Your Dog Won’t Remember Most of the Happy Moments You Provided

Ok, I know the title seems really harsh and misleading, but it’s just a fact of life.

Researchers have been testing for a long time now the different memory capacities and functions in all kinds of animals. Humans, on one hand, have an extremely adept short-term and arbitrary memory capacity. Other animals including dogs though, don’t retain as much of the kind of information you want them to. They are more finely-tuned and trained to memorize the facts they need for survival.

If it only pertains to social and emotional aspects of life, their brains most likely throw that stuff (*their brains would also consider it useless crap) out. So your dog definitely remembers that you are a vital part of his survival and are a loving member of his family, but he probably won’t remember that specific time when you took him out for dinner. Anyways, all that fancy talk should be taken with a grain of salt since memory is such a diverse and deep subject.

What do you think? Does this make you feel different about your pup?