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with my husband's dog and he definitely knew when my husband was coming home. We had suspected it, and it was so cool to get proof.
We tested him for 6 weeks, IIRC (it was about a decade ago), and kept meticulous notes of the time, on both ends. I wasn't working so did the observations. When Waylon would do his anticipation actions (pacing, moving to the bed by the door, alertly watching the door and cocking his head at every sound) I'd write down the time. A few times I saw him wake from a nap just to do his anticipation actions.
My husband was working weird, varied hours, so his patterns were unpredictable. We eliminated tells, stuff like him calling before leaving work and me starting to cook dinner. I think we were able to do pretty good experiment because of his weird schedule.
The cool thing is Waylon was able to tell when my husband was thinking about getting off work- when he was wrapping stuff up at the end of shift and thinking about the drive, thinking about getting home and relaxing. He had a 40 min. commute and Waylon would alert about one hour before he walked in the door.
Even though we had long suspected Waylon was ... something, I don't want to call it "psychic," it was more of a super special and close bond with my husband, we were surprised to find out how very accurate he was.
He was a good boy. We still miss him every day. Was going to add a pic, but my wifi is slow as molasses today.