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I can't read French, but the abstract states "dogs remember who and what happened but no study evidenced yet that they remember the precise time it was done."
by baggy_trough 6y ago
I can't read French, but the abstract states "dogs remember who and what happened but no study evidenced yet that they remember the precise time it was done."
That is a much lesser claim than "they're more or less completely unaware of it (the past)"
- cgriswald 6y agoThere’s plenty of more studies out there, many paywalled. I just offered you one so you’d get the idea and have a place to start if you were actually interested. My point is that dogs don’t have a “past” to dwell on the way we do. Where you or I have a specific memory of playing fetch that we can replay, analyze, and put into new contexts, dogs have a sort of database of facts: “Rules of fetch”, “ball = fun”, “this human plays fetch”. They are “things remembered” versus “memories”.
- baggy_trough 6y agoI read all of your provided links, but I'm not convinced they support what you claim about dog memories.
- cgriswald 6y agoI don’t know what to tell you, man. I don’t keep a list of books and papers I’ve read about every topic and sharing my direct experience isn’t possible. I gave you a starting point to sate your own curiosity. I don’t have any interest in defending a claim I know to be true on an off-handed comment on a low stakes topic. I’m not here to convince you or educate you.
- baggy_trough 6y agoThank you for providing the links.