Does your pet react to the tv or computer?

**shoiji** · 11-17-2010, 05:28 PM

My cat gets all anxious and wants to find the cat or kitten yelling whenever I play a cat video on the computer. It doesn't matter what kind of cat. A cat, baby lion, baby tiger, she will come up to the computer and try to find whatever is crying. Any other animal doesn't bother her. Sometimes the cat likes to watch the arrow roll around on the computer screen.

How about you? Does your pet react to the tv or computer? If so what is it they find so fascinating?

**jas** · 11-17-2010, 06:27 PM

MY dog goes nuts if she hears a dog barking or growling on the tv.

**baxjul** · 11-17-2010, 08:37 PM

My dog freaks out if there is a doorbell noise on the tv! I have to actually open the door and show him there is no one there.

The cats watch the computer.

**Missy** · 11-17-2010, 08:41 PM

yep...see?

**Debbie-cat** · 11-17-2010, 09:01 PM

Our dog will sit and watch the tv quite often. He likes when there is a dog on it and cop cars the best.

Our one cat will sit in front of the computer for hours!

**Contrary Housewife** · 11-17-2010, 11:14 PM

Mine aren't interested in what is on the screen, but if they hear a hurt cat or dog crying on tv they will get freaked out.

My girl kitty reacts to recorded birdsong on the computer.

**Palooka** · 11-18-2010, 12:35 AM

Too cute, Missy.

My cats are boring. They don't pay attention to the puter screen or tv.

**frugalfranny** · 11-18-2010, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by baxjul

My dog freaks out if there is a doorbell noise on the tv!

Mine used to.........think it was a Dominos commercial that had the door bell ring and every time they went nutso. They would bail off my lap knowing that I was going to answer the door.....NOT! They have sort of mellowed out about it now.

**pat in east texas** · 11-18-2010, 08:21 AM

The dog we had in the days of dot-matrix printers would totally lose it whenever we used the printer!

**Squidge** · 11-18-2010, 10:49 AM

Missy, aw!

I cannot recall ever having a cat that paid any attention to the computer or the TV.

They were either all very bright and realised that the images/sounds were not interactive or they were thoroughly unobservant and a bit dim

**Mom2-3** · 11-18-2010, 11:38 AM

We have a dog that whines when babies cry. She will get up and pace and sit by me and whine. She also loves to bark at dogs ANYWHERE (tv, street, house, radio...)! I guess she is just a social doggie

**shoiji** · 11-18-2010, 05:38 PM

Last night I was watching tv and there was a noise that sounded like the smoke detector. The cat was lying there sleeping and quickly got up looking around thinking the smoke alarm had just gone off. It took her awhile before she settled down. But she was ready to evacuate if needed.

**Syn D** · 11-18-2010, 05:42 PM

We have 2 cats, one is to lazy to care what she hears on tv and the other one is on crack and reacts to everything there or not there..

**Jamielane** · 11-18-2010, 07:30 PM

The cats dont care about the tv or computer except one of them freaks out if the kids are playing the wii. He gets on the sewing basket by the tv so he can paw the tv when the cursor is on. The dog reacts sometimes to the tv if there is a loud sound but for the most part she ignores it.

**daylily** · 11-18-2010, 07:51 PM

We had a little dog when I was a teenager who loved to watch "Flipper" on tv. She would sit through the half hour program and watch. One night, Flipper came right up and filled the entire screen with his open mouth. Our dog yelped and ran behind the chair. She never watched the program after that.

The dog we have now doesn't pay any attention to the tv but once I was watching a home video of our dog and SIL's puppy when they first met and were playing. Our dog heard the puppy barking and ran to the tv and watched herself and the puppy playing with the most puzzled expression on her face. She would glance at me like "what is going on?".