my dog watches tv, but he watches animal planet.....?

Question

she knows wahwn dogs are gonna bark. so she barks . should i stop letting her watch tv?

Answer 1

i always leave the TV on for my dogs when I leave the house..I don't leave it on any program that will be too dramatic, but on the ones that have laugh tracks, or gameshows, etc..

Answer 2

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/nycqQ

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 3

Do your neighbors complain? If the barking doesn't bother them, then let her watch TV,

We had one dog who loved to watch dog shows. He knew his breed and was always when the most attentive when a spaniel won. When the Cumber Spaniel won Westminster he went crazy! He also loved watching ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL, but anytime they did surgery on a dog, he would walk out of the room.

My current household loves the Happy cows come from California commercials and the Clydesdale commercials.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Mine does too but she sits in front of the TV and her little head goes back and forth and she goes crazy I think she enjoys it though, I wouldnt make her stop. Try cartoons mine like that too. I think it is the funny little voices.

Answer 6

I think it's fine as long as she isn't upset.

I have two pugs, one who does not recognize animals on TV and one who does. She even barks at cartoon animals!

Answer 7

Well you watch people on TV doing whatever.....
What's the big shocker here?
Seems like the norm to me.

Answer 8

let her watch tv but cover her eyes when it shows animals mating

Answer 9

hahaha....mine does too......she used to attack the big screen we had.....and if a dog ran across the screen she would be at the other end of the tv waiting for the dog to come out....i love that dog and love that channel...

Answer 10

nah let her watch tv my cat loves watching animal planet.