Just another normal day

I've seen pretty a dump dog understand elevators well enough to run down the stairs to follow someone that had just gotten into an elevator.

They can probably hear much more clearly than we can that it’s a box moving around on rails in a giant echo tube.
- Sidenote, but most elevators don't use a rail to move (although might use one for stability plus something to apply emergency brakes against), it's usually wires lifting them

do regular dogs go all like 'o shit its the cops' when they see a police dog, or is it just another dog to them?

Don't do anything illegal don't do anything illegal don't do anything illegal SQUIRREL!! Ah crap I did it again...
- Violations of the Dog-Squirrel treaty of 2014 is no laughing matter
Protest dogs are pretty good at recognizing cops vs protesters. Better than people sometimes.
- Long live the memory of Negro Matapacos, greatest of allies. (Loukanikos was also a very good boy)
I don't expect dogs have much of a conception of "cops." They might see them as generic authority figures though.

My dog definitely knows it’s moving and she hates it.

Same. He shivers. I think he hates glass elevators more than standard elevators.

The only acceptable elevator was in our old apartment. It meant he didn't have to do stairs. Nowadays, his old bones get carried up stairs anyways.
- I don’t think we’ve ever had her in a glass elevator. I’m not sure if she’d hate it more or less. What she hates the most is in Canada a lot of the hotels have a kind of grate/rug thing at the main entrance. I’ve seen them in America too but I think the Canadian ones are deeper, probably with an actual drain to better handle snow coming off shoes in the winter. They often move when you walk on them and she will not walk on them anymore. She’ll either try to go around or fully leap over it in desperation. It’s like she thinks it’s a trapdoor.
I hate the elevator at work. The building has two elevators from the 70s and at last one of them is usually broken. Once it's repaired the other one breaks. Both of them make strange noises and vibrations if you ride them...

I was at a festival years ago and a couple was sat next to me with a dog that looked like a German Shepherd cross that was clearly on edge, looking around at the crowd walking by. Then a guy with a kid on his shoulders came near. All you could see at first was the guys shoulders and the kid's head above his. You couldn't see the kid's legs because the guy had his arms wrapped around them. The dog jumped up and started barking its head off at them. Until they got to the point where you could see them side on. As soon as the dog realised what was going on it immediately stopped barking and sat back down. I've often wondered what that dog thought was going on at first.

Human, human, human, HUMANTAUR, human, human, ...
"WHY IS NOBODY REACTING TO THIS ABOMINATION???"

My dog loves the elevator, definitely cant tell the difference since both floors are the same, keeps going to our downstairs neighbors door like its our own before smelling it and realising her mistake.

I mean... I also went into my neibours apartment a couple times by mistake.

Looking at my dog, I think he understands elevators. Maybe not that why it goes, but probably does that it goes. Sometimes I think animals have better spatial awaerness then humans.
- Some do, many don't. Humans are actually really graceful compared to most animals and intuitively do very complex things in space. Tossing a paper ball into a garbage can from ten feet away is an almost uniquely human ability. You ever see a dog try to fit a long stick through a narrow door? Their ability to judge relative sizes and distance is terrible, comparatively.