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I was looking at a thread about dogs watching TV and it spurred me to ask this question.

I watch Dog Whisperer a lot and take from it what I want. However thats not my point, Meg never never shows the slightest reaction to the barking of the dogs on the show. I think this must be unusual , or is it?? Oh her hearing is excellent.

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Scooter's only reacted a few times to dogs on t.v. Once, when the dog on DW sounded distressed, and once when we were watching a show about herding in Scotland. Every time the man whistled, Scooter sat up and took notice.

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Seems amazing that a dog will bark at another dog in the garden but somehow knows that TV dogs are not 'real'; I would love to know why they behave like that. I wonder do all breeds react by ignoring TV dogs.

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Lok hasn't done it in awhile, but he used to bark at dogs on TV that barked or howled or noises that sounded like dogs barking or whining. Once shortly after bringing him home, my BF and I were watching a show about wolves and Lok went NUTS barking at the wolves every time they howled! He would run up to the TV and bump it with his nose. To avoid getting nose prints on the TV we started turning it off when he walked up to it--then he started looking behind the TV and in the bedroom behind the wall the TV is against for the wolves! It was pretty funny, but he hasn't done anything like that in a long time.

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ok, mine's the oddball. She barks at everything she hears barking...on tv or on the computer. One of my favorite things is to watch agility videos from this site and others, and she goes nuts when she hears the barking at the shows. Runs around the house barking like crazy. My other dog does not react at all; although he'll bark when she's barking.

 

Oh, and she also reacts to knocking on the door or doorbells on TV. :rolleyes:

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Cheyenne will bark at the tv at barking dogs or just dogs, well, any animal. Skip, if he hears a dog barking on tv, will run out to the back yard, barking at whatever may be invading. He has never associated the tv with the barking. Cheyenne, on the other hand just "knows" they are in that "box" somewhere! Jackson ignores tv altogether as does Holly.

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