How do they know?

[Baxter'smybaby]

How do the dogs possibly know how to tell time? Baxter is prancing around me, doing his best to let me know that it is two minute past dinner time. Seriously--I have done nothing to indicate the time, our usual routine is different today---so how the heck does he know that it is time?
I could think his stomach tells him so...but is his stomach really THAT tuned in that it is to the minute for dinner time?
:lol-sign: oh well--I suppose I should go feed them.

 

[MicksMom]

Isn't it amazing? For the longest time, Caleb associated "The Beverly Hillbillies" with dinner- when he heard the theme song, he'd start bugging me. But now it's a cr*p shoot what I'm watching at dinner time. Yet he still comes poking at me around 6PM. It really has to be an internal body clock- the kids at work are the same way. If I've lost track of time, all I have to do is look where they line up for lunch to see if they've lined themselves up.

 

[bubbatd]

It's always fascinated me ! Ollie tells me when the 6 pm news comes on . Has to be the news as during the time changes he adjusts /

 

[Baxter'smybaby]

ah see--that is the thing--there is no show, or any activity that he could have associated with dinner time today--and his body is still not adjusted to the time change--he just knows what time it is! LOL

 

[MPP]

Possibly they have little doggie watches strapped to their wrists? :lol-sign:

 

[MicksMom]

Speaking of those internal clocks- guess who just came in and nudge my elbow to let me know it's dinner time?

 

[Baxter'smybaby]

Possibly they have little doggie watches strapped to their wrists? :lol-sign:

:rofl1::rofl1: I can picture Baxter now checking his wrist watch....:lol-sign:

 

[Southpaw]

It's the weirdest thing haha. I have no set schedule during the day and yet Juno still knows when it's 6 and time for dinner. Even on days like today, I fed her lunch an hour later because we were out and about.... and yet at 6, there she was sitting in the kitchen staring at her food dish.

 

[Brattina88]

I'll be checking for watches here as well! Maybe they're hidden under the hair
that is a good question - how do thy know??? I've finally gotten Maddie to allow me to sleep in on the weekends and feed breakfast an hour or so later. Took me a long time. But dinner? Regular as clockwork, she tells me!

 

[jasmom87]

My last dog knew when I was coming home. My husband said that within 3 minutes of me pulling in the driveway, she would start watching out the window and doing her talk. The weird thing is with traffic and working late, my schedule could vary by an hour. She rarely didn't know. It was the weirdest thing.

 

[PlottMom]

This is why I feed at different hours *all the time* heh. But if I got to the freezer for anything, or happen to have a plastic bag with me, they all get excited and start prancing around after me anyway, sooo...

 

[ricky]

Every living creature on earth has biological clock , attached with it. so if anything goes out of routine than this biological clock alarms us.

 

[4dogs3cats]

My dogs are funny. When I get home from work, Bailey hops around by her bowl to let me know. But if I go back out, and come back, like to check the mail, the second I walk back in my room, she dances again, as if to say, "Oh hi! You is back now! Time to eat! Just ate? No. You must be confused. Get the food please!"

I just look at her and say, "Silly girl you JUST ate!" and she usually gives up lol

 

[Dreeza]

This is why I feed at different hours *all the time* heh.

haha, same. Not on purpose...I'm just incapable of keeping a schedule.


And maybe he just looks at your clock??

 

[ACooper]

It IS funny isn't it? Phoebe isn't pushy, she's quite patient in all things so she never 'reminds' us about dinner time or anything much......but Orson is another story.

He reminds me in the morning, Zac gets on the bus at 8 then I feed the dogs, so I can understand Orson knowing THAT one...........but he does it on the weekends too! No school involved, but 8 sharp comes and there's no food? Uh oh........he is ON IT! LOL

In the evening at 6........same thing, no matter WHAT the routine for the day has been. Also, about 5 till 5 he is waiting around the front door for 'daddy' to pull up through the week. Amazing is the best I can describe it, LOL