Do dogs remember when they were puppies?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Dogs have an amazing sense of smell, incredible hearing, and the most adorable tail wags. But do they remember anything from when they were puppies? We asked canine cognition researcher Alexandra Horriwitz to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s dog-gone delightful? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’re paw-sitive we’ll help find an answer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.
0:06.0	Answering those questions that make you go, um, um, moment of um, um, moment of um comes to you from APM studios. I'm Molly Bloom.
0:27.7	Um.
0:32.2	Oh, hey there. Don't mind me. I'm just knitting adorable matching sweaters for me and my dog, Honeybee.
0:38.7	That's right.
0:39.6	I have a dog now.
0:41.8	Honeybee is a sweet little hound dog with brown and black fur, big brown eyes, and a million-dollar smile.
0:48.6	She's almost two years old, which makes her like a dog teenager.
0:52.8	We never knew Honeybee as a puppy,
0:54.6	although it is 1,000% certain that she was a real cutie-patootie,
0:58.8	but I wonder if she remembers being a puppy.
1:02.1	Did she ever trip over her own floppy ears?
1:05.0	Did she have a favorite tree or street sign to pee on?
1:08.4	Did she prefer playing fetch or chomping on squeaky toys?
1:12.7	Anissa and Lisea had the same question.
1:15.4	Do dogs remember anything for when they were puppies?
1:27.3	The quick answer is we don't exactly know.
1:31.3	I'm Alexandra Horowitz.
1:33.3	I study dog behavior and cognition at Barnard College in New York City, and I've written
1:38.8	several books on the mind of the dog.
1:41.9	I think this is a great question, we all wonder this when we look at our
1:45.3	dogs. We think, you know, what was your life like before we knew you and when you were with
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