{"id":6199,"date":"2022-05-13T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-is-the-memory-span-of-a-dog\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T12:24:20","slug":"what-is-the-memory-span-of-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-is-the-memory-span-of-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the memory span of a dog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy counter-decimal ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-is-the-memory-span-of-a-dog\/#What_is_the_memory_span_of_a_dog\" title=\"What is the memory span of a dog?\">What is the memory span of a dog?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-is-the-memory-span-of-a-dog\/#Do_dogs_remember_things_long_term\" title=\"Do dogs remember things long term?\">Do dogs remember things long term?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-is-the-memory-span-of-a-dog\/#How_long_do_dogs_remember_what_they_did\" title=\"How long do dogs remember what they did?\">How long do dogs remember what they did?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-is-the-memory-span-of-a-dog\/#Will_my_dog_remember_me_after_10_years\" title=\"Will my dog remember me after 10 years?\">Will my dog remember me after 10 years?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_the_memory_span_of_a_dog\"><\/span>What is the memory span of a dog?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The function of the brain that stores short term memory can only deal with around seven items and only hold those memories for only a few seconds at a time. Studies suggest that dogs, along with humans and many other species, have an average short term memory span of around <b>27 seconds<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_dogs_remember_things_long_term\"><\/span>Do dogs remember things long term?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Dogs can hold things in memory for a long time, Udell said. But what they remember and how long they can remember it for has a lot to do with context. For instance, if owners leave for military service, dogs can remember them years later, suggesting that owner-dog bonds are important to them.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_long_do_dogs_remember_what_they_did\"><\/span>How long do dogs remember what they did?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Dogs have a short-term memory of <b>less than two minutes, which isn&#8217;t that bad considering humans have the longest memory on the planet and some people can&#8217;t seem to remember something for more than 30 seconds.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Will_my_dog_remember_me_after_10_years\"><\/span>Will my dog remember me after 10 years?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The fact of the matter is that <b>your dog will almost always remember you, regardless of how long you&#8217;re gone.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents What is the memory span of a dog?Do dogs remember things long term?How long do dogs remember what they did?Will my dog remember me after 10 years? What is the memory span of a dog? The function of the brain that stores short term memory can only deal with around seven items&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118268,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions\/118268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}