I've seen pretty a dump dog understand elevators well enough to run down the stairs to follow someone that had just gotten into an elevator.
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They can probably hear much more clearly than we can that it’s a box moving around on rails in a giant echo tube.
Dogs do have a concept of gravity, they can feel the movement of the floor.
Sidenote, but most elevators don't use a rail to move (although might use one for stability plus something to apply emergency brakes against), it's usually wires lifting them
do regular dogs go all like 'o shit its the cops' when they see a police dog, or is it just another dog to them?
Don't do anything illegal don't do anything illegal don't do anything illegal SQUIRREL!! Ah crap I did it again...
Violations of the Dog-Squirrel treaty of 2014 is no laughing matter
That treaty is a sham and everyone knows it. The squirrels had no right to annex Caninea.
That treaty ended a hundred year war! So what if the Squirrels took Caninea, nobody thought they'd even come to the negotiating table after the Canines glassed Squirrelandia
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Protest dogs are pretty good at recognizing cops vs protesters. Better than people sometimes.
Long live the memory of Negro Matapacos, greatest of allies. (Loukanikos was also a very good boy)
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People have to stop acting like animals are the stupidest most thoughtless creatures.
Yeah, most dogs probably understand it perfectly fine because it isn't a great mystery. They go in a room, they feel the acceleration, they feel the deceleration, they go out.
Sure, first time they are probably confused, but they are not completely oblivious to the world around them.
Also, yeah, this post is funny
Tbf people act like people are the stupidest creatures too. Especially historically speaking.
"How in the world could these complete and utter dumbasses figure out how to build giant piles of dirt in a specific shape? It must be aliens cause there is simply no way those idiots could figure that out on their own."
Especially if these people had a skin color any shade darker than white
There is obviously a lot of questions on how but I think the more interesting angle is why? Yeah humans at any stage in life could probably figure out how to stack these massive stones to create a few hundred meter tall structure. But the effort involved to do so must have needed some extraordinary reason, especially when you learn that the quarry they mined the stones from was 100s of kilometers away.
For the same reasons humans have done things throughout history. Worship, art, glory, vanity
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In a few centuries, provided we don't nuke ourselves into squiggles in sandstone, I look forward to personhood being extended to our canine, feline, bovine, equine, avian, reptilian, marsupial slaves and neighbors. It seems absurd that homo Sapiens is the only species with interesting stories to tell.
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I don't believe any of the 3 dogs I've had were ever in an elevator. Never thought about that before.
But while vacationing on Maui for a few weeks, toward the end my 4-yo daughter asked, "When are we going back to the real world?"
I hope you told her that consensus reality is a social construct and the real world doesn't exist outside of being an agreement by society to promote certain values and interpretations.
Well of course I did, whaddya think I am, some kinda idjit?
My dog definitely knows it’s moving and she hates it.
Same. He shivers. I think he hates glass elevators more than standard elevators.
The only acceptable elevator was in our old apartment. It meant he didn't have to do stairs. Nowadays, his old bones get carried up stairs anyways.
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Dogs don't have much in the way of spacial reasoning or logic, possibly due to over reliance on smells and sounds for navigation.
When the doors open and things look different they might be surprised but they quickly forget what the previous floor even looked like. It's as bewildering or thought provoking them as simply turning a corner would be. They don't understand it enough to even be bewildered.
That said, there are interpersonal difference to dogs, some of them might be more than smart enough to get quite confused.
My dog loves getting on busses and the tube. I think he just finds it exciting to see where we'll appear, it's pretty great, until you're not paying attention and he jumps on a random bus.
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I know there are dogs that understand how to use the subway, which is basically a horizontal elevator.
Also birds!
My dog loves the elevator, definitely cant tell the difference since both floors are the same, keeps going to our downstairs neighbors door like its our own before smelling it and realising her mistake.
I mean... I also went into my neibours apartment a couple times by mistake.
Looking at my dog, I think he understands elevators. Maybe not that why it goes, but probably does that it goes. Sometimes I think animals have better spatial awaerness then humans.
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The tweet that inspired Ben Stiller to start Severance
Season 3: Take your pet to work day.
Will Smith: “Can a dog compose a symphony or paint a great work of art?”
Incarcerated robot: “Can you?”
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While I've never been able to ask a dog myself, I'd imagine they can smell the changing space.
- Animals understand the world in a lot more detail and depth than we give them credit for. We get caught up in a lot of big brain nonsense, some of which is useful sure, but a lot of the basics, they’re well on top of. They’re not stupid, they just don’t have language or hands.
- I feel like a lot of human stuff is just total incomprehensible magic to cats and dogs. Cats clearly think humans can change the weather, or it might be different weather at a different door. Because why wouldn’t it be? You guys control the light switches and the doors and cars and stuff. Why would the weather be different? There’s stuff in my domain and then all the world change stuff is your domain. It’s cool, we can still be buds.
Idk man, pick one.
Some animals are truly more equal than others. Years ago we had a really smart horse. (And those of you who have been around horses much do know what an oxymoron that is.)
So this cat moves in. She was one of those that just moved in, no chip and no other luck finding her home. And she was pregnant and made a little nest and had her kittens.
And the smart cookie of a mare that I began this with made sure that we knew where the kittens were.
Then there's the normal horse experience where there's been a rock close to road for years. Then on one random occasion the rock is an apex predator.
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Advancing from world 1-2 to world 1-3
Dogs understand elevators.
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