Bodhi knows when it's time for dinner.
I feed him every night at six.
We don't start making dinner until after he eats.
There aren't any clues for him like us being in the kitchen and clanking pots around.
He sits in the hall outside the kitchen and stares at me from about quarter to six until six or ten after if I'm busy with something else.
Last week with the change to day light savings time, he wasn't thrown off.
Quarter to six, he was sitting in the hall, staring, even though it was quarter to five his body time.
Uncanny!

My Husky goes out every evening at 8:30pm then off to bed he goes..

The routine did not change with time change.. He is taken out at 8:30pm then he is ready for bed..

They seem to know th routine in the home..

Well, the other day Luka had the runs when I walked him around 7am - When we got home I told him he wasn't getting any food until midday and that he should go to bed till 12. He actually went to straight to bed and woke up at 12.05 and wouldn't leave me alone until I got up and got his food ready lol!

Everyone in the house was laughing, telling me that I was the one who told him 12 o clock in the first place!

My two also know when supper will be and that usually when they go out at night, the next step is bedtime. lol Smart pups!

they are very smart and that's why im all about routine with them then they try to trick us by sitting in the cage like did not get feed!

Yep, ours can tell time too! Routine, routine, routine! Like today, I'm working from home, and Mya's totally thrown off. She always acts CRAZY when I'm home during the week and Ivan is not. She jumps on me constantly, jumps at the door, whines, and basically doesn't let me work. Very annoying.

They know when it's dinner time for them (at 6pm), they know that on the weekends they can't ask for their walk until after we have breakfast, they know that they go out for their last potty break at 930pm, and Kody knows when it's time to watch dog whisperer (lol).

Smartest dogs I tell ya!

It's not so much as they can look at the clock and know what time it is. Dogs as well us humans have a biological clock.
We as humans can just look at a clock but a dog has to rely on their biological and routine.

iceblulady wrote:

It's not so much as they can look at the clock and know what time it is. Dogs as well us humans have a biological clock.
We as humans can just look at a clock but a dog has to rely on their biological and routine.

I figured that but it is fun to think they can tell time..

jalepeno wrote:

Last week with the change to day light savings time, he wasn't thrown off.
Quarter to six, he was sitting in the hall, staring, even though it was quarter to five his body time.
Uncanny!

That IS particularly interesting! Bodhi is quite the smarty pants. Daylight savings always throws mine off for a week or two until they readjust.