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[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 149 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 84 points 2 months ago

They can probably hear much more clearly than we can that it’s a box moving around on rails in a giant echo tube.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 46 points 2 months ago

Dogs do have a concept of gravity, they can feel the movement of the floor.

[-] Natanael@infosec.pub 16 points 2 months ago

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

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 101 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Protest dogs are pretty good at recognizing cops vs protesters. Better than people sometimes.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Long live the memory of Negro Matapacos, greatest of allies. (Loukanikos was also a very good boy)

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[-] MTK@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago

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."

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Especially if these people had a skin color any shade darker than white

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[-] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Ive seen dogs get scared of their own farts…

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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?"

[-] OccultIconoclast@reddthat.com 21 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Well of course I did, whaddya think I am, some kinda idjit?

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago

My dog definitely knows it’s moving and she hates it.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

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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[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] damdy@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

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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[-] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was at a festival years ago and a couple was sat next to me with a dog that looked like a German Shepherd cross that was clearly on edge, looking around at the crowd walking by. Then a guy with a kid on his shoulders came near. All you could see at first was the guys shoulders and the kid's head above his. You couldn't see the kid's legs because the guy had his arms wrapped around them. The dog jumped up and started barking its head off at them. Until they got to the point where you could see them side on. As soon as the dog realised what was going on it immediately stopped barking and sat back down. I've often wondered what that dog thought was going on at first.

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 28 points 2 months ago

Human, human, human, HUMANTAUR, human, human, ...

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 months ago

"WHY IS NOBODY REACTING TO THIS ABOMINATION???"

[-] Goretantath@lemm.ee 35 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] gens@programming.dev 14 points 2 months ago

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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[-] remon@ani.social 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I know there are dogs that understand how to use the subway, which is basically a horizontal elevator.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Also birds!

[-] glups@lemm.ee 31 points 2 months ago

The tweet that inspired Ben Stiller to start Severance

[-] modus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Season 3: Take your pet to work day.

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Will Smith: “Can a dog compose a symphony or paint a great work of art?”

Incarcerated robot: “Can you?”

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[-] EnderWiggin@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

While I've never been able to ask a dog myself, I'd imagine they can smell the changing space.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Friend, I don't understand elevators.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

should be an insane clown posse lyric

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 19 points 2 months ago
  1. 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.
  2. 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.

[-] khapyman@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

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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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Advancing from world 1-2 to world 1-3

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Dogs understand elevators.

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