How Do Dogs Perceive Time?

Your dog can’t talk to you about what he perceives, however, you know that by the wag of his tail and dancing around the food dish that he knows when dinner time is. Also well known indicators of a dog’s perception of time are that he knows when you come home from work every day, his bed time and when to wake up, and when it’s time to go for a walk or ride to the park.

Researches have concluded (although some disagree) that a dog’s perceptions are based on associative memory abilities. A dog is able to associate a series of events and put it together into a conclusion of what the next thing to happen may be, thus the expectation of dinner or your return from work. A dog knows the precursor human events leading to these major dog /human interaction events.

This also leads most researches to believe that dogs do not perceive time in the same way as humans; rather dogs live in the moment they are in without the human abilities of reflecting back on events and planning future events. Dogs use their associative memory to determine routines. This also clues us how best to train a dog by using associative memory skills that come naturally and developing routines.

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