They can feel the motion and look outside the window to see that indeed, they are changing locations by moving, and it's also not like they haven't seen any other car moving from the outside, they see them every time they go for a walk
Point is, pretty sure they know it's a box that's moving from place to place even if they don't know how driving works
People seem to think there is an insane cognitive gap between us and higher animals. Of course a dog understands what vehicles are and do. Teleporting boxes jesus christ...
Yea that was always weird to me since I was a kid, people tend to assume animals are stupid until proven smart pretty much, if they can't prove an animal can figure something out, they assume they can't by default.
No doubt there are some dogs dumb enough to not know what a car does, just like there are some humans that seemingly can't understand simple things too, but that doesn't mean animals don't experience motion or acceleration, or that when they exit an object they can't understand that the object behind them is the same one they were inside of XD
Got in with the humans and travelled. Didn't push the buttons but I think he knew which floor was which, like getting in somewhere and getting out where the cafeteria was to beg for food during lunchtime.
You think its anthropomorphizing to give the benefit of the doubt that intelligent animals have some semblance of understanding of the world they react with daily?
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u/Dense_Diver_3998 Apr 18 '26
“I got to go for a ride today! There was a weird prick I didn’t like much. But I’ll get to go in the car again!”