How much is a few minutes in dog time?
Earnestine Morar
2025-10-13 12:53:51
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Our 60 minutes translates to about 75 minutes for them.
Dogs have a higher metabolism than humans, and thus experience time more slowly.
However, they don’t know how many specific hours, days, or weeks have gone by.
But they can sense the passage of time through many mechanisms while you are gone.
Because dogs tend to focus on the current moment, it could be a case of you either being there or not.
Some dogs seem just as excited to see us after a short departure as with a longer departure.
But when studied, more greeting behaviors were observed upon the owner’s return from an absence greater than two hours.
It’s plausible that a dog can track short amounts of time by the strength of an odor and use olfactory memory for long-term time tracking.
Dogs can’t tell how many hours, days, or weeks you have been absent.