NPR Can dogs smell time? Just ask Donut the dog. After decades of wondering, an NPR reporter finally figures out how her husband's family dog knew when the school bus would arrive every day.

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In fact, Donut didn't simply notice the shift in smell, Horowitz said. She likely used it to predict the future — to predict when the school bus would arrive.

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In fact, Donut didn't simply notice the shift in smell, Horowitz said. She likely used it to predict the future — to predict when the school bus would arrive.

After decades of wondering, an NPR reporter finally figures out how her husband's family dog knew when the school bus would arrive every day. She did some digging — and now it all makes scents.

She could smell time, says psychologist Alexandra Horowitz, who studies dog cognition at Columbia University and Barnard College. "I'm not at all surprised that Donut would be able to predict the ...

The mystery dogged our family for decades. How could Donut tell time? And not just the approximate time, but the exact moment before the school bus would arrive. Every. Single. Day. You see, Donut ...

After decades of wondering, an NPR reporter finally figures out how her husband's family dog knew when the school bus would arrive every day. She did some digging — and now it all makes scents.