how do they KNOW???? <spooky>

[LEMmingaround]

We have ordered Chinese - it wont be coming for ages - well, about 20 minutes - but they know!!

[drnoitall]

Huh?

[scarletforya]

Time it takes to cook it
+
Time it takes to deliver it

[FrancesGlass]

Who knows?

(And what do they know - that you've ordered Chinese?!?)

[LEMmingaround]

scarlet? im not sure what you are talking about but i am talking about my dogs!! Every single time we order a take-away they are like cats on hot tin roofs - they are whining and whinging and jumping at every sound! There is no clue in our demeanour that they could have picked on!

[StealthPolarBear]

Who know what?
Was it in e fortune cookie

[AlpacaLypse]

LEM have you missed some vitally important bit of your OP?

Too much ?

[AlpacaLypse]

xposted!

[AlpacaLypse]

Clearly they have added 'egg fried rice' to the list of words they know and ignore normally like Sit, Stay, Come...

[Tiswineoclocksomewhere]

We've just ordered a curry and you're right - the dog is pacing the hallway!

[ohfourfoxache]

Hahahahahahahaha LEM - are we related?

Hope you enjoyed your Chinese!

[DramaAlpaca]

When I saw your OP my first thought was dogs!

[scarletforya]

Ah the doggies!

I thought you meant the staff, erm, knowing how long the delivery will take!

They used deductive doggy reasoning I'd say. Saw no dinner being made, heard someone on the phone listing food, heard the magic words 'chicken balls' uttered. Stuff kind that ?

[scarletforya]

God, I'm so hungry.

[FrancesGlass]

Ahhhhh!

Our dog has a clever way of counting the plates on the table and whinging when we haven't put one of them on the floor for her to lick.

(Yes, we let our dogs lick our plates.)

[LEMmingaround]

Frances, i bet they sleep in the bed too don't they? ours do - my JRT is looking at me as it to say can you hurry up and finish that so i can clean the plate - but its too yummy!! Satay chicken and special fried rice, nom nom nom

[Primrose123]

Well, they were listening when you placed the order, obviously. :)

[LEMmingaround]

that was yummy :)

[PomBearWithAnOFRS]

We have a tortoise who hurls himself at the mesh of his habitat (in the corner of the kitchen) and climbs up panting eagerly when we unpack the shopping, but only if we have lollo rosso, or rocket in there.
Mixed salad gets a more sedate reaction, and no salad at all gets The Look Of Chelonian Distain...
He can also apparently tell the sound of a dandelion being picked in either the front or back garden, even with all the doors shut, because he does a little "Dandelion Shuffle" when we bring them in - they're his favourite
I expect dogs are much more intelligent than tortoises even trained stunt tortoises with stage names like ours, so DD says they certainly have much larger brains, so why wouldn't they know the Magic Words that go with takeaway arriving?
Try using Just Eat or Hungry House online and typing without speaking, and see what happens then - totally in the interests of science, of course

[JohnCusacksWife]

Creepy, isn't it? Ours always know when we're expecting someone to call round even when we're just acting as usual. Yesterday my dad called to say he'd pop round with something later in the day and our dog was like a coiled spring all day until he appeared. Weird...!

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

My DDs guinea-pigs know when I've brought in a bag of veg and when it's a boring bag of bread.

And one of them is a red-eyed (so eyesight not so good)

[CadleCrap]

[grin]@excitable tortoise

[sashh]

I always thought a tortoise would be a bit of a crap pet, I had no idea they had personalities.

[DarlingGrace]

Tortoises are amazing - I only have to shake the salad bag and they run, no gallop across the lawn in a tizzy of excitement.

[desertmum]

my dog sleeps in the car but always wakes up when we go round the McDonald's roundabout (she is partial to chicken nuggets). Wierd.

[FryOneFatManic]

desertmum Sun 02-Mar-14 10:26:28
my dog sleeps in the car but always wakes up when we go round the McDonald's roundabout (she is partial to chicken nuggets). Wierd.

Possibly the dog is just familiar with the motion of the car on certain journeys.

I know that if I doze off in the car when DP is driving, I will wake up at a certain point near to home as I am familiar with the motion of the car on that part of the journey. I don't think it's magical, just my subconcious reacts to certain motions.