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Post by autumn on May 25, 2020 22:29:55 GMT
He's convinced it's real! He chirps and barks at the screen, and tries to "find" where the dog will show up.
Aww, I love him.
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Post by autumn on May 25, 2020 23:04:37 GMT
I once had a peck-a-poo that loved watching basketball and would bark at horses on TV. He barks at the real horses when we drive by them. And the sheep (I think he thinks they're furry dogs!)
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 25, 2020 23:10:33 GMT
None of my cats paid any attention to anything on the TV except got this ONE time when some mewing kittens got a perplexed look. 
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Post by enigma72 on May 26, 2020 17:21:04 GMT
None of my cats paid any attention to anything on the TV except got this ONE time when some mewing kittens got a perplexed look.
I like this one (ot or not ) I had a cat that looked like yours. Mine was named Matilda |
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Post by amyghost on May 26, 2020 17:41:20 GMT
Some years back, I was watching a nature program on tv. My cat, who was paying absolutely no attention, suddenly had his eyes glued to the screen when some footage of lions appeared! As soon as that scene was over, he walked off. I thought that was really funny, and wish it had been during the time when I could have taken a video of it, because I thought that was just too cute.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 26, 2020 17:46:20 GMT
Some years back, I was watching a nature program on tv. My cat, who was paying absolutely no attention, suddenly had his eyes glued to the screen when some footage of lions appeared! As soon as that scene was over, he walked off. ... That's what happened with my cat and the TV kittens and just that one time. Another cat freaked out when she caught sight of her reflection in a mirror that had been set against the wall at her level. Went total Halloween Cat with arched back, raised hair , huge tail. Poor Maggie !
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Post by amyghost on May 26, 2020 17:52:49 GMT
Some years back, I was watching a nature program on tv. My cat, who was paying absolutely no attention, suddenly had his eyes glued to the screen when some footage of lions appeared! As soon as that scene was over, he walked off. ... That's what happened with my cat and the TV kittens and just that one time. Another cat freaked out when she caught sight of her reflection in a mirror that had been set against the wall at her level. Went total Halloween Cat with arched back, raised hair , huge tail. Poor Maggie ! I've heard it said that one 'proof' of animals having no sense of self-awareness is that they pay no attention to their own reflection in a mirror. That's not true, and it's also not true that the only reason they do so--when they do--is that they think it's another animal. I've seen both cats and dogs react to their reflection in ways that seem to be pretty clear that it occurs to them that the animal they're seeing isn't a different animal, but themselves.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 26, 2020 17:58:59 GMT
amyghost Those two times are the only personal experience I have had with cats and TVs/ mirrors but there are plenty of videos that show that some react as if they know it's themselves and some react to the other . Individual variations abound and all pretty interesting to watch !
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2020 9:21:28 GMT
I can't watch a nature show when one of my dogs is in the room. She watches the screen and starts barking if she see's certain animals.
She's even went behind the TV and poked her head around to see if she could find it. It's hysterical.
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Post by autumn on May 27, 2020 21:30:51 GMT
I can't watch a nature show when one of my dogs is in the room. She watches the screen and starts barking if she see's certain animals. She's even went behind the TV and poked her head around to see if she could find it. It's hysterical. My dog does the same thing. He'll be laying on the floor, I'm convinced he's asleep, and some commercial or something comes on with animals on it and he jumps right up and he'll go so far as to look behind the television to see if that cat on the screen eluded him and snuck back over there. lol
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