It turns out that no matter how long it takes, dogs never forget you...
🔎 Dogs have good memories, for their favorite toys, people with good feelings, the way home, can clearly remember. But then again, it seems like he doesn't have a good memory, and he will selectively forget about the mistakes he made, being lectured by his owner, or even being abandoned...
So if you leave him one day, will he forget you? And how long will it take?
🕑 Memory carriers for dogs
Humans link memory images through memory carriers, such as things that happened, smells of the moment, profound words...
When these relevant carriers are touched, memory images are created.
But with regard to dogs, science states that dogs do not have memory carriers, but only through a combination of being with people and the experience of being with them, which is called emotional association. 🧠
❣️ What are emotional associations?
A dog's memories are associated with how they feel in the moment, but this is something that needs to be associated with what happened during the time spent with the human.
If you are happy in the moment and call your dog over and pet him gently and then give him a treat, then the dog will associate being called by you and reaping the pleasure as part of his memory. From then on, when you call him over, he'll think you're about to do what makes him happy! 💓.
If he's excitedly chewing on a cardboard box and you immediately scold him and put the box away, the dog will also associate playing with the cardboard box with being scolded by you. When he encounters you and the cardboard box together again, he will associate the last image with anxiety and fear. 💔
❓ So how long does it take for a dog to forget you ❓ .
✅ Dogs are selective in remembering what he wants to remember, that's why he selectively forgets a lot of things.
✅ But for every aspect of you, it seems that dogs will remember it exceptionally well. This includes your smell, your voice, your appearance, the steps you take, and even if you've moved, he'll remember the address he once had. He may not be able to remember the beautifully detailed images of his time with you, but the emotions of love, pleasure, and joy you once brought to him he will not choose to forget.
💡Maybe you have had to change jobs, move, change the city you live in for one reason or another, and your family doesn't ...... have to be separated from your dog. Endured the pain of fostering them or giving them to another owner.
💡 In the dog's world, they will always treat you as the only owner and love. Not even realizing that when you send him away, it could be the last time you see him. To their world, it seems like you're just gone for a brief moment, and he'll be waiting obsessively for the rest of his time.
💚 Dogs will always love you as you are. Remembering the wonderful emotions and feelings that will come from his time with you, as soon as he hears your voice and familiar scent and sees you again. He will run to you without hesitation.
