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Originally Posted by David Bailey  Hmmm - probably not the best podcast - mainly because Clive Wynne seemed to be trying to teach you the obvious at times! Even so, he does seem to genuinely want to understand this phenomenon, and to me, that is the important thing. If dogs don't use Ψ to do this trick, I want a reasonably watertight explanation of how they do it!
One of Clive Wynne's big ideas - mentioned several times - is that dogs pick up on what articles their owners are taking out with them. A simple control for this would be to ask the owner (sorry, I forget her name) to take all her gear with her (assuming she can fit into the boot of her car) every time she does a test.
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Sorry if I'm asking a daft question. I haven't really been following this dogs thing. But why is this an issue if the person is coming home at a
random time?
Picking up a certain bag might predispose a dog to exhibit the appropriate behaviour at a specific time. This is remarkable in itself, but many will feel it's not as remarkable as telepathy. But if the owner comes home at a random time, this disposition for the dog to get up and go to the door (or whatever it does) at a specific time, will not correlate with when the owner returns home any more than any other time surely?