Dogs Telling The Time

[Monaro Pete]

As most of you know, I have a Rottweiler called Monkey.

Now my fiancée drives down from Sheffield every Friday night to stay the weekend with us.

Every Friday my dog knows Di is on her way down, she sits or lies at the door looking for her arrival. The slightest noise & she's looking.
She's always keen with noises & doesn't miss much, but she definitely knows that it's that time of the week again.

On the odd occasion Di couldn't get down, Monkey just acted normal.
They're more cleverer than we give them credit for

[perelaar]

Yep. My 2 labradors know to the minute when it is 7 PM - feeding time. And woe to the one who is late with feeding them!

[macabethiel]

Our Old Chihuhua Ben who is 15 this July and is hard of hearing will go out through the cat flap down our drive and sit or lie down looking through the wrought iron gates at around home time.

When the wife's Jeep is out of sight but within earshot as she turns onto our road he will start a low bark with tail wagging as she reverses up the drive. He seems to know the sound of her vehicle as various diesel vans and cars are all ignored as they drive past.

Likewise when it's Bin Day he starts his Bark when they are a coupe of roads away !

[solarman216]

When we lived at the top of our lane, we overlooked a small field with a white mare called Lucy, Pat her owner worked shifts at a local supermarket so her visiting times were sporadic to say the least but Lucy would be at the gate waiting a full 5 minutes before Pat arrived, "How did she know?" she could not have heard Pats car over a mile away!, we live 50 Miles from Dover, when I was trucking abroad, we had a Crow that knew when I landed at Dover, now that is another story, Rick

[rustic]

Our cat was the same, he knew when my wife was a few hundred yards away, he would jump down and mew by the door, I was trained too, I would then go into the garage and open the garage door, just as she turned into the drive.

When the cat sadly passed away I gave my wife the bell push to a wireless door bell, she pressed it as she arrived, great when it was pouring down with rain lol.

Fitting an automatic garage door is not easy, the canopy arm type would take away too much headroom, and the Mav just scrapes in now.
A roller shutter type might work, like the crocodile door advert, but I guess would be quite expensive.

[briggie]

Originally Posted by solarman216

When we lived at the top of our lane, we overlooked a small field with a white mare called Lucy, Pat her owner worked shifts at a local supermarket so her visiting times were sporadic to say the least but Lucy would be at the gate waiting a full 5 minutes before Pat arrived, "How did she know?" she could not have heard Pats car over a mile away!, we live 50 Miles from Dover, when I was trucking abroad, we had a Crow that knew when I landed at Dover, now that is another story, Rick

i used to have a talking cow !!! ..... ( but I got divorced )

[macabethiel]

Originally Posted by solarman216

When we lived at the top of our lane, we overlooked a small field with a white mare called Lucy, Pat her owner worked shifts at a local supermarket so her visiting times were sporadic to say the least but Lucy would be at the gate waiting a full 5 minutes before Pat arrived, "How did she know?" she could not have heard Pats car over a mile away!, we live 50 Miles from Dover, when I was trucking abroad, we had a Crow that knew when I landed at Dover, now that is another story, Rick

Another Crow story.

When I lived at home circa 1966 we lived well in the countryside near Sutton-on the-Hill in Derbyshire. My younger brothers best mate we nicknamed Scruff for self evident reasons.

Scruff was a great lad and he came from a family of about 8 siblings his Dad being a farm worker and HGV driver. Scruff hand reared a Crow and it would follow him as he cycled down the lane to our house and then land on Scruffs head when he stopped.

This Crow would follow Scruff to his School about a mile away on Long Lane and be waiting for him when it was home time. Sadly he became too tame and he was shot by some local youths a couple of years later.

I was quite saddened to learn many years later that Scruff was killed in a car accident near Ashbourne when he was in his 20's.

[macabethiel]

Originally Posted by rustic

Fitting an automatic garage door is not easy, the canopy arm type would take away too much headroom, and the Mav just scrapes in now.
A roller shutter type might work, like the crocodile door advert, but I guess would be quite expensive.

I can identify with that when we had our double garage built circa 1989 I asked the builder to fit a 6 ft 6 ins door that was horizontally tracked so I could fit an electric opener when funds permitted. He ended up fitting a canopy door that is vertically tracked so when I came to fit an electric opener had to have the dreaded canopy arm convertor.

The American Chamberlain Kit was £199 purchased from the Sunday Times Magazine circa 1991 with 2 remotes and included the arm. The motor was a hefty Chamberlain unit 1/4 h.p. that still works fine today.
I had to fit a new gear and worm drive about 10 years ago purchased via Amazon for £12.00. About 3 years ago the Bowden cable snapped so I got some spares from e-bay and replaced one end wheel to a gear wheel and fitted a full chain drive but retaining the old tensioner adjustment that used to keep the cable taut. The Guy who sold me the chain knew my exact model when I told him how I had originally bought the kit. I decided against replacing the whole unit with the much quieter belt drive unit on his advice.

To this day I still regularly crack my head on the Canopy Arm when I walk down the center of the garage !