn that pretty quick
I guess they have to otherwise in the wild they would not know that it was hunting time and where to find it.
They just have the same instincts it is just much easier for them. They know where there bread is buttered, and when it comes to food you can get a dog to do anything!!!

Answer 6

See if he's an hour behind with Daylight Savings Time tomorrow. It usually takes my dog a while to adjust when the time changes.

Answer 7

I have no scientific testimony for you but my little brothers dog ONLY scratches and jumps on the door when it is time for him to walk down the driveway to catch the bus, the dog is also there when he gets home to walk him up the driveway.

Answer 8

They say dogs have a sixth sense so yes I'd say it's a sense of timing also.
My dog the same things from time to time.

Answer 9

I think they do have an internal clock. My dog is always sitting infront of the window when I pull into the parking lot.

Answer 10

my dog could serve as a clock- you can tell time by what he is chosing to do