Re: cause and effect – conscious choice or not…

[Diesel73]

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and i am very sad that you didn’t mention my blow up sheep comment.  :'( i was very proud of that one (i know i know, small things amuse small minds….  😀 )

Bwahahaha  😀 . Tell you what; this weekend i’m going back to the store that has vibrating dogbeds…. will ask if they got inflateble sheep for my boys  >:D .  😀 hahaha

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naaah – what goes in suitcase associated with what has been pleasurable experience in past – one reaction acording to memory and chemical release in body …

Is that not how memory is created too? Brain making new bridges between….. uhm neuronen? (long time since i studied biologie  ::)  :-[ ) It is a physical thing in the brain too.

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ah – but body language can be very subtle – and dogs can smell and detect changes in body chemicals etc – so there may be sufficient difference when you are expecting OH home to give them signals that to them result in a particular consequence – ie OH arriving home; ditto for going to friend’s house.

True. I don’t agree that is always how dogs know who is coming when, but what you say is true.

Got different example. From tues-til friday, store open from 8.30 till 19.00. Even if wife and i are in store and boys in livingroom, so they don’t see, nor hear us…. they won’t bark at all at the doorringer til 19.00. Someone comes in or goes out at let’s say 19.15, they bark to say stranger’s coming.And how they know it’s saterday and we close at 16.00…. is beyond me  ??? . You, Lassie, anyone, tell me. (i like picking brains  😀 . )