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Old 04-01-2012, 09:52 PM
 
Location: Lower east side of Toronto
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With the old style tube television the only thin dogs could see were a bunch of dots..some dogs could see the image but they were few. Today with hi def...dogs are becoming very interested in watching TV...They seem to like programs with DOGS...or any four legged creatures they can relate too.

It's like a window to them..They unlike us do not know that there is nothing outside the window..that it is a virtual world they are looking at..they believe it is real and they just love it.

My second daughter has this new young dog...He's a big oalf..a Rottie Bulldog cross..The big dumb lug likes to sneak up and sit on the couch..and put a huge apple size paw over your shoulder...and watch TV...with you..unlike in the old days when they did not notice the thing.

His movie is Lady And The Tramp. He just loves it even though it is an animation...he knows that they are HIS people in the movie and he relates to them...once the movie is over...He insists that you put it back on. This big lug of a mutt...will watch the whole thing without flinching or leaving his spot..

It looks like a new phenomena is taking place in this world of technical modernity. DOGS hooked on TV...Couch mutts...I am sure there is someone out there ready to launch a doggie channel...maybe shows about food...rabbits for instance...or a doggie porno channel..who know?
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Old 04-01-2012, 09:54 PM
 
Location: South Central Texas
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Oh great! Now we have to buy our dogs there own TV...
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Old 04-01-2012, 10:13 PM
 
Location: Lower east side of Toronto
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Oh great! Now we have to buy our dogs there own TV...
YEP!....and it just can't be some old black and white laying in the attic. Rover is going to insist on the best..He might need a nice leather chair with soft paw rests...and some place to keep his snacks...like a thing that goes on the paw rest....It is pretty funny...I wonder if in 500 hundred years...there will be dog movie directors...barking out commands to the leading lady..."give me a little more teeth and less tail wagging......................you got it baby.."???
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Old 04-01-2012, 10:43 PM
 
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I had a cocker spaniel that watched on an older television. I had the Westminster Dog Show on once and she would actually reach out toward the television. I rember her sitting on the edge of the bed just engrossed in this show and I changed the channel and she looked at me like the kiss of death. I had to change it back. Once there was an old episode of Saturday Night Live on and they had 'Goat Boy' on and she literally started growling and then jumped from the couch over the coffee table and into the television.

The Shar-pei I had could see the television as well. There was this show on where these lions were crouched and waiting to spring a gazelle so, my dog was on the floor and got in the crouch position along with them.
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Old 04-01-2012, 10:47 PM
 
Location: Texas
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This is 100% true.
My older dog grew up with regular tv.

There was HDTV when my younger dog came around. SHE watches the tv. In fact, when she was a puppy, she'd see a dog on the tv and start barking and run around to the back of the console (this is when we had a rear-projection) to find them.

Now she knows better. But it was hilarious in the beginning.
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Old 04-02-2012, 06:17 AM
 
Location: Lower east side of Toronto
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My wife will not let her dog watch CNN when she goes out...instead the poor Jack Russell is force to watch some dumb kiddie show..I asked why she changed the channel....? Well it was because she did not want to expose BABY GIRL (yah that's the dogs name...sick hugh?) to violence or anything that might effect her negatively....

.HUMANIZING dogs really bugs me...when they get more respect and attention than me...I get tempted to leave the window open...BABY GIRL likes to bark at anything that passes by that she would like to kill.........the window is up a few floors......does that make me evil? Just a jealous dark thought.....why should this mutt get the good chair anyway?
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Old 04-02-2012, 08:38 PM
 
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Some dogs only watch The National Geographic Channel like Enzo, my absolute favorite dog in the world.


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Old 04-02-2012, 10:00 PM
 
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Well my dogs never seemed to be interested in the TV. I did have one that watched the computer monitor, he even barked at Mister Ed, but once he figured no one was in that box, he tired of it quickly and preferred sleeping.

I would think 8 hours of CNN would be enough to make the poor dog a nervous wreck, just with the repetition of it all.
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Old 04-02-2012, 10:12 PM
 
Location: Lower east side of Toronto
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buried Toby the old Husky....never thought I would respect a dog so much.....A few days before Christmas...I told him that even though he was sick and dying...we would not kill him....well a few days later...someone in the family put him down.....I went to look at dead Toby..stuffed in a big bag...sprinkled some fragrance on him...then he was hauled off and buried...in secret in the middle of the night.

It is heart breaking that he is dead and gone...we don't talk about it...but his face haunts me...intelligent creature...that I bought with inheritance from my mother.....she is gone...now old TOBY...is dead......dry tears flow....but we don't talk about it.
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Old 04-03-2012, 12:37 AM
 
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buried Toby the old Husky....never thought I would respect a dog so much.....A few days before Christmas...I told him that even though he was sick and dying...we would not kill him....well a few days later...someone in the family put him down.....I went to look at dead Toby..stuffed in a big bag...sprinkled some fragrance on him...then he was hauled off and buried...in secret in the middle of the night.

It is heart breaking that he is dead and gone...we don't talk about it...but his face haunts me...intelligent creature...that I bought with inheritance from my mother.....she is gone...now old TOBY...is dead......dry tears flow....but we don't talk about it.
I'm very sorry about your dog. I understand how you feel. I had a beautiful Husky, now passed on, they are great dogs.

I have a Great Pyrenees named Topsy that has cancer and has maybe a week maybe a month or two, I dont know. She's still eating now but you know how it goes. Dry tears, thats an excellent way to put it, thats what I continually feel for my pets I've lost. And I don't like to talk or think about it or ever see photos again, its just too hard. Again, so sorry for your loss.
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