Meirl
Wednesday, 19 Mar 2025
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I think they can process it. They feel the lift going up and slowing down to stop. They can smell really well so they probably smell one floor going down and the smell of one floor getting stronger.
I’m not sure how much dogs think but you know. They see tall buildings. So they could know the thing they enter is tall.
Also. If they use the stairs once they’ll recognise the smells and be able to tell. Okay, this is one floor. This is the next floor. And that box brings us up and down easily. Like a car
God I wish that was my brain at 3am and not “why did I do that one thing 15 years ago I’m such a failure”
They understand. If one us steps into the elevator and goes ahead, our dog will head towards the stairs. Because she understands that stairs and elevator lead to the same place.
Dogs live in a universe where the house just changes floors, and they just accept it.
My dog just didn’t care where we were going as long as he could come lol
When I met my fiancé she lived in an apartment. My dog was initially distrustful about the elevator. But we varied taking the elevator and stairs, and the dog quickly got what was happening
Dogs are smarter than many people (think).
I’ve seen some dogs operate an elevator alone, and I’ve seen my dog get lost in an empty room.
Final answer: it depends.
I once asked a woman I was living with how many words she thinks her dog understands. She replied mysteriously that “they understand a lot more than people imagine”. Seconds later, the dog started licking his balls, then got angry at light reflecting off my watch.
I imagine the inner monologue of every dog is in the voice of Scooby Doo.
They see it the same like when you play GTA V and enter a building. All you see is a transition from open world to black screen and to inside world, but all the programming and all the code rhat runs inside black metal box is unknown to you.
They porbably know how it works, as they can feel the force moving them upwards, and they can see that the building from outside is not 5 meters tall but rather 30 meters, so they probably know it’s a box that moves up and down, but have no clue what kind of black magic moves it
World changer. 100%. Because I love the idea 😄
I just started watching severance. Don’t do this to me, man!
my neighbors dog got lost one day, but came back to our building on it’s own. I live two floors below that neighbor, same apartment but on different floors. Since I’m on the first floor, the dog walked up one set of stairs and started whining to be let in, thinking it was his apartment. Yeah, probably got confused cause of the elevator.
Do cats understand TVs or are they just : ok, portal
Tangentially related: my 3 year old son thinks when he wakes up from a nap (only like 2-3 hours), it’s a new day, not the same day.
I feel like my dog had this for like a year after we moved. Every time I busted out a box, my dog would haul ass. Last time I used boxes, his whole world changed!
Ever open the door to let your dog out into the yard, and it’s raining, and they hesitate and give you this look, like “can’t you throw a switch or something and turn off the rain for a sec, I have to pee”.
There are stray dogs in – I believe it was Moscow? – that know how to use the subway system. Pretty smart.
I always wondered… Do animals know that cars aren’t alive?
My dog 100% believes we can control the weather. He’ll look out the back door and see that it’s raining, he hates the rain. But every time we take him outside it’s not raining.
So if we take him outside it won’t be raining. Duh.
I’m pretty sure they do. I live in an elevator building and if my dog really needs to go potty, instead of bringing me to the elevator which is slow, he’ll run down the stairs instead. So he definitely knows what the elevator does and that the stairs also do the same thing.
They probably don’t understand that it’s a room that moves up and down, but most dogs probably feel it moving and understand it somehow takes them to a different place. Kinda like cars, although they can look out the window of a car, and they understand their humans often leave and arrive home in cars
Something inside them tells them to follow their Alpha Whether that Alpha is another dog a wolf or a human or even a horse.
If you are that dog’s Alpha he will follow you wherever you go!
His denning instinct kicks in and wants to be in a small space with you
My dog knows when he steps off the wrong floor. Not sure what that means in his mind.
You know how you can intuitively feel if you’re moving, the direction and the acceleration? So can dogs
My dog went on an elevator ONCE and after that decided that they were a transportation device to hell. He took a shit right in front of one before getting on it
From my experience they understand that you go in, the door closes, and when it opens again they’re somewhere else. But they do not understand how it works or that there are different floors it stops at.
Source: Had a dog visit vor a few weeks. When the elevator stopped she would always try to get off, even if it wasn’t our floor and seemed irritated if I wouldn’t let her.
My dog is absolutely indifferent to it, which is curious. He’s an extremely scaredy rescue, he’s scared of everything. You drop a teaspoon on the floor he’ll run under the bed. Any sudden movement he’ll run for a second before turning and remembering he’s safe.
In the elevator absolutely no reaction tho. And the thing makes noise in addition to pushing you up.
The real question is, can you prove that you understand elevators and that they aren’t world changers?
I’ve had the same thought about cars. “Oh boy, here we go into the magical move-around box that’ll take me and Hooman either someplace super awesome or super terrifying!”
My dog didn’t understand stairs. He could go up and down them, but if I got too far ahead on a turn he’d turn around to start walking in my direction, where I was above him, even though the stairs in that direction led down.
I’d have to go back down a flight or two so he could make a direct line 😁
I think, often, about writing a fiction story where humans have been domesticated by advanced aliens and have a similar relationship with tech that a dog has with our tech. The aliens operate the portal for us, they get the tech, we just wait by the door and wonder where the portal takes us. We get in their ships and they take us places.
what about the concept of a week? I assume that most people have to work 5 days a week, so the dogs notices a 5-day period of separation, can they anticipate weekends, where people spend more time at home (at least in general)?
Wait. Shit.
Don’t dogs lack object permanence or was that cats? Do they think it’s like a weird janky teleporter? To they comprehend that the weird box physically connects the two spaces?
Oh damn why did this have to be asked
A recurring gag in Peter Sellers’ last movie – Being There.
Played to perfection.
I’m more curious about toddlers.
And cars……I get into the moving box, I feel the wind in my face and smell a thousand smells. It seems random, sometimes we stop at the place with the man in the white coat who pokes me with the sharp thing. Sometimes we at a place where a bunch of other dogs are and I get to run and play……
I don’t think dogs even process it. They probably don’t think about it
Dogs don’t even understand their own reflection in the mirror. Doubt they understand elevators.
After my dog used an elevator for the first time (which happened to have a tile floor), she stopped trusting any tile floor ever, anxious that it’s gonna move unexpectedly on her.
“The vet? Fine, time to go in the loading zone”
As a child i didnt understand the concept, buy evetually caught on. Sure dogs can do the same
My dog definitely thinks it is a teleporter
My dog definitely seems to understand it.
I think it is a smell thing. I lived on the 23rd floor and my dog would seem to know when we were near our floor or the lobby. At first, I figured it was a timing thing, but other people would get off on like floor 21 or the 2nd floor and my dog wouldn’t flinch. But they would get excited before the doors even opened on floor 23 or the lobby but really really excited whenever we went past the lobby (because that meant Car ride/dog park)
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Well now me and my 14, 12, and 9 year old will be debating this all night. We have one smart dog and one dog who’s only here for his soft warm snuggly body. Ha, mind blown
They are just along for the ride
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My parents dog HATES elevators lol. Poor thing doesn’t understand
I don’t know about this but I know my dog will check the back door, and if it’s raining he’ll go and check the front door, so he definitely thinks there are two different “outsides”.