Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows

Re:Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing th... by grujicd on Sunday September 08, 2024 @05:51AM (#41479357)

While this is all cute, dogs should be discouraged from eating food they find in the street! It could be poisoned. You never know whether there's someone who really hates dogs in the neighborhood, or if someone tries to solve problems with rats. Unfortunately, my friend lost a dog that way.

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Re:Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing th... by kennyadam on Sunday September 08, 2024 @06:07AM (#41479430)

No doubt this happens, it must be so rare for someone to put out poisoned half-eaten sausage rolls with the aim of killing a random dog that finds it, I think this is perhaps a teensy bit paranoid.

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Re:Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing th... by Snild on Sunday September 08, 2024 @06:30AM (#41479529)

We've had this problem in Malmö, Sweden recently: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/nya-hundbullar-hitta...

Bread rolls with bits of glass or metal in them, found in parks or along other pedestrian paths. They caught one woman doing it, but it is believed the news might have inspired other nutjobs.

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Re:Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing th... by throwaway48540 on Sunday September 08, 2024 @06:17AM (#41479481)

It's so rare, but it actually does happen, and the people doing it actually try to conceal it like a half eaten sausage that "just fell".

But this isn't even about this particular half eaten sausage. A dog doesn't know the difference between a pristine sausage and a half eaten one, to them it's just meat. And the point is that dogs should be taught to never eat any meat on the street - because they can't think "uh, looks half eaten, probably fine".

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Re:Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing th... by stevesimmons on Sunday September 08, 2024 @12:09PM (#41481217)

It does happen. My sister lost two dogs from poisoned meat someone put in their local park. They ran into the bushes, must have eaten something, started frothing at the mouth, and 15 minutes later both were dead. Apparently a number of other dogs died near that location the same way.

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Re:Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing th... by petepete on Sunday September 08, 2024 @08:34AM (#41480029)

Oh she's never encouraged. But, Labs being Labs, she'd find a crisp in a field given two minutes.

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Re:Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing th... by torstenvl on Sunday September 08, 2024 @08:48AM (#41480090)

#embed "whaleeyes.jpg"

All food must go to the lab for testing!

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