One of our dogs actually watches TV

[MissMillie]

Every time the Belsomra commercial comes on, he growls at the little fuzzy sleep/wake creatures.


It's really quite humorous.

[liberal N proud]

1. Our dog watches TV as well

When she is not sleeping, she is always facing the TV when we are in that room. She perks up every time there are animals on TV. Birds really pique her interest.

[shenmue]

2. Squee!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The Belsomra ad is quite well-done, though a tad creepy.

The sleep-cat moves exactly like a real cat, and that's probably what your dog is growling at.

[Worried senior]

5. I kind

of like it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I do, too. It's very clever.

The animators obviously studied very carefully how cats and dogs move. I'd never use the product after listening to the description of the side effects, though.

[fleur-de-lisa]

8. I was part of a focus group comprised of people who suffer from Ideopathic Hypersomnia . . .

One of our tasks was to evaluate that commercial. I thought it was creepy too. I wrote that I thought both the 'sleep' and 'wake' creatures look more like dust bunnies than cats and dogs. The thought of curling up at night with a dust bunny gives me the skeevies!

[Auggie]

4. Our cat checks out the TV now and then ...

she has been ever since I watched a Nature special featuring fish. She was enthralled with that.

[LiberalElite]

12. Once I played a Video Catnip videotape on the TV

it was just squirrels and chipmunks running around. One of my cats just sat politely but up close to the screen. The other went berserk, pushing buttons and jumping on top looking behind the TV. He pressed the channel changer and changed the video channel from 3 to something else and there went that. For months thereafter that cat spent most of his time staring at the usually blank TV screen, waiting for squirrels and chipmunks I guess. He ignored it before I ran that videotape.

[Auggie]

13. +1

[mrmpa]

7. My dog used to run up to the TV........

and bark at Lassie. It was a hoot.

[fleur-de-lisa]

9. I have a six month old kitten who watches tv and smacks anything that moves.

She particularly likes sports of any kind.

My old man cat (17 years old) has never been interested in the tv until recently. Now he sits right next to it to watch the moving stuff, but he doesn't hit the screen like the kitten.

It is absolutely true that pets teach each other bad behavior!

[femmocrat]

10. One of my dogs barks at dogs on TV.

Makes it hard to watch a dog show with her in the room!

[IrishEyes]

11. My cat liked westerns.

He would ignore the TV until I switched to a western then he would watch it. I think he liked the horses.

[3catwoman3]

14. One of ours was absolutely...

...captivated by the gymnastics events of the 2012 Summer Olympics when we first brought her home. Another has been known to watch basketball and she would reach out to try to catch the players as they ran across the screen.

[KT2000]

15. ice skating!!

my kitty loves it.

[malthaussen]

16. So what's his favorite show? n/t

[mentalsolstice]

17. Not only does one of mine watch, she recognizes theme music and ad jingles

She would go crazy whenever she heard the Masterpiece Theater/Downton Abbey theme in expectation of seeing Isis. There is an ad for our natural gas company that features a dog and she is jumping up the minute the jingle starts, does the same thing for PetSmart commercials.

[TrogL]

18. Dogs can see TV now with the faster raster rates

Their eyes are faster than ours so TV used to be just a bunch of lines. Now our TVs have caught up to their tech.

[Duppers]

19. My 11 mo. old Lab loves cartoons!

She'll watch until commercials come on. Of course, we like PBS stations best.

[IDemo]

20. Our boy had his nose pressed to the screen for a PBS wolf special last year

And an hour later, he was howling quite convincingly at a beagle across the street during a walk.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Just now my cat was watching a documentary about the Netherlands on PBS.

Go figure.

[Major Nikon]

22. I had a dog that paid attention to nearly the entirety of "My Dog Skip"

[patricia92243]

23. My 5 pound Toy Poodle is scared when she hears any other animal on

TV. She will run - with tail between legs - and hide.

[Ino]

24. I had a cat who loved Meerkat Manor. (nt)