- At work I often learned the full names and other details about dozens of coworkers, customers, whatever, even if I didn't need to know.by AStonesThrow - 1 week ago
A few years after leaving wherever, I begin to forget even the simplest names, and I consider this as a blessing, as if Agent K set the flashy-thing in my eyes and I've returned to an ordinary life.
- My parents dog tends to not eat his food unless they start pretending that his friend poppy, who died years ago and who used to love eating his food, is at the door. He panics and eats up his bowl, lifting his head up anxiously to look at the door every few mouthfuls.by nanna - 1 week ago
- It's not too surprising as they (in movies and also my dog) respond well after years to just the call of names of people they had a deeper relationship with. So if we associate the name of a toy, eg. "go get the penguin" and they played with it for long period of time, it makes sense that they form a relationship with the toy as well and had memories of it. Dogs dream (I imagine the noise and movements they make while sleeping are dreams), and I won't doubt they dream about owners playing with them and calling out the toy's name and thus reinforcing the name in their memories.by fuzzythinker - 1 week ago
- I've had my Labrador for 12 years, she was about 1 when we rescued her.by petepete - 1 week ago
In the first week I was walking her and passed a bus stop mainly used by school kids. There's a small wall behind it and she dashed around and emerged with half a sausage roll hanging out of her mouth.
To this day, every time we pass that spot she enthusiastically pulls and goes round to inspect.
- Is it possible the names of the toys were fitting, like Kiki and Bouba? It would be interesting to see result where the toys had the same names but the dogs had never learned them.by raldi - 1 week ago
- Orwell wrote two books which purported to sketch different societies from his own mid-century english one:by 082349872349872 - 1 week ago
In 1984, the inner party sell the story of "english socialism", although closer inspection reveals a tripartite distinction in which they (nomenklatura) derive most of the benefit from a system administered by the outer party (apparatchiks, kept on a tight leash) and staffed by the proles (who have more freedom than outer party members, because, well, they're harmless).
In Animal Farm, the pigs sell the story of "animalism", although closer inspection reveals a tripartite distinction in which they derive most of the benefit from a system administered by the dogs and staffed by the other animals.
In 1984, the distinction between inner and outer party is in theory not a matter of family background, but depends merely upon performance on standardised exams during adolescence.
If we can push the loose parallels between the two works, then we'd expect that according to Orwell's model of animals, while pigs are the brightest among the domesticated species, dogs are not far behind in intellect? Do we expect he'd have been surprised at TFA's reporting?
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(I know dogs buy into The House Rules so much that they can be remarkably guilty-looking if you run across clear evidence of them having done something they were supposed not to do; the question Venkatesh Rao might ask is if any dogs ever attempt to shift the blame onto another critter?)
- I remember how happy our Golden Retriever was after digging up his Kong toy buried in the dirt in the backyard from eons ago. He liked hiding bones out there, and he had several Kong toys laying around the house and yard, but this dirty earthy Kong toy must have gone missing and when he dug it up it was like he struck oil.by smittywerben - 1 week ago
- Our dog a shitzu cross can remember multiple toy names, and go find the specific one.by quintes - 1 week ago
Dogs are the best man
- It always bothers me how little intelligence we assume of and thus ascribe to the animal kingdom.by jumploops - 1 week ago
Especially to our mammalian brethren, who have many of the same underlying neurological mechanisms (though in differing quantities).
Dogs have co-evolved with humans for thousands of years.
Remembering names seems like a useful albeit unsurprising skill, especially when it comes to recognizing/avoiding danger.
“The bear/wolf/demon tribe is back!”
Will we ever stop looking down from our heavenly pedestal? Can we instead treat at our earthly contemporaries as different but equal?
- Wow, now release the study on how to take over control of an animal remotely.by lofaszvanitt - 1 week ago
- Here I can barely remember the browser tab I was just working on.by thelittleone - 1 week ago
- I don't believe it. Dogs' brain matter is a different shade of gray, which only remembers for six weeks.by kazinator - 1 week ago
- I used to watch a family member's dogs. One year one of the dogs got super obsessed with a toy I bought. As I was packing things up, the dog saw me put the toy in a drawer. A year later when dog was dropped off it immediately went to the room with the drawer and waited eagerly for me to open the drawer and retrieve the toy.by banana_giraffe - 1 week ago
- corollary: a toy cannot be disposed of whilst at least one dog holds a reference to it in memory.by inopinatus - 1 week ago
- I have a German shepherd. She’s 10. I’ve been buying the same toy for her for the last 10 years, jolly ball soccer ball in blue.by nyjah - 1 week ago
Probably average about 2 a year. My dog understands when it’s time for the new one. She’s ultra excited and all the sudden the old ball we have kicked and fetched every single day for 6 months, is non existent as we are on to the new one. I always get a kick out of it. She’s too funny about it.
- I've had a Mal for a couple of years now; I find myself looking for new words to describe "go" and "walk" with my s/o. We can only use the new words for so long before he catches on and the old ones don't seem to fade away. It's almost a game between us now.by imoverclocked - 1 week ago
- My dog constantly surprises me and he's only 3.5 years old.by spike021 - 1 week ago
The first year I had him as a puppy, he could smell/hear (?) his best neighborhood buddy walking multiple buildings away from our apartment while the windows were closed. He'd run to the door and start crying and as soon as we got outside he knew the right path. And his friend hadn't even walked by our building yet, so it's not like there was a trail to sniff other than whatever may have been carried by breeze.
Dogs are incredibly smart.
- Why is this surprising? Dogs are frikkin clever.by jonplackett - 1 week ago
Our old Collie could fetch different types of ball on command without really any intention training.
- I had a GSD who remembered everyone who threw a tennis ball for her. To the point that I had to warn people that if they tossed it once, she'd be dropping a tennis ball in their laps for the foreseeable future.by rongenre - 1 week ago
I miss that girl.
- "...years after (last) seeing them", or "after years of not seeing them".by Biganon - 1 week ago
- Remember names?by aj7 - 1 week ago
Dogs have egos!!
- The first author of the study -- Dr Shany Dror -- presented an excellent seminar about this paper on Cassyni.* https://doi.org/10.52843/cassyni.hwbggbby benjyk - 1 week ago
*I'm one of the founders of Cassyni
- My dog remembered a song. I may have posted before. Zuni (a lurcher) and Pasha (a greyhound) were two dogs we rescued about 12 years ago. We took two because they were together and we didn't want to split them up. Zuni was a howler. He'd howl if he heard the ice-cream truck, and Pasha would join in.by raffraffraff - 1 week ago
Now, in our house, music is playing pretty much constantly, and we always assumed that dogs either didn't understand it or didn't care about it. But whenever the Warren Zevon song "Werewolves of London" came on, my wife would try to get Zuni howling with the "Aaaaaaaah Ooooooh" bit. Every time the song would come on, she'd make the same silly joke with the dogs. Zuni would begin to howl immediately, and Pasha would join in with him.
Well, Pasha was diagnosed with bone cancer and we lost her a few months after that. Sheena couldn't bare playing the song and I intentionally avoided it. We got another greyhound as a companion for Zuni.
About a year after we got Lily, I put on a random mix and wandered around the house doing chores. Some time later I heard the first bars of Werewolves in London and immediately though "damn, I hope the wife doesn't hear this". Before I could finish the thought, Zuni was howling his head off, and racing around the house, I think, searching for Pasha.
It hadn't even gotten too the "Aaaaaaaah Ooooooh" part. Which means that he also recognised the song in the first few bars.