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07-15-2013, 03:43 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: whitby, On, Canada
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| Do they remember???? Hi everyone I have a silly question. Do dogs remember their mommies? Wallee's mom was adopted up the street from us when she was retired from breeding. When we meet on the street, it seems like he remembers her. She looks at him and of course as a typical mommy who has weaned her young, wants nothing to do with him.. I mean it just could be cause Wallee loves all other dogs but just thought I'd ask. |
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07-15-2013, 03:46 PM | #2 |
and Shelby's too Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Millbrook, AL
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| That's a good question. I just thought they would, but now I'm asking why I think that. I don't know. I'd like to know too.
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07-15-2013, 07:00 PM | #3 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: MN, USA
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| My neighbor owns Blazer's mother and we see them almost every day. We ask ourselves quite often if the two dogs remember that they are mom and pup. I think, overall, that these two do. Abby, Blazer's mother, will still protect him if she thinks he needs it but usually she acts like an annoyed parent. Sometimes they will play, sometimes they will "fight." My big boy, Buddy, would not likely remember his mother, or siblings, for that matter- he left them when he was almost 4 months old. My neighbors a couple of houses down have a Yorkie female who is just two weeks younger than Blazer. They have only played with each other a handful of times but they know where the other is and fight to be together when ever they see each other. Every time that girl gets loose from her house she is over here trying to get into mine. I refer to her as Blazer's "girlfriend." Dogs definitely have memories, but whether or not they remember the same things in the same way we do is up for discussion. I think it is more of association with dogs than memory.
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07-15-2013, 07:18 PM | #4 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| I think it is possible. Max appeared to remember his human breeder when we went back a year later. Max and Teddy are full brothers, different litters. They met for the first time in a hotel lobby and I think they must have smelled something on each other that made them know they are related. That is my story and I'm sticking to it.
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07-15-2013, 07:19 PM | #5 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| More . . . I don't think they remember the way humans do. It's more of a scent thing.
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07-16-2013, 02:03 AM | #6 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: whitby, On, Canada
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| Thats what I was thinking. I thought perhaps that the pups would remember the scent of the mommy. |
07-16-2013, 02:22 AM | #7 |
YT Addict Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Alabama
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| Interesting question. I've often wondered basically the same thing---if Milo remembers the people that owned (or had possession of) him before I did. I have taken him back to visit with the people at the rescue who all seemed to love him a great deal,, but couldn't really tell. They've asked me to please come back at anytime, so I'll have to be sure to pay another visit soon & try again to make a determination at that time. If anyone out there knows any other info on this subject please enlighten us. |
07-21-2013, 12:41 PM | #8 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Naples, fl
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| I think they go off smell, my Zoe has a sister Lizzy who lives 5 miles away I take Zoe over for play dates they both go crazy over seeing each other. If my husband just goes over Lizzy follows him everywhere and when he picks her up she just looks at him with googly eyes. She can smell Zoe |
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