Do dogs have a concept of time?

In trying to understand dogs' concept of time, humans cannot help but reference their own concept of time. But that's tricky since humans have the unique ability to construct artificial measures of time such as the second, minute, and hour. read more

The idea of "dog years" comes from the life expectancy of dogs compared to humans. So it wouldn't be correct to apply this idea to the concept of time perception. To understand how dogs perceive time, we first need to understand how humans perceive time. read more

Dogs have a very different view of the world than we do. This includes the way that dogs perceive the passage of time. Certainly, the way different creatures perceive time is complicated. Some studies have shown that a dog cannot make a connection between a behavior and a consequence if there is more than a 4 second lag in between. read more