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[–] [email protected] 143 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I've seen pretty a dump dog understand elevators well enough to run down the stairs to follow someone that had just gotten into an elevator.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They can probably hear much more clearly than we can that it’s a box moving around on rails in a giant echo tube.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago

Dogs do have a concept of gravity, they can feel the movement of the floor.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Sidenote, but most elevators don't use a rail to move (although might use one for stability plus something to apply emergency brakes against), it's usually wires lifting them

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While I've never been able to ask a dog myself, I'd imagine they can smell the changing space.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)

dude they can feel the movement, same as you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but do they KNOW they are moving up or down? Or do they just feel the room shake and suddenly they're in a different place?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the accelleration, dear. like when a car speeds up? you get the same thing in an elevator. it's probably still kinda weird.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yes but we know it's moving up and down, for all they know they get heavier or lighter for a short while

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

No no, definitely the smell /s

[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

do regular dogs go all like 'o shit its the cops' when they see a police dog, or is it just another dog to them?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't do anything illegal don't do anything illegal don't do anything illegal SQUIRREL!! Ah crap I did it again...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Violations of the Dog-Squirrel treaty of 2014 is no laughing matter

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That treaty is a sham and everyone knows it. The squirrels had no right to annex Caninea.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Protest dogs are pretty good at recognizing cops vs protesters. Better than people sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Long live the memory of Negro Matapacos, greatest of allies. (Loukanikos was also a very good boy)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dogs don't have much in the way of spacial reasoning or logic, possibly due to over reliance on smells and sounds for navigation.

When the doors open and things look different they might be surprised but they quickly forget what the previous floor even looked like. It's as bewildering or thought provoking them as simply turning a corner would be. They don't understand it enough to even be bewildered.

That said, there are interpersonal difference to dogs, some of them might be more than smart enough to get quite confused.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

My dog loves getting on busses and the tube. I think he just finds it exciting to see where we'll appear, it's pretty great, until you're not paying attention and he jumps on a random bus.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is a documentary about dogs in some city using public transit to get around. Pretty sure that they remember where they are or were to some extent.

Not to say that they understand elevators. It's probably just another room or hallway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm sure they understand that the bus moves due to the many many windows and can take them to a specific place, but they could still just be navigating by scent and other factors. It's not a good comparison to an elevator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

My only point was that they are remembering where they are or were. They didn't forget everything because they turned a corner.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 days ago (5 children)

People have to stop acting like animals are the stupidest most thoughtless creatures.

Yeah, most dogs probably understand it perfectly fine because it isn't a great mystery. They go in a room, they feel the acceleration, they feel the deceleration, they go out.

Sure, first time they are probably confused, but they are not completely oblivious to the world around them.

Also, yeah, this post is funny

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Tbf people act like people are the stupidest creatures too. Especially historically speaking.

"How in the world could these complete and utter dumbasses figure out how to build giant piles of dirt in a specific shape? It must be aliens cause there is simply no way those idiots could figure that out on their own."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Especially if these people had a skin color any shade darker than white

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ive seen dogs get scared of their own farts…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not really saying much, I've seen adults do the same

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't believe any of the 3 dogs I've had were ever in an elevator. Never thought about that before.

But while vacationing on Maui for a few weeks, toward the end my 4-yo daughter asked, "When are we going back to the real world?"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I hope you told her that consensus reality is a social construct and the real world doesn't exist outside of being an agreement by society to promote certain values and interpretations.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Well of course I did, whaddya think I am, some kinda idjit?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The tweet that inspired Ben Stiller to start Severance

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Season 3: Take your pet to work day.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My dog loves the elevator, definitely cant tell the difference since both floors are the same, keeps going to our downstairs neighbors door like its our own before smelling it and realising her mistake.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean... I also went into my neibours apartment a couple times by mistake.

Looking at my dog, I think he understands elevators. Maybe not that why it goes, but probably does that it goes. Sometimes I think animals have better spatial awaerness then humans.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some do, many don't. Humans are actually really graceful compared to most animals and intuitively do very complex things in space. Tossing a paper ball into a garbage can from ten feet away is an almost uniquely human ability. You ever see a dog try to fit a long stick through a narrow door? Their ability to judge relative sizes and distance is terrible, comparatively.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have seen too many videos of small monkeys and big apes throwing their dong to agree with your paper ball theory. Also frogs don't throw balls but are great at catching insects, a lot of other animals have great spatial awareness when it comes to hunting prey. But tbh, I doubt wether they could grasp the concept of a box going up and down like humans do.

Have seen too many videos of dogs trying to take long sticks through narrow doors to disagree with you there though. Personally I think dogs are just not that smart after all that (in)breeding we did. I'm not calling dogs stupid, don't want the world to dislike me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Frogs and archerfish and chameleons and such have evolved to do that one thing, it's more like a preprogrammed algorithm than spacial awareness. And they miss a fair amount if you sit and watch them, that just doesn't make the Animal Planet highlight reel.

Speaking of highlight reels, that kind of confirmation bias also applies to poop-slinging monkeys. They literally don't have the musculature for fine control, they just throw a lot of shit.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I was at a festival years ago and a couple was sat next to me with a dog that looked like a German Shepherd cross that was clearly on edge, looking around at the crowd walking by. Then a guy with a kid on his shoulders came near. All you could see at first was the guys shoulders and the kid's head above his. You couldn't see the kid's legs because the guy had his arms wrapped around them. The dog jumped up and started barking its head off at them. Until they got to the point where you could see them side on. As soon as the dog realised what was going on it immediately stopped barking and sat back down. I've often wondered what that dog thought was going on at first.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

"WHY IS NOBODY REACTING TO THIS ABOMINATION???"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

Human, human, human, HUMANTAUR, human, human, ...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Will Smith: “Can a dog compose a symphony or paint a great work of art?”

Incarcerated robot: “Can you?”

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My dog definitely knows it’s moving and she hates it.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I know there are dogs that understand how to use the subway, which is basically a horizontal elevator.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Advancing from world 1-2 to world 1-3

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Friend, I don't understand elevators.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)
  1. Animals understand the world in a lot more detail and depth than we give them credit for. We get caught up in a lot of big brain nonsense, some of which is useful sure, but a lot of the basics, they’re well on top of. They’re not stupid, they just don’t have language or hands.
  2. I feel like a lot of human stuff is just total incomprehensible magic to cats and dogs. Cats clearly think humans can change the weather, or it might be different weather at a different door. Because why wouldn’t it be? You guys control the light switches and the doors and cars and stuff. Why would the weather be different? There’s stuff in my domain and then all the world change stuff is your domain. It’s cool, we can still be buds.

Idk man, pick one.

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