Ddog is very cross..

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Because I am sat with a coffee and haven't got my walking boots in.. 10 am is walkies time.
Do ddogs know the time??
I get they know routines and associations. Ddog 1 just had to see me with a pair of socks and she sat waiting for her lead on!! No routine this week as have been decorating - pacing and downright scowling right now!!
Same at 10 pm regardless ddog2 goes for her last wee!!
Does your ddog clock watch?

I swear my old boy can tell the time. 3.00 every day he starts staring at me, 3.25 he takes me to the cupboard to get his snuffle mat out. Same with his evening meal and at 10.20 every night we are told to go to bed because he wants to go to sleep! Seasonal clock changes really annoy him as well.

He doesn’t have set walk times, but if he hasn’t been by 12.30 we will be mooed, reprimanded and on the receiving end of deep sighs and dark looks until we give in. Then again in the evening, if dh dares to sit down after he’s eaten, instead of putting his coat on!

My parents doggo definitely knows when it is 5pm and her teatime. At the moment she starts nagging at 4pm due to the clocks going back! I think it is because she can gauge the emptiness of her tummy!

Mine has the most unbelievable sense of time. He gets his tea at 4.30 - he's usually waiting in the kitchen by 4, and woe betide us if it gets to 4.40! He also, unfortunately, wakes up within a couple of minutes of 4am every blooming morning, pretends to need a wee and then just stands in the garden with his teddy for a few minutes and won't go back to bed without a Bonio. I tried keeping a little tin of Bonios under the bed so he could just have one without one of us having to get up, but he insists on the full performance.

Ours look accusingly at us around 20-30 minutes before their food and walk, with the glares increasing in intensity up to the time. Anything beyond and there is circling, loud sighs and heart rending moaning.

They are also strict about bedtime, even though they have done nothing more strenuous in the evening than loll about with a bone, search for a treat, or give a paw for a biscuit.
They gaze earnestly into our faces every night at 10.30, trying to convey their message telepathically. It works!

Definitely. Mine knows when it's time for a walk and when it's time for dinner!

Most definitely. Our puppy has been waiting for my OH to get home at 5pm every week day since he turned 5 months old. It's amazing how they know the time without a clock!

They certainly do,

My Springer reminds me from 5 pm onwards that his dinner is scheduled for 6pm. DH decided when the dogs were young he would do the 6am breakfast feed 7 days per week and both dogs are sat patiently at the kitchen door waiting for him and do a low whine if it’s 6:02am.

They are also fully aware of 8am and 4 pm because this is the time for walkies and they bring DH their leads and just look at him and/or dribble lightly on his knee until he is fully reminded.

Springer’s self imposed bedtime is 9pm where he slides off the sofa next to me and pops himself into his basket and then proceeds to theatrically put his enormous paws over his eyes, or waggle his enormous ears over his eyes until we go to bed and switch off the light.

My lab could also tell the time ... dogs know exactly what happens when

Doggos are so great!

It took 3 days into lockdown before billypup started barking at dh’s home office at 5.20, his own fault he is supposed to work until 5.30 but for various legitimate reasons finished early the first week wfh.

I love how theatrical they get. My old girl gets closer and closer to me as dinnertime approaches. I like to ignore her at stare at the tv until she gets inches away and starts tip tapping her feet!.

And if it's too early and I tell her to go lie down the sigh is so dramatic!

my dog knows my routine to a tee and woe betide me if it changes, he stares at me and huffs about til i give in

We tend to brush our dogs teeth at around the same time every night so she always starts getting excited around that time (she adores the taste of the toothpaste, though not so much the actual brushing!)

Mine is very vocal and high pitched when I'm not ready on time, why are we slaves to them, shouldn't we be the boss?

Mine has perfected the Paddington hard stare. I don’t have to see her - I can feel it!

This happens exactly five minutes before normal walk or meal time and definitely works. I am a slave to the dog.

Mine knows when its dinner time. She has been asleep upstairs all afternoon after a very long walk and she appeared at 5.45, went to her bowl and barked. I am her loyal servant so jumped up and filled the bowl, just as she dipped her head to eat a bloody huge firework went off, she scurried away and hasn't been back.

I wish the fireworks and the bloody idiots who keep setting them off would sod right off.

Dogs are just the best

Our golden retriever used to know when it was 4 because he heard the grandfather clock chime four. I don't think he could count exactly (!) - he just knew when it sounded right.

The Paddington hard stare is a highly accurate description @BewaretheIckabog! I was going to start a thread asking if anyone else gets bossed about by their dog! Ours knows when it’s dinner time and walk time. He is like a grandpa at bedtime. He gives me a long hard stare when he wants to go to bed. I tell him not yet if I’m not ready. He then collapses back down on the sofa and huffs. When I say it’s time for bed, he gets to the back door like a rocket. Has a wee and a bedtime biscuit then heads upstairs. God forbid I take too long to come upstairs or have to come back downstairs to get a phone charger or a glass of water. He actually comes down to collect me. I get herded into my bed!😂

We don't have set routines in our house but ddog can definitely tell when we start putting our dog walking clothes on and gets very excited running to the door barking .

He can tell when it's bedtime though because even though he's spent the evening snoozing on the chair when it gets to 10.30 he will bark to go outside to toilet then heads upstairs to bed .

I've read they know the time by smell, the way scents change throughout the day and so on.

Mine gets a dentastick in the morning when the first person goes downstairs. If we dare to sleep past 7.15 there is an awful lot of toe tapping and sneezing until we happen to wake and get up!! She also knows when it is walk and tea time. I love her and her cheeky ways very much!

Mine know dinner time and start watching closely at what we're up to. Walk time varies but they seem to know which getting ready to go out means a walk and which means we're doing something else. I've got a friend who we tend to walk with and when my dog sees her he gets ecstatic. She came over one day just to have a drink and chat and he glared at us both all evening because we didn't go out.