Timeline for Do dogs know when their owner is coming home through some form of telepathic link?
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 10:04 | comment | added | user18896 | Would be nice if people commenting would actually read the papers. Each of the following were extensively tested and ruled out: It happens on a schedule Dogs have excellent hearing Confirmation bias Separation anxiety | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 18:08 | comment | added | user13486 | @Kit Sunde:Please read the papers below. | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 17:46 | answer | added | user13486 | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 23:57 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ |
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| Jun 27, 2011 at 20:31 | comment | added | user unknown |
Since telepathy has never been shown to work, afaik, it would be surprising, if dogs could do it. However - wouldn't the idea of telepathy need a kind of sender, which informs the dod I'm coming!?
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| May 20, 2011 at 19:30 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | Sheldrake is infamous for other discredited “research” as well. Although this doesn’t invalidate this particular work per se, it does seem to form a consistent pattern with him. | |
| May 20, 2011 at 10:27 | comment | added | Benjol | There is talk about dogs being able to detect epileptic fits in advance | |
| May 20, 2011 at 2:10 | answer | added | Skava | timeline score: 16 | |
| Apr 30, 2011 at 8:41 | comment | added | Tormod | You should also look up the "clever Hans" effect. And you should watch some animal videos to see that animals different from us have natural skills that for us seem "impossible". Not just sensory, but also gauging perception and response time. It is hard for you to take part in the world as the dog perceive it. It could be anything related. It could be the radio next door having a distinct chime. We may not always be able to explain exactly HOW the dog appears to "know", but when properly blinded, the behavior disappears... | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 7:07 | comment | added | jwenting | @Kit that's a sign of separation anxiety, nothing psychic about it. My parents' dog had a severe case of that, he'd sit by the door whining even my father left the room to go to the toilet or grab something from the basement for a minute or less. Training and reinforcing healthy behaviour can help cure that. | |
| Apr 28, 2011 at 0:26 | comment | added | Kit Sunde | Why on earth does this have 2 downvotes? | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 18:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSkeptic/status/63303733529952256 | ||
| Apr 27, 2011 at 15:32 | comment | added | Monkey Tuesday | Richard Wiseman addressed thishere | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 14:57 | comment | added | M. Werner | We showed pretty conclusively that my shepherd simply recognized the sound of my car. The wife said he'd always get up and go to the door just a minute or so before I parked. However... I had the muffler repaired/replaced, and it took him the better part of a week to get used to the new sound! | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 14:49 | comment | added | Lagerbaer | There's a whole bunch of logical and experimental fallacies in his study. Confirmation bias comes to mind. cectic.com/049.html | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 14:17 | comment | added | Kit Sunde | @jwenting - From what my friend said about what he read in the book the dog would start waiting when the owner left work, which I would assume is far away if the driver needs a car to even get back. But you are right about dog hearing. :) | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 13:51 | comment | added | jwenting | dogs have excellent hearing. They can hear your car approaching long before a human can. Get a new car, and for a few days they're not going to associate that sound with you... | |
| Apr 27, 2011 at 13:01 | history | asked | Kit Sunde | CC BY-SA 3.0 |