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While I’ve never been able to ask a dog myself, I’d imagine they can smell the changing space.
dude they can feel the movement, same as you.
Sure, but do they KNOW they are moving up or down? Or do they just feel the room shake and suddenly they’re in a different place?
the accelleration, dear. like when a car speeds up? you get the same thing in an elevator. it’s probably still kinda weird.
Yes but we know it’s moving up and down, for all they know they get heavier or lighter for a short while
No no, definitely the smell /s
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.
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
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.
There is a documentary about dogs in some city using public transit to get around. Pretty sure that they remember where they are or were to some extent.
Not to say that they understand elevators. It’s probably just another room or hallway.
I’m sure they understand that the bus moves due to the many many windows and can take them to a specific place, but they could still just be navigating by scent and other factors. It’s not a good comparison to an elevator.
My only point was that they are remembering where they are or were. They didn’t forget everything because they turned a corner.
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.
its complicated. RATO presence in the region keeps tensions high, and squirruss borders are notoriously hard to defend.
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
You messed with the squirrels, Morty!
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)
I don’t expect dogs have much of a conception of “cops.” They might see them as generic authority figures though.
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
Idk if it’s just a trope, but there are allegedly people so into the conspiracy wondering if they were built from the ground up or the tip down. 😅
I think the idea the pyramids were build from the top is a joke playing of the things said by conspiracy theorists.
They were built from the top down. From the top waaaay waay down.
Each one has two round chambers at its base nearly 2km below the surface.
Edit: Eh, nobody got my juvenile phallic reference.
Oh, I saw it in a 4 hour long debunking documentary in potato quality on YT, but I do remember seeing the image.
They actually started from a corner
But which corner? Maybe it was the top corner 🤣
Ive seen dogs get scared of their own farts…
Not really saying much, I’ve seen adults do the same
Considering how almost unbelievably stupid some adults can be I think my point still stands lol
All i’m saying is that dogs are not generally completely stupid, just like humans aren’t. Both groups have the extreme idiots
I’ve woken myself from deep sleep with my own farts?
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.
Non-avian reptiles have very little going on in there with very few exceptions. Dogs, some corvids, some parrots, pigs, cetaceans, apes, maybe octopuses, and probably more but that’s the spread that comes to mind: I can see “personhood” being applied. I love animals but I’m drawing a line and the average cat isn’t on the same side as me and they’re well above average in terms of reasoning and emotional capacity. Something can have personality without being a person.
Dolohins are the only ones I’m nearly 100% certain they have some kind of sapients. Probably some octopodes too but that will likely be completely alien.
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?
The tweet that inspired Ben Stiller to start Severance
Season 3: Take your pet to work day.
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.
Some do, many don’t. Humans are actually really graceful compared to most animals and intuitively do very complex things in space. Tossing a paper ball into a garbage can from ten feet away is an almost uniquely human ability. You ever see a dog try to fit a long stick through a narrow door? Their ability to judge relative sizes and distance is terrible, comparatively.
I have seen too many videos of small monkeys and big apes throwing their dong to agree with your paper ball theory. Also frogs don’t throw balls but are great at catching insects, a lot of other animals have great spatial awareness when it comes to hunting prey. But tbh, I doubt wether they could grasp the concept of a box going up and down like humans do.
Have seen too many videos of dogs trying to take long sticks through narrow doors to disagree with you there though. Personally I think dogs are just not that smart after all that (in)breeding we did. I’m not calling dogs stupid, don’t want the world to dislike me.
Frogs and archerfish and chameleons and such have evolved to do that one thing, it’s more like a preprogrammed algorithm than spacial awareness. And they miss a fair amount if you sit and watch them, that just doesn’t make the Animal Planet highlight reel.
Speaking of highlight reels, that kind of confirmation bias also applies to poop-slinging monkeys. They literally don’t have the musculature for fine control, they just throw a lot of shit.
…but apes, monkies, and humans still aren’t most species.
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.
“WHY IS NOBODY REACTING TO THIS ABOMINATION???”
Human, human, human, HUMANTAUR, human, human, …
Will Smith: “Can a dog compose a symphony or paint a great work of art?”
Incarcerated robot: “Can you?”
Yes, but will you like it? While a dog just can’t.
Advancing from world 1-2 to world 1-3
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.
I don’t think we’ve ever had her in a glass elevator. I’m not sure if she’d hate it more or less. What she hates the most is in Canada a lot of the hotels have a kind of grate/rug thing at the main entrance. I’ve seen them in America too but I think the Canadian ones are deeper, probably with an actual drain to better handle snow coming off shoes in the winter. They often move when you walk on them and she will not walk on them anymore. She’ll either try to go around or fully leap over it in desperation. It’s like she thinks it’s a trapdoor.
I hate the elevator at work. The building has two elevators from the 70s and at last one of them is usually broken. Once it’s repaired the other one breaks. Both of them make strange noises and vibrations if you ride them…
I know there are dogs that understand how to use the subway, which is basically a horizontal elevator.
Also birds!
Friend, I don’t understand elevators.
should be an insane clown posse lyric
Fuckin’ magnets, how do they work?
Box goes up and down, takes you with.
- 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.
Reminds me of when my puppy first noticed a light fixture on a ceiling and proceeded to stare at it like, “What the fuck is that?”
I didn’t understand that last paragraph.
What did the horse do to let you know about the kittens?
On the last paragraph: it is quite common for a horse to be perfectly comfortable on a particular route. Be it from stable to field or on regular riding track. And after half a decade something that has always been there is just unbearably scary for them. A rock, a fence post, a post box, literally anything.
And on those kittens - horses are quite elaborate on their body language. That cat had made her nest behind the wall of said horses stall. Behind that stall was an area mostly relegated to tools - wheelbarrows and shovels and such. Said mare was also extremely interested in food, when something is more important than evening meal it raises eyebrows. First thing that comes in mind on situation like that is illness.
But that time she was clearly healthy and happy. Every time we’d get close by she was neighing and pointing with with her head. And sure enough, there was a nest behind the wall and sure enough the cat and those kittens needed a bit of help.
