Do dogs have good memory?

Question

Can dogs remember things? If so, for how long? Do they remember things when they were young?

Answer 1

Interesting question. I'm doing a dog psychology course at the mo, and I've jut come across this very subject!

Dogs are thought to have very long memories, similar to ours. There are 3 types of memory; short-term (can hold unrehearsed info for around 30 seconds) sensory memory (which can hold fleeting impressions and be triggered by a sound or smell) and long-term memory, which has infinite capacity and length of storage.

Basically, dog's memories are thought to be much like our own, although of course they can't convey that to us. But dogs can display evidence of memory years after the event; most usually traumatic events - this is how phobias can last a dog's lifetime, because the original event can stay in a dog's memory indefinitely.

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Answer 2

Do Dogs Have Memory

Answer 3

I totally disagree with Nancy M. Dogs do have a good and long memory. If you ever talk to people who worked with dog psykology or behavior training you'll learn that dogs come with a bagage too sometimes. Once dog has become traumatic about something it can take a long time to heal. OTOH, just like humans, dog can learns to *handle* their fears, which is not the same as forgetting all about what caused the trauma.
Of course dogs can also remember good things. They recognize places they have seen before and had fun. Like a dog returning to sea coast after a long winter. They remember having been there and that it was fun last year. The remember where they hid something earlier on or where to look for something that is supposed to be in a specific spot.
And like with humans, they can do memory training. Repatative work with dog's mental condition, as well as its physical condition, will improve their memory and keep it in tact for as long as they live. Most dogs have exellent memory of both good and bad things.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Dogs are one of the most common pets world wide. Because of this, it makes sense that there are many different dog training methods out there. Unfortunately, most of these training methods are less than ideal to use for your pet.

Because of all of these differing dog training methods out there, many new pet owners get confused which to follow and even start using methods that are highly inaccurate or counter-productive for their pets. This article will show you the top three dog training methods that you should avoid like the plague!

Method 1: Using Punishment as Training

You'd be surprised how many pet owners use punishment as their "bread and butter" for obedience training. Unfortunately, as with bread and butter, this is one of those dog training methods that is very "unhealthy" for both you and your pet.

Think about it. When you punish anything, whether it's a dog or a human being, you're using negative energy. It's like you're a dictator and your pet is your slave. This is a very negative relationship between both and will only lead to problems in the future.

You want to establish a positive, loving relationship with your dog. Punishment is NOT how to do it. There are much more effective training approaches out there that work much better.

Method 2: The "One Person in the House Trains the Dog" Method

I couldn't think of a more creative title so I just named it the most descriptive title! Basically this is one of those common dog training methods that people follow without even realizing it! Here's a common scenario:

There is one dog and multiple people in the house that play with, feed, and take care of the dog. Out of those many people, only one actually trains the dog to listen and obey them. The others merely play with the dog.

This dynamic is highly ineffective if you are serious about training your dog. The reason is that only one person training a dog, no matter how great their training skills are, will not get the dog to listen to everybody. The dog will realize that it needs to behave around one person, but know that the other people don't care. Dogs are smart! They know who the "dominant" people are and who they can get away with more "mischief" with.

I've seen this problem happen with many pet owners where they try really hard to train their pet but cannot achieve any results. The reason is often that while one person is trying to train their pet to not do one thing, the other people in the house are actually rewarding the very thing!

An example of this is when dogs jump on people. This is not good behavior and one person could be training them to stop this. At the same time, another family member may think it's cute and pet and cuddle them after they do this. What's a dog to think when different reactions happen with different people?

Method 3: Following No Dog Training Methods - Using Intuition

I know many pet owners that think that because they have children and successfully raised them that they can get their dog to listen to them as well! Aside from the big ego, this approach assumes that dogs learn exactly the same way that humans learn.

While this is true to some extent, dogs are dogs and people are people. Different approaches are needed for different animals. While they may be more subtle than training a giraffe, they are still there and have a big impact on the results you'll see.

It is important to understand exactly what you are teaching your pets to do and not to do. If you don't, you may very well end up doing things counter-productive.

The best solution to this is to pick up a book or go find some training course out there that has a depth of coverage on the topic.

Other Poor Methods of Approach

If you've been trying to train your dog for a few weeks now and haven't seen any real results then I'm pretty sure that you're following a "Method to Avoid" approach. While I only listed three methods, there are thousands of other approaches that don't work. Take the results that you are getting as a signal if you are using a good method or a poor one. If you haven't seen any good results from your approach, move on and try another one.

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Answer 8

Nope, dogs, like many animals, have little memory of events -- there are instances that might have been extreemly traumatic in specific periods of time that allow for them to be traumatised easily so they recall a fear but that is about it. They don't actually connect cognitively from one thing to another - like if they do something wrong and you find out seconds later and call them to you and reprimand them, they aren't recalling the bad thing they did but the fact that they came to you and are connecting the reprimand with coming to you -- this is a common mistake made by humans :) People like to give dogs human qualities (good and bad) that they simply don't have and 'remembering' vague things gone by isn't something they do... they don't 'remember' their littermates as littermates or their mother as their mother or things like that -- they can recall and acknowledge familiarity with another animal that they may have spent a lot of time with though particularly if the association is reinforced from time to time. They can let go of connections though fairly quickly if they learn differently -- so if they 'know' a specific animal for a long time as a friendly/non-threatening one and this is reinforced and then the animal behaves in a threatening manner, they can let that go with the next encounter if the animal goes back to their non-threatening manner -- they don't hold onto or have 'grudges' like humans do. They respond to how things are now.

add: Training or trained response isn't the same as 'remembering' in the human sense. Remembering in the sense of having a conscience is not what dogs do. They learn through repetition and with an expected response, this is almost a sort of programed situation and not necessarily remembering. Animals behave out of needs not remeniscence. People have the capability to 'remember' AN event that impacted their lives in a positive, negative or even a pretty non-eventful way... dogs do not.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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