does your cat or dog watch hdtv?

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jeffrey <tootal2@nospame.yahoo.com> wrote in newsVYce.28984$Jg7.25859
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> my cat attack the tv when hdnet was playing a show about lions. i
> thought it was funny

I had a cat that used to watch SDTV a bit, but only if there were animals
one it. The only way I even got the dog to look at it was by videotaping
her in one of her barking bouts and then playing it back to her. THAT got
her attention, but more from the sound than the picture. Of course dogs
are far less visual than cats, being mostly guided by smell. If you could
come up with a TV that gave off the odour of lions, I'm sure dogs would go
nuts over it. :-)


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Of our 3 dogs, only one is visually-oriented enough to ever pay any
attention to TV. Likes animal shows, of course, and, to a lesser extent,
basketball. Once, during a nature show about indigenous people in Africa, a
hunter threw a spear that traveled off-screen. The dog ran into the kitchen
to look for the spear.

mack
austin


"jeffrey" <tootal2@nospame.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> my cat attack the tv when hdnet was playing a show about lions. i thought
> it was funny

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In the early 70s, there was a Sylvania TV commercial in which a cat
charged toward a canary on a TV. Even back then, the picture was good
enough to fool a cat. And in the early 90s, Hitachi did a commercial
in which cats stared at a TV with a picture of fish as intently as
another group of cats were staring at an aquarium.

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Mack McKinnon wrote:
> Of our 3 dogs, only one is visually-oriented enough to ever pay any
> attention to TV. Likes animal shows, of course, and, to a lesser extent,
> basketball. Once, during a nature show about indigenous people in Africa, a
> hunter threw a spear that traveled off-screen. The dog ran into the kitchen
> to look for the spear.
>
> mack
> austin
>
>
> "jeffrey" <tootal2@nospame.yahoo.com> wrote in message
> newsVYce.28984$Jg7.25859@fe03.lga...
>
>>my cat attack the tv when hdnet was playing a show about lions. i thought
>>it was funny
>
>
>
My cat loved Michael Jordan in Space Jam. She would stare at the screen
during the whole movie and try to touch Michael when he was on.

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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, jeffrey wrote:
> my cat attack the tv when hdnet was playing a show about lions. i thought it
> was funny

I haven't found many dogs that will watch TV. Some cats do. MANY rabbits do.

I think that dogs don't because they lack color receptors in their eyes. Cats
see all colors and rabbits see blues and greens (they lack red receptors but
see reds as black/white).

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"Dave Oldridge" <doldridg@leavethisoutshaw.ca> wrote in message
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> are far less visual than cats, being mostly guided by smell. If you could
> come up with a TV that gave off the odour of lions, I'm sure dogs would go
> nuts over it. :-)

Yeah, one that smelled like ass.