My dog doesn’t know what time is and doubt he’ll ever understand “o’clock” or the common human timekeeping convention.
He gets food when I get out of bed and around when the sun is going away or gone. If he gets “dinner” earlier than that, he know we’re going out somewhere soon. If dogs have a circadian rhythm, that.
My dog understands the phrase, “it’s nine o’clock” to be a synonym for, “it’s time for last outside.” That is when we wind them up just before quiet time and send them charging outside to do their business one last time. He also understands, somehow, when the credits play just before or after that time and sometimes will wait patiently for a few minutes past 9 to see if we will send them out.
The cat is far more adamant about feeding time than the dogs, at least at my house. But I guess it makes sense since she’s basically in charge and the dogs are her lackeys.
I swear they have a built-in clock that marks nothing but feeding time. It’s kind of nuts. (And another that randomly goes off that also marks feeding time every time 😹)
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