I've seen pretty a dump dog understand elevators well enough to run down the stairs to follow someone that had just gotten into an elevator.
They can probably hear much more clearly than we can that it’s a box moving around on rails in a giant echo tube.
Sidenote, but most elevators don't use a rail to move (although might use one for stability plus something to apply emergency brakes against), it's usually wires lifting them
My dog definitely knows it’s moving and she hates it.
Same. He shivers. I think he hates glass elevators more than standard elevators.
The only acceptable elevator was in our old apartment. It meant he didn't have to do stairs. Nowadays, his old bones get carried up stairs anyways.
I don’t think we’ve ever had her in a glass elevator. I’m not sure if she’d hate it more or less. What she hates the most is in Canada a lot of the hotels have a kind of grate/rug thing at the main entrance. I’ve seen them in America too but I think the Canadian ones are deeper, probably with an actual drain to better handle snow coming off shoes in the winter. They often move when you walk on them and she will not walk on them anymore. She’ll either try to go around or fully leap over it in desperation. It’s like she thinks it’s a trapdoor.
I hate the elevator at work. The building has two elevators from the 70s and at last one of them is usually broken. Once it's repaired the other one breaks. Both of them make strange noises and vibrations if you ride them...
I was at a festival years ago and a couple was sat next to me with a dog that looked like a German Shepherd cross that was clearly on edge, looking around at the crowd walking by. Then a guy with a kid on his shoulders came near. All you could see at first was the guys shoulders and the kid's head above his. You couldn't see the kid's legs because the guy had his arms wrapped around them. The dog jumped up and started barking its head off at them. Until they got to the point where you could see them side on. As soon as the dog realised what was going on it immediately stopped barking and sat back down. I've often wondered what that dog thought was going on at first.
Human, human, human, HUMANTAUR, human, human, ...
"WHY IS NOBODY REACTING TO THIS ABOMINATION???"
My dog loves the elevator, definitely cant tell the difference since both floors are the same, keeps going to our downstairs neighbors door like its our own before smelling it and realising her mistake.
I mean... I also went into my neibours apartment a couple times by mistake.
Looking at my dog, I think he understands elevators. Maybe not that why it goes, but probably does that it goes. Sometimes I think animals have better spatial awaerness then humans.
Some do, many don't. Humans are actually really graceful compared to most animals and intuitively do very complex things in space. Tossing a paper ball into a garbage can from ten feet away is an almost uniquely human ability. You ever see a dog try to fit a long stick through a narrow door? Their ability to judge relative sizes and distance is terrible, comparatively.
I have seen too many videos of small monkeys and big apes throwing their dong to agree with your paper ball theory. Also frogs don't throw balls but are great at catching insects, a lot of other animals have great spatial awareness when it comes to hunting prey. But tbh, I doubt wether they could grasp the concept of a box going up and down like humans do.
Have seen too many videos of dogs trying to take long sticks through narrow doors to disagree with you there though. Personally I think dogs are just not that smart after all that (in)breeding we did. I'm not calling dogs stupid, don't want the world to dislike me.
Frogs and archerfish and chameleons and such have evolved to do that one thing, it's more like a preprogrammed algorithm than spacial awareness. And they miss a fair amount if you sit and watch them, that just doesn't make the Animal Planet highlight reel.
Speaking of highlight reels, that kind of confirmation bias also applies to poop-slinging monkeys. They literally don't have the musculature for fine control, they just throw a lot of shit.
...but apes, monkies, and humans still aren't most species.
I know there are dogs that understand how to use the subway, which is basically a horizontal elevator.
Also birds!
The tweet that inspired Ben Stiller to start Severance
Season 3: Take your pet to work day.
Will Smith: “Can a dog compose a symphony or paint a great work of art?”
Incarcerated robot: “Can you?”
Yes, but will you like it? While a dog just can't.
While I've never been able to ask a dog myself, I'd imagine they can smell the changing space.
Friend, I don't understand elevators.
should be an insane clown posse lyric
Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?
Box goes up and down, takes you with.
Dogs understand elevators.
There was a Fraggle Rock sketch about this with the Explorer guy
Speaking of which can you watch fraggle rock anywhere today? No? Ok fuck Disney 🏴☠️
You make me want to watch Fraggle Rock again. Apparently it's on Apple TV+ and they made new seasons. Or, you can find it the other way...
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