Do dogs experience nostalgia? - eviltoast

For that matter, do any animals other than humans get nostalgic?

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    I had a dog named Ellie. She had this little whimper moan thing she would do when she wanted something, and you had to go through the The List™ to determine what it was.

    “Is her hungry?”

    “Does her want a to-to” (toy)

    Et cetera.

    She wouldn’t stop her whimper until you said the right item.

    One time I had exhausted The List™ and was just trying random things because the whimpering was getting a little old at this point and I was desperate. So I asked “do you wanna go see the kitty balls?”

    The kitty balls we a collection of stray cats at a Walmart we lived near nearly a decade prior. She had not been to see the kitty balls in at least 8 years.

    She lost her fucking mind. Jumping up and down (not an easy task on an old girl with messed up legs from getting hit by a car), barking, spinning around. I loaded her up in the car and drove two hours so she could stare out the window at stray cats in the back corner of a Walmart parking lot.

    I miss her a lot. And apparently, she missed the kitty balls