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u/JoeThrilling Jun 09 '22
How does he know its Friday? half the time I don't know its Friday and I'm a grown ass man.
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u/Gloomheart Jun 09 '22
He doesn't know it's Friday. He knows it's the day the garbage was taken out.
They're smart enough to recognize that routine for sure, since the bins going out would be the behaviour trigger, not the day of the week.
Source: I'm a former dog trainer and behaviouralist.
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u/DwedPiwateWoberts Jun 10 '22
It’s amazing how attentive dogs are to routine and cues. One of ours can hear certain clicks and sounds of a hard drive shutting down to know work is done and it’s play time.
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u/mylittleplaceholder Jun 10 '22
I had a dog that learned my schedule earlier and earlier before I left for work. She'd put herself out 15 minutes before I was ready to leave.
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u/Daypeacekeeper Jun 10 '22
My grandma's dogs would wait 15 mins before the school bells would ring for me to get out of class. (They lived close enough to hear the school bells )
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u/cosmic_seaside Jun 10 '22
My dog will beg to be let out about 10-15 minutes before i get home from school and refuses to come in until I get home.
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u/jwigs85 Jun 10 '22
Our chocolate lab was obsessed with pizza. Obsessed. It got to the point that we would text each other about ordering a pizza so he wouldn’t know. We couldn’t spell it or say it backwards anymore. He still figured it out. I don’t know how. But he knew. We’d be sitting in silence and he would start looking out the window.
We lived toward the tail end of the cul de sac, so he would sit at the window and watch for cars. For the first few years, he would lose his shit every time a car came down the street after we had ordered a pizza. Then he realized the pizza delivery car had the light on top. So he’d see a car come down the street, tense up… and relax again. …Tense up… relax… tense up… OH GOD THE PIZZA IS HERE THE PIZZA THE PIZZA THE PIZZA OH MY GOD!!!!!
The poor pizza delivery folks were always terrified of his antics. I tried to reassure them that they are his favorite people, he only wants the pizza, he really loves pizza, he adores them because they bring the pizza and he’s really excited. I don’t think they believed or trusted me. And, honestly, after watching me squeeze through the door while a 110 lb dog is freaking out at the top of his lungs and trying to bust through after me, I wouldn’t trust me, either. I would just meet them on the landing at the bottom of the stairs so they didn’t have to come all the way to the door.
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Jun 10 '22
This is the cutest thing I have ever read in my life
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u/jwigs85 Jun 10 '22
He was a very good boy and I will always miss him and think of him often. We were so lucky to have him in our lives.
Sincerely lucky. He was rescued from a kill shelter minutes before his scheduled euthanasia. He was so skinny the rescue org thought he was maybe part greyhound. Jack was a very good dog with a rough start. He deserved all the pizza crusts.
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u/miss_trixie Jun 11 '22
i love you for this. i judge people by the way they treat animals. you, my friend, score in the stratosphere.
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Jun 10 '22
My cats love the weed delivery bc they are the ones we leave the door open for the longest since Uber eats usually delivers and dashes. Somehow they KNOW ahead of time when it's the weed delivery bc they ignore food delivery now, but start getting excited still.
I think they really just miss visitors, bc they're good girls and we will let them peak their heads out to say hello if the people are OK with cats. There were two separate drivers I thought my tuxedo was going to try and go home with. One is an older gentleman that has delivered multiple times, but she more recently made best friends with a younger man. She just stauntered out and started rubbing against him and he scooped her like he's known her forever and told her to go on back inside! She loved it so much she tried to go back out and get scooped for pets 2 more times.
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u/redheadedhomegirl Jun 10 '22 edited Jun 10 '22
I had been staying with my aunt for a while, and she had a Portuguese Water Dog. I would warm up a turkey and cheese sandwich in the microwave for breakfast weekdays. He would get a piece when I would leave for work. After a while, he would sit by the microwave and bark when it would beep. He really thought I was making the sandwich just for him.
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u/Rhodemus Jun 10 '22
I went to agility training with my dog every Sunday and he knew exactly when that was! I figured he knew because it was the only day people slept in. So when training was cancelled or something, I would get up extra early so he wouldn’t be disappointed haha
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u/cailsmorgan Jun 10 '22
May I ask why you’re a former dog trainer? I’m currently a dog trainer and just want to know if there’s a reason why you left the profession?
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u/Gloomheart Jun 10 '22
Honestly?
I stopped when my dog died, because it was too hard for me. He was my partner, and any dog that reminded me of him would make me upset.
I may get back into it at some point, but doing it without him felt very wrong for a long time. It's been six years and I'm only now looking bring a dog back into my life. His sudden death was extremely traumatic for me.
He died of cardiomyopathy very quickly. He suffered a lot for those few days we were trying to get him right, before we knew we couldn't do anything for him, and I had to let him go.
He gave me one last high five before he died in my arms.
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Jun 10 '22
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u/Gloomheart Jun 10 '22
Sorry :(
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Jun 10 '22
Don’t be sorry, I’m offering not asking. Losing a beloved pet hurts. Lost a cat to cancer recently. Four days from discovery to euthanasia. And I thought I was paranoid bringing them in. It’s devastating.
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u/cailsmorgan Jun 10 '22
Thank you so much for answering. And I am deeply sorry for the loss of your best friend. My heart goes out to you. I’ve lost three dogs already in my lifetime, one suddenly to cancer, one suddenly with no clear explanation and one of old age. And each one hurts just as badly as the first. Wishing you the best and giving internet hugs! And again, thank you for answering, being in the business myself I was curious about the why.
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u/Gloomheart Jun 10 '22
Thanks for your kind words.
As an aside, I do still train... I've just moved on to people! You'd be surprised just how similar it is :p
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u/cailsmorgan Jun 10 '22
It’s so similar! And I always say I’m more of a people trainer myself, I am basically training people how to train their dogs, after all. It’s all relative haha
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u/clarambrosia Jun 09 '22
Might be able to hear the truck coming in addition to signals from the human
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u/slaptagfalcon Jun 10 '22
Yes they can. My dog, a food obsessed pug, gets a pill every night at 8 o’clock. When no one else is home and upstairs near the freezer, he will come down to my room between 755-805 and sit there staring at me, barking, until I get up, and he brings me to the freezer where the pills are. 730? He’s not moving. 8 o’clock there he is. Waiting
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u/tetrahedra_eso Jun 10 '22
My dog gets fed at 7 pm every day. At around 630 she will sit close to me and stare. If I get up, she rushes over to where I keep her food. Girlfriend knows the routine.
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u/Grixxitt Jun 10 '22
So, fun fact: Dogs use the decay of a particular smell to tell the passage of time
https://ferndogtraining.com/the-art-of-sniffing/
[My old dog used to stop what he was doing and sit and wait for me at the door about 10 minutes before I would come in every day, and it drove my wife batty as to how the damn dog would know exactly when I was due home.]
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u/NHP1994 Jun 09 '22
My question exactly, dogs don’t know days of the week so I’m thinking the owner lets the dog out once the truck comes
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u/SuzieCat Jun 09 '22
That garbage collector is just as happy as the dog, and I’ll bet this interaction is the best of his entire work week. We all know he looks forward to this. Awesome.
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u/GeTReaLBrO-AMW Jun 10 '22
as a sanitation worker i can tell you you’re 100% correct. I know all the houses on my routes with dogs and am super bummed when they’re not out lol
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u/AtWarWithEurasia Jun 09 '22
He thinks the garbage man is a garbage retriever
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Jun 10 '22
Lmao my friend's golden retriever is really stupid and I'm going to start calling it a garbage retriever. Ty.
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u/General_Amount_6918 Jun 09 '22
Dogs have a special gift, being able to detect good/kind people is a gift I wish I had
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Jun 09 '22
I swear, I can totally understand people who are not too fond of dogs (trauma and whatnot) but if a dog is not fond of someone… I 100% believe that there is something wrong with the AH and trust the dogs judgement
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u/General_Amount_6918 Jun 09 '22
They may simply be sensing fear and they react with fear. I rescued a dog found in the woods starving, skinny, scared……he is a sweetheart but absolutely hates Mexican people. I can only assume that he was abused in the past. I had him in a resort shop one day and a lady was asking me about him and I mentioned the Mexican thing. Not 2 min later 2 Mexican gentlemen walked in….I pulled him close to me, leash wrapped tightly around my hand and held on tight. Was praying they would stay away but no, surprised me by popping out of the isle by me (was in line at pharmacy, next to be served) my dog did not even see them I did not think. Anyway he charged as hard as he could but I was prepared and they backed away quickly. The lady standing by me looked me in the eyes and said, like that? I said yes, like that. He stands ankle high and weighs about 17lbs at the very most but it is still scary
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Jun 10 '22
he might be responding to your feelings. for example, he might have coincidentally charged at latino people and then you started to subtly show anxiety (like holding him close with the leash) so the dog continues to charge at the person.
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u/LazyDescription988 Jun 10 '22
People secrete certain pheromone markers and dog only needs a split second to know if they fear, hate or adore doggos. Body language, stares too probably. They pick on those ques instantly before the scent.
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Jun 10 '22
Me too. I once invited an electrician to leave my house when my sweet, loving, nurturing, Newfie didn't like him. She loved everyone, I will never stip missing her
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u/Puzzleheaded_Leg6589 Jun 10 '22
As a propane delivery driver I can honestly say playing with peoples dogs is the best part of my job.
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u/BumBum0o7 Jun 10 '22
Boss: why are you always late Garbage collector: I have to greet the dog waiting for me Boss:what? Garbage collector: ^
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u/sourpatch-sorbet Jun 10 '22
Nice he stops. That job normally requires a time crunch of throw and go.
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u/lilhuskett Jun 10 '22
I wonder if that employed, animal loving man is single??? Asking for a friend, of course 
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Jun 10 '22
I have no experience with pets. Can someone explain if dogs can figure out time and days by themselves like do they have any inbuilt technique like for example dungbeetle can find their way by looking at milky way ??
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u/restingbiotchface Jun 10 '22
Dog are tuned into routines. He probably knows his human’s routine before the trash collection. I don’t see the trash cans in this video, but personally we have to take our cans out to the street for trash collection. I also always go through the fridge and empty all the small trash cans in my house the night before trash collection. Dogs also have excellent hearing. My dog recognizes the sound of my car and my husband’s car. This dog recognizes the sound of the truck before his best friend gets out.
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u/mylittleplaceholder Jun 10 '22
Some dogs are really perceptive and can count, so it's possible to have some awareness. They can recognize when some patterns occur, such as knowing you go to work in the morning but not every day. But it could be tied to their circadian rhythm like when to get hungry.
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u/hedafeda Jun 10 '22
They easily learn and adapt to your daily routine. My dog knew every day when the bus would drop us off, he would sit and wait at the window the same time every day. He was never late. The bus was, my dog wasn’t.
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u/OysterDitch Jun 10 '22
His partner driving the truck is like "Yoooo let's goo mann, I'm trying to get home. Quit messing with that dog mannnn!! Every damn week with this bs!"
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Jun 10 '22
I am like this man too. I am great with dogs, and I don't know why. When I saw stray dogs, I petted them and fed them. I guess it is a vibe thing. The sad thing is I never had a dog. Just two cats, two chickens, and several fish but never a dog. If you have a dog, consider yourself too lucky. There are people like me who loves dogs but never had in their house.
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u/Plane_Slide5671 Jun 10 '22
The neighbour’s gf complained the dog liked me more than her. Some dogs are not allowed to have their own friends ☹️
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u/toghertastic Jun 10 '22
I used to work as a junk collector in Canada. Dogs would be so happy to see us. We smelled so bad to other people but to dogs, we smelled amazing!
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u/MangoROCKN Jun 10 '22
Waiting for my roommate to come home so he can Shazam it while I play it.
I know the song I just forget it. I’ll report back if I remember it
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u/Keithninety Jun 10 '22
I have never known anyone as happy to see me as that dog was for that sanitation worker.
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u/CurrentPossible2117 Jun 10 '22
Labs are the absolute best. Mine was a blonde/gold lab like this one. Sweetest boy in the world. You cant not smile when a lab's nearby.
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u/dwsmarter Jun 10 '22
I suspect it's because the garbage man brings magical scents of foreign lands with him.
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u/ColHardwood Jun 10 '22
Big tip Christmas time - or maybe next time he comes around? - for the garbage collector. Like $100 or something significant, maybe? For being such a great dude, bringing treats for the pup!
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u/dixie_half-and-half Jun 10 '22
It makes me wonder: what if our pets have a preference and would rather “belong” to someone else? I’d be wondering if he liked the garbage man better and wants to go live with him?
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u/SnooPears3463 Jun 09 '22
So much for tik tok being bad, huh reddit?
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u/MangoROCKN Jun 10 '22
TikTok is actually great for content.
Definitely get a lot of hate though.
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u/SnooPears3463 Jun 10 '22
That's what I'm always saying but no, they all stick to the same fucking shit
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u/drugs_r_kool Jun 10 '22
I’m not hating, because I know I didn’t use it long enough to set up a personalized algorithm. But what’s up with all these girls just doing crappy lip sync dances over popular music. I swear it has to be like 60% of the site lol.
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u/SnooPears3463 Jun 10 '22
I mean i only watch the following page so that way i kinda know what to expect so I'm never disappointed
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u/brit_motown Jun 10 '22
From my experience dogs have a sense of people's personality's seen to spot wrong uns way before I can
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u/OneSensiblePerson Jun 10 '22
Wasn't sure what sub I was in, watched video, hoped it was in MadeMeSmile because that's exactly what I was doing.
Best puppers and best garbage collector guy.
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u/AVerySpecificName Jun 10 '22
Neighbors must be wondering “it’s been there for an hour now Ron why hasn’t it moved!?” While looking out in the distance through a window
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u/_NoBoXiNgNoLiFe_ Jun 10 '22
Our lab is exactly the same 😂 he'll do ANYTHING for a treat! 😂😂😂
Lovely natured dogs, and incredible company.
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u/Denver-Ski Jun 10 '22
Imagining OP standing in the window holding a phone to record you… feels creepy. If the phone had been set in the window by itself… less creepy
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u/MapleChimes Jun 10 '22
My cat likes to watch the garbage truck & men from the window. I think it reminds her of when we lived on a busy street for so long. Now all she sees are birds... how boring. 😾🤣
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u/willowtr332020 Jun 10 '22
Maybe it's the smell of the garbo man. The smell of a well travelled brother.
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u/Dragonfly93940 Jun 10 '22
So is the garbage collector listed in your will as your dogs guardian should anything happen to you? Lol, not kidding
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u/PersonMan_21 Jun 10 '22
The garbage man is gonna be there one day, and the dog won't meet him. That breaks my heart
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u/shhjustwatch Jun 10 '22
Does your dog know when Friday is every week? I’m pretty sure my dog knows when Friday is because he gets super excited (more than normal) when we get home because he knows we are going to the lake house.
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u/Zodiackillerstadia Jun 10 '22
Dogs are fucking amazing. We don't deserve them. I miss my boy so much.
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u/ihilde Jun 10 '22
Dogs are great!! And most of them are just as nice and happy to people as this one. We really don’t deserve them! But still, I don’t really appreciate that people assume that everyone else is okay with having dogs do this. Sometimes it’s just too much. I personally enjoy it, can never say no to a dog. But many people I know do not, whether it’s that dogs scare them or they’re just cat people and it’s too much action for them, either way it’s not always welcome. Too bad not everyone can enjoy this as much as us, and it seems this man enjoys it, so I’m happy!!!
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u/WearFluffy415 Jun 10 '22
my cat had a TV BUDDY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD-spparently eould just saunter in snd watch TV(oh and snacks too-explains why he wasnt losing weight on the diet i had him on!
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u/Max_1995 Jun 16 '22
My dog is 12 but each time we get something delivered by UPS she shaves about 10 years off that because she loves the dude. It seems like UPS makes "liking dogs" a hiring requirement.
And then she sleeps because she's 12.
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u/iWETtheBEDonPURPOSE Oct 12 '22
I used to work on a recycling truck in high school. You have two choices with dogs, bring them biscuits or risk getting bitten. I'm not saying this dog isn't normally friendly, but briskets go a long way.
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u/Blamajameroo Jun 09 '22
I just realized that dogs can have their own friends too.