A purebred dog has purebred puppies. After about six months, a puppy is sold. If the puppy and its mother happened to reunite, would they remember each other?

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Here are two takes on the canine memory: Research on how dogs perceive time is limited. But we can learn more about it when look at the extensive research done on other animals, such as rodents, birds and primates. In his studies on how animals perceive time, animal cognition researcher William Roberts made some remarkable conclusions regarding animal memories, anticipation and more. He says that animals are "stuck in time." By this he means that, without the sophisticated abilities it takes to perceive time -- like truly forming memories -- animals only live in the present. Roberts thinks animals are "stuck in time" because they can't mentally "time travel" backward and forward. http://animals.howstuffworks.com/pets/dogs-perceive-time1.htm The dog memory works more like an image or an instant memory (like a photographic flash) connected to a particular smell or to a pleasant or unpleasant feeling. Similar to the rest of its intellectual activities, they are brought about by the process of association. For example, if the owner goes on vacations and leaves his dog in an unknown dog residence, the owner will leave it memory. In a certain way, he will have never existed. In the first ten or fifteen days the animal will feel totally abandoned, since it wont recognize the territory, nor will it be part of its pack, and if its of weak character or a little sensitive, it can suffer severe depression. Psychology of the dog is such that dogs that are very close to their owners feel utterly abandoned; they stop eating for several days and can get undernourished. When its owner returns, its probable that from far away it recognizes them by their smell or by the car's sound; which become stimulants reminding it right then of their owner. http://www.seefido.com/html/canine_dog_psychology.htm Jul 10 08, 5:37 PM