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There is an ad on the radio that starts with a doorbell. When that ad comes on, Pensive barks and runs to the front door. The thing that is odd about it is that she has never lived at a place with a doorbell.
My house in Oregon doesn't have a Doorbell. On this house, there is a doorbell button outside, but it is connected to the phone system and if you press the button, the phone in the kitchen rings ( I can pick up the phone and talk to the person at the front door through a speaker)
I have no idea why Pensive thinks that there is someone at the door. But, by golly, am I ever irritated at the company that runs that ad.
Wow, that's so weird that Pensive goes to the door, without ever having experienced a bell being associated with a door. Very weird.
My dog was rescued, and she did the same thing. There was an advertisement with a door bell when we lived in Redding, CA, where I rescued her, and she'd always bark and go to the door. Pretty funny.
She's not much of a barker, but if someone knocks on the door, she barks her head off and won't listen to my commands saying "Enough." I can get her to go into her crate, so she doesn't jump all over the UPS guy - she barks, but she still loves everyone - but I can't get her to stop barking, unless she gets to say hello to whomever comes to the door. Definitely irritating.
There is an ad on the radio that starts with a doorbell. When that ad comes on, Pensive barks and runs to the front door. The thing that is odd about it is that she has never lived at a place with a doorbell.
My house in Oregon doesn't have a Doorbell. On this house, there is a doorbell button outside, but it is connected to the phone system and if you press the button, the phone in the kitchen rings ( I can pick up the phone and talk to the person at the front door through a speaker)
I have no idea why Pensive thinks that there is someone at the door. But, by golly, am I ever irritated at the company that runs that ad.
That’s interesting how she somehow associates the doorbell sound with the door. Wouldn’t you like to know what goes on in their little doggy brains sometimes?
Mine bark at the Lifelock commercials – BEEP “Help, I’ve fallen down and can’t get up.”
Since I can’t predict or replicate this, I can’t train an acceptable behavior. So, I manage it by either redirecting the dogs as soon as I hear the commercial or, if I’m talking, to increase my volume to override the BEEP.
Lifelock has now successfully trained all the humans in my house – whenever I raise my voice volume, all my friends/family look at the TV to see if that damn commercial is on.
I had a dog that used to bark at the ready beeps that they would give alpine skiers at the start of the race. It would make me crazy when I was watching the Olympics. I can assure you, neither he nor I, had ever been anywhere near the start of a downhill race.
Trying to figure this out. I have the radio on, but don't pay attention to it. Maybe when the doorbell in the ad rings, I look up at the radio? Something catches my attention, my head turns, Pensive knows nothing is inside the house, so she runs to the front door?
Years ago there used to be an ad with a phone ring that sounded just like my phone, so I'd focus in and look for my phone. I really hated that ad. At least that one didn't bother my dogs. I know why the advertisers do it, but it brasses me off and it guarantees I will never buy their product.
That's funny, Rowan, about your dog barking at the ready bell at the ski races. When that bell rang, did you focus your attention on the tv?
One of my parents' dogs would get very attentive and bark at the TV during one specific ad for a dog treat. It was a human in a corny dog costume supposedly telling dogs how great the treat was...in a fake human-barking-like-a-dog voice. This dog didn't twitch an ear for anything else. We used to wonder what gibberish that human might actually be saying to listening dogs.
This story probably belongs in the bird forum, but it has to do with answering the phone when it's not ringing.
An elderly lady I knew owned an African grey parrot. A typically brilliant mimic. She was the second owner of this bird, who could imitate several common analog phone rings perfectly. Annoying for the lady, because she'd jump out of her chair, bathroom, garden outside, or her bed to answer the phone only to find it was the parrot. Maybe the bird was bored and wanted to make her do something entertaining like rush across the house. Knowing this bird, that was probably the case. Anyway, her solution was to teach the parrot to shout "HELLO" when it heard the real phone ring. This way she'd hear the ring, wait for the parrot to say HELLO, and know she really needed to pick up a call.
This same bird distinguished between her leaving the house to get her mail out of the box versus leaving the house for errands. If the bird saw her go out the front door it wouldn't say anything specific. The mailbox was on the front porch. If the bird saw her go out the back door into the garage it would say "goodbye" (in her exact voice) and imitate the sound of the burglar alarm keypad. Once the bird had learned the sound of the alarm and started imitating it, she tried to fool the bird a few times. It always seemed to know when she was actually leaving before she did anything as obvious as picking up car keys, setting the alarm, or opening the garage.
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