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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ours was convinced we were going to work today, she does not yet understand the concept of "Saturday" or "Sunday". Amazon should pay her. :)

[–] sxan@midwest.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How long has she been doing the job?

Ours is very good with time. I'm not sure he knows it's Saturday except we get up later; he's not thrown off by holidays, though.

However, he can tell time, in a way. He is overweight (it's a journey, ok‽‽), and when we put him on a diet he was regularly waking us up in the middle of the night, begging. So we got him an automatic feeder, to distance ourselves from being food providers. One day, my wife notices him sitting in front of the grandfather clock, staring at it... and a couple of minutes later it chimed and the food dispenser went off! He'd only do it around feeding times. I think he could kind of tell by how hungry he was, and he could tell where in the hour it was because of the different chimes on the quarter hours. So - my guess - is that based on how hungry he was and how long the chimes went, he could figure out that the food would go the next time it chimed. So about 10 minutes before feeding time he goes over and watches the clock. It's kind of amazing.

He doesn't do it as much anymore; I guess he's figure it'll go when it goes, but he absolutely stops and listens for the food dish, whatever he's doing, when the grandfather clock chimes the hour.

Maybe your's is still figuring out the pattern.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

She's only a year old so, yeah, still pretty green. LOL. She was very upset that I got up, skipped the office and left for an eye appointment. LOL.