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Originally Posted by peacegirl
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Originally Posted by LarsMac
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
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I've never known a dog who could absolutely identify a person purely by site. Though a neighbor's Greyhounds were close. They would see her coming way out, and be pretty damned sure it was her, but they still needed that final sniff at the gate to be sure. |
That’s not what people here keep insisting. They say that through experiments with levers (which specious was trying to goof on), it proves dogs can recognize familiar faces by sight alone. Could something be amiss using these experiments which try to confirm what conflicts with observation? Moreover, the dog you mentioned may have responded to his owner due to time of day that the dog anticipates the owner coming home or the sound of the car. One’s gait also could have played a part in recognition. Even shape of an object can cause a reaction. The fact that his smell was needed to confirm his owners identity tells us that sight alone is not enough for true recognition. |
Our vet says that Dogs see much differently than people do.
And people can look very different to a dog every day. Their color vision is far less capable than ours, and we wear all sorts of different clothes, all the time.
Cats are much better at site recognition than dogs.
It is very easy to confuse a dog based on site alone.