Do dogs know how long you've been gone?
Sanford Bergnaum
2025-10-19 19:02:12
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Dogs have a sense of time but don’t understand the ‘concept’ of time. While your dog will remember you leaving the house, they most likely won’t understand how long you were away. When dogs are left alone, sometimes they become stressed, indicating that they have an awareness of the passage of time. Dogs can sense the changes in the air, for example, hot air rises over the course of an afternoon, and dogs can sense this. Dogs have episodic memories, which means they are only able to remember certain events in their life. Animal memory is thought to be much more simplistic than human memory.