Did anyone see the report on this mornings BBC breakfast about the physic bichon frise, Dexter?

His owner reckons he is physic as he always knows when she is about to return home and a cambridge university professor has done research into physic dogs and has come to the conclusion that they may well be such a thing.

Now my own dogs always become unsettled about 10 mins before my husband returns home from work but I reckon this is due to the fact that he returns at the same time every evening and they recognise the signals of his return such as me preparing tea and me saying "daddy's home soon".

So what do you think on this,do any of you out there have physic dogs and if so how?

> do any of you out there have physic dogs and if so how?

No, none of mine have studied physics or chemistry but maybe a little biology :)

I don't know about phsycic but my lot know when I am coming home and I don't have a set time.  My pack of akitas were brilliant at this to the point that when they started gettting unsettled, my OH would know it was time to put the tea on cos I would always arrive within 10 minutes!!  We couldn't think of how they knew.  Different times/days, sometimes I took the car other times public transport then walking.  No idea how but they were always right!
I always figured that dog communicate through body language but maybe not if this is the case! lol.

OOps  must do a spell check next time.!!

My lot are ...to cheese. I can open the fridge door 100 times a day but the moment I am going to get out the cheese they arrive in the kitchen 30 secs before I touch the fridge door !!
I have no idea what they pick up on but it works for them 100%.
As for knowing when I am due home, when we go away for a while even overnight the dog sitter says that they are waiting a good 10 mins before we arrive home. Even if she does not know we are on the way?

Aileen

My Akita seems to know when my OH is coming home - it is never the same time every day and it can be when he's popped into town or fishing etc....about 10 - 15 mins before he walks though the door she gets unsettled, quite excited etc.  She has lived in the same house as my OH for 2 1/2 years but has formed a really strong bond with him from day 1.

My Rottie bitch seems to know when I am going to walk her which again is odd because at a weekend we have no routine to walk times....I can sit on the sofa thinking I am going to take them out and within 5/10 mins she is bouncing off the walls.

I have a border collie who is a mind reader - it has advantages and serious disadvantages!  Most dogs can pick up on our thoughts but you have to be careful what you think with Ski.  I went to an animal communicator about him as he has serious ring nerves and it comes down to him picking up that the judge thought he was 'crap' at his first show - poor dog he has a huge ego and it's easily deflated.  I have to focus on the obstacles he's doing when we compete as if I think of the next one he doesn't finish eg the weaves which is a serious thing for me as I like to think ahead.

I know it happens as I've had two mental 'conversations' with two different horses and wish I could do the same with my dogs.

I know they pick up on things - when I returned from going to have a dog pts at the vets (she was already there) I returned to absolute silence in the house which is unheard of and they were all so subdued it was unbelievable.

So I know they can be psycic - it's us who are poor at picking these things up.

I know it happens as I've had two mental 'conversations' with two different horses and wish I could do the same with my dogs.

It definitely happens with dogs.  100% convinced.

For me, it was almost 50 years ago with a Border Collie.

Then 35 years ago, with a Toy Poodle.

I still have dogs, but why did it only happen with 2?

the animal communicator said that it just depended.. you can work on your ability to pick up these things, but often we do it subconsciously.. I don't know why it happened with the two horses and only once... I can only guess that we were then pretty well in tune and they didn't need to communicate - or it was done more subtley... with dogs they're more complex but again it may be that you're not aware of a communication with them, it's fascinating stuff...

Yes, I agree it happens all the time, but not convinced it is psychic.

I think lots of factors often come into play which we don't realise, my girl always jumps up when it is time to go out whatever time, I can get up to go to a different room, make a coffee and she will not move but the moment I think to myself let's go out now, she's up on her feet looking at me tail wagging, personally I think our thoughts whether about food, walkies, worried everything gets picked up by slight body chemical changes or differences in our heart rates as opposed to reading our thoughts.

I think dogs and many other animals pick up every signal we have and we don't even know we use. My husband rings me approx 4 times a day and comes home at all different times, my girl knows which call is he's on his way home I guess by my heart rate or voice who knows but she is looking for him out of the window she knows when we are all coming home, hears his/my car from who knows how far and I guess some dogs hear footsteps from a long distance too.

Personally I don't think it is psychic, I just think it is the miracle of a dogs make up they pick up on everything.

> I went to an animal communicator about him as he has serious ring nerves and it comes down to him picking up that the judge thought he was 'crap' at his first show - poor dog

I have often wondered if it would be worth contacting an animal communicator but I am probably very skeptical about whether it could work, Can the communicator actually explain to the dog  what is required and change their behaviour? For example one of my daughters dogs is not good with other dogs and so has to spend a lot of time on the lead. This dog loves running and would much prefer to be off the lead but as she cannot be trusted not to chase and nip other dogs is muzzled when off the lead and only let off when my daughter can see there is no-one around.
Could an animal communicator actually explain to the dog that she would get a lot more freedom and not have to wear the hated muzzle if she stopped her antisocial behaviour with other dogs?

Im not sure if my dog is intuned to me coming home, as I am not there to see hehe But she is like that with my boyfriend (maybe because he has a load sporty car) but still gives him a warning bark as he walks through the door just incase :)
I live next door to a shop and cars are always beeping in the car park and she does not bat an eyelid, but when it is my son getting droppd off (he gets dropped at shops) and his dad beeps the horn, she noes and starts going mad.
I would think she would no when I am on my way home becasue of how intuned she is with me but again I dont no :)

I think dogs are more in tune than we are, we tend to question too much. Have you ever had the prickly feeling in your neck that you were being watched, and then on turning round see that someone is looking at you, or get the feeling that the phone is going to ring a few seconds before it does. I think the dog has this type of sense but far more advanced than us. This is probably how they sense when we are on the way home etc.

Naughty I know, but a friend and I used to sit in a public place ( Mcdonalds for example) and just stare at the back of someone across the room, you could watch them start to get uncomfortable and fidget and eventually turn round to see who was staring at them. We of course looked away quickly, but it goes to show that we do have some form of communication apart from the norm.

> I think dogs and many other animals pick up every signal we have and we don't even know we use.

This is the way I would look at it too.  Why look for a pecular answer when there is an obvious one :)

yes they can explain - but of course it depends on the dog as to whether they'll comply or not!  But! you will get a better idea of what's going on with the dog and it will help in training.  It's tough with Ski because he has a big ego - so telling him not to listen to other people's views is pretty tough on him!  He always goes better in the ring where the judge knows him or where the judge is kind....

they do definitely pick up on thoughts, it's uncanny what they do pick up on.

this is who I've used and found excellent

http://incadogtraining.weebly.com/

julia does this by phone and the ether - so it's not like she's picking up on anything or the dogs on her body language or smells.  when she 'talks' to a dog you can tell they're communicating with someone and it's no surprise the responses... with Lexie it was interesting as apparently Lex went on at length about her toy - a ball with holes in on a rope and how much she loved it!  - she meant the pedigree ball I use on a rope only with agility training....

Love the multitudinous spellings of psychic. :-)

I think I had such a bond with my recently departed dog, he just looked at me and we 'talked'. He would anticipate my every move.

My border terrier went ballistic this morning about 15 mins before my OH came home from work (when he would have been leaving work) , my OH was 45 minutes early.........could just be a coincidence but i think they just "know"

Sillysue, I'm slightly concerned at your behaviour!!lol.
That is a deep-rooted instinct from caveman days when we had to be on the lookout for dinos.  Their is a proper name for it but I cannot recall.

Sillysue, I'm slightly concerned at your behaviour!!lol.

Insanity perhaps!! and not a drop of alcohol in sight....unfortunately, - however I never got caught by any prehistoric cavemen ( more's the pity)

My Gramp used to return home from work on a bus (50+ years ago), his dog would leave the house to go and sit & wait at the bus stop for him - the dog would be there before the bus. Sadly one day, he never made it as he got run over on his way :(

My sisters Boxer, with out fail, will go and sit in the garden every Saturday morning, waiting for my Aunty to arrive. Every Monday morning, she will sit & wait at the back door for a different Aunty to arrive. :) Sis lives with my dad, and unfortuntley is not well, she is bed-ridden most of the time, dad doesn't work and his daily routine is the same.
There are no (known) factors that would differentiate these 2 days from all the others, if there is no sort of pyschic knowing, then that dog has a fantastic ability to keep track of the days of the week. The Boxer also seems to have the ability to count, she gets given 6 little biscuits at bedtime, if given less than 6 she will wait for the others (even if 6 haven't been taken from the treat box, so it's not as if she can smell there are more to come).

When I was a little girl our family dog, a golden retriever, would go and sit by the front door a few minutes before my dad would arrive home from work. My mum would then put the kettle on. The psychic bit was that my dad worked shifts and we would never know what time he would get home... but the dog knew...

I worked thurs friday saturday nights for many years my cocker would take himself off to bed at 8pm and I left a few minutes later, when I was off work on holiday his routine didn't alter:e would stick his head around the lounge door when I hadn't left, sigh and go back to his bed.

The bitch in my avatar would say what sounded like " Mam" when she desperately wanted my attention, her dam did the same each time she was about to deliver a pup.

lilyowen,if you find that to be correct,i would find an animal communocator very quickly!if only!

Jet could always tell when I was about to cut her toenails, she'd hide under the dining room table.  Many's the time she knew I was going to cut them before I even thought of it.  :)

"There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio that man does not understand ..."

Ie not yet! If anyone had said 100 years ago that individual households would be able to send colour photos to Australia where they'd be received 2 seconds later, they'd have been locked up!  Mysteries now are often simply scientific facts waiting to be discovered in 100 years' time.

I seem to have some sort of gift for 'healing' just by passing my hands over an animal or human and concentrating for 3-5 minutes - discovered this by accident. Desperate to help a lamb which had collapsed & was deaf/blind from encephalitis, (the vet had said 100% certain to die) I did this 3 times and on 2 of those 3 occasions the lamb immediately got up and walked around. It couldn't hear or see me, nor did I actually touch it. 3rd time still lay there but next am was walking around eating grass, right as rain thereafter.  Also worked on human with frozen shoulder where nothing else had helped.  She was in great pain, couldn't drive, doc had told her to take 2 weeks off work, but after the "hands" her pain disappeared immediately & she drove to work next day with no more problem.  And my Italian Spinone who would get acute arthritis flare-ups sometimes after chasing bunnies.  A v. active & not a v. demonstrative dog with affection, but would stand stock still for a min or two whilst I did healing on the affected area (elbow) and when he'd had enough would move away + smother my hands with profuse licks ...This is NOT magic or luck or placebo btw, but works by the magnetic frequencies every object in the universe emits - stones, grass, tables, dogs, humans - all emit magnetic frequencies - sick creatures emit "wrong" frequencies and healthy ones emit "good", healing frequencies.  I was told this by Prof Cyril Smith, ex Uni of Salford, who was the guy who was always used as expert witness by the people fighting against high voltage power lines back in the 80s/90s.

So - maybe we do give off unconscious clues, but I'd say there's probably much more to it that we simply just don't know about - yet!