# Should I buy my dog a watch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 8, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491 "2006-02-08T02:44:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491/21 "2006-02-09T09:55:09Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > A dog needs a watch like a cat needs a blender. > [SIZE=1] You trying to say that a cat wouldn’t enjoy putting mice in a blender? Everything I know about cats indicates the contrary. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491/22 "2006-02-09T09:58:20Z")
I swear your post wasn’t there when I composed mine, **brian** , although the timestamps make me a liar. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491/23 "2006-02-09T17:29:37Z")
> [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > A dog needs a watch like a cat needs a blender. But a cat _in_ a blender, every dog needs one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491/24 "2006-02-09T17:45:22Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I’ve seen a house fly. I’ve never seen an elephant fly. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491/25 "2006-02-09T17:48:24Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > I find it pretty implausible that the dog is picking up the car’s sounds ten minutes early; the car would still be miles away at that point. Traffic must be great in your area. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491/26 "2006-02-09T18:51:25Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I was gone for 2 years in China. > > I came back and my dog looked at me like I had been gone for a couple days. Maybe the look was just the way the rigor mortis set in. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491/27 "2006-02-09T20:07:08Z")
My dog growing up got a nightly jerky treat at 9pm. 95% of the time he’d come out from under the end table in the family room where he liked to sleep and start begging for his treat right at 9pm. Occasionally he was early, but as long as it was a normal night where we finished dinner around 7pm and then went into the family room to watch TV for the rest of the evening, he never forgot to ask for his jerky treats. 🙂 So cute! Not sure what external clues we were giving off, being under the table he was out of direct eyeshot and we generally waited for him to ask before getting off the couch and heading to the treat closet. ---
**Author:** ![Survey1215](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491/28 "2006-02-09T21:04:15Z")
We have three dogs and they seem to work off the actions (conscious and otherwise) of my wife and I. We have the alarm set for 5:30 a.m. Monday - Friday. They wake us up (well, not they, I guess- Butter is the primary culprit, Peaches does it maybe 1/3 of the time, and old lady Scuba is still snoring away) at 5:15. Every stinking morning. I figure my wife and I have the internal clock ticking and we start getting restless 15-20 mins before the alarm goes off, giving the dogs an audio/visual cue that its wake-up time. They do act differently if we’re gone for different amounts of time, however. If we go to a movie and come home its no big deal, but getting home after work generally results in a doggy party - dancing, showing off toys, kisses, etc. Whether its b/c we’re home or more of a ‘thank god, i can take a leak and get fed soon’ mentality I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491/29 "2006-02-09T21:42:08Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > Only if his name is Satchel. And you also have a cat named Bucky. I’ve noticed in the last few strips, Satch is not wearing the watch. Wha hoppon? Did I miss someting? ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491/30 "2006-02-10T01:00:08Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > I’ve noticed in the last few strips, Satch is not wearing the watch. Wha hoppon? Did I miss someting? I thought he lost it or it got stolen. I remember there was a strip about it a while back. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491/31 "2006-02-10T08:42:54Z")
Dogs, to the best of my knowledge, have no concept of time and cannot quantify passages of time. Examples given to the contrary can be explained by circadian rhythm and a variety of intermittent hormonal brain baths. Now, cats, on the other hand, are regular time bandits… 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-buy-my-dog-a-watch/343491.md?page=1)