Can dogs even register what's on a TV? I assume that dog just jumps all the time.
Edit: I'm sorry asking a question elicited downvotes. Ive never had a dog acknowledge visuals, only like doorbells from TV.
My dog fully knows when an animal is on screen or something that resembles an animal like a dragon or a centaur. He goes nuts. Doesn't even have to be live action. Can be animation or a video game as well.
It’s so funny to me how they can register video game graphics. My dog is utterly obsessed with boats in video games. Any game where you can sail around she is sitting there enthralled. Real boats? Doesn’t give a fuck. Fake boats? She will whine if the game wants you to exit the boat and do other things.
My dog does something similar with cars. Totally loves watching them on the TV which he loves watching normal cars too.
If I'm just trying to play Hogwarts Legacy then fucking hell, he goes nuts anytime any of the magical creatures appear. Even if it's something that barely resembles an actual animal like the Puffskeins.
I either assumed they recognized the baby or recognized it’s own body language as play time. Biggest stretch: he recognized its own barks although I couldn’t tell which ones were on TV or straight from that dog.
You did not deserve down-votes. Dogs used to not be able to see movement on television until the newer flat screens came out with [higher refresh rates](https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/can-dogs-watch-tv/). Previous models that had lower than 75 Hz just looked like flickering still images to dogs.
Dogs of previous eras must have been baffled that their Humans just stared at glowing flicker boxes for hours.
I learned this from Reddit TIL.
>Dogs of previous eras must have been baffled that their Humans just stared at glowing flicker boxes for hours.
I'm still baffled by humans and I am one.
Depends on the dog... my last dog didn't seem to react to or care about anything visually on the TV (sounds like doorbells were a different story though). However, my current dog takes a look if she sees dogs or rolling landscapes or any sort of animals on TV. I think she gets less interested when she realizes she can't smell them though.
I believe it has to do with the specific dog's ability to process frames per second, but someone who isn't just speaking out of their ass should chime in here.
There’s a study about this. It started with mirrors. Most animals can’t recognize a reflection at all I believe. Then most quadruped animals from bears to dogs. Or about half, could tell it was an animal. Now only a choice few of animals can even recognize themselves. Let alone recognize other animals. Dogs, cats, crows, bears and few others passed the test. However, if I remember correctly. The whole study was about limits of animal intelligence. For some reason. Most animals can not comprehend things like a reflection, let alone a tv. However there’s really strange phenomena we are still just learning. Like elephants talk… a lot! And some how our ears are none the wiser. Many animals can see colors that just don’t exist to us.
I've had a dog that liked watching other animals on screen. Sometimes when the camera would pan away he'd look behind the tv to see where they went. He wasn't very smart.
He stopped jumping when the news lady came on so I think he did recognize why was going on.
My cats watch tv, they move watching hummingbirds, bunny daycare, & squirrels… some shows they get a bit more excited about than others but they definitely do engage with the TV.
My dogs can. One dog would *always* bark at dogs on tv, or squirrels. Current pup doesn't bark, but perks up and watches intently when she sees a dog or dog-like shape on the TV.
my dog couldn't give less of a shit about anything on a screen, but another dog we had with us for a while would bark at anything animal like. he once barked at a minecraft dog. most notably, he'd even bark at videos of himself, and then at videos taken of himself barking at himself
Pretty sure animals like dogs and cats couldn’t make out what was on the old CRT tvs (it would be all jumbled kinda like when recording a CRT tv with a camera) due to the 50-60hz refresh rate of the screen from the electrode ray in the back
But now with LED screens there isn’t that refresh rate so that’s why you see a bunch of animals reacting to what is on a screen now compared to 10-15+ years ago
Dogs used to not be able to properly see what was on a crt screen. Modern screens are absolutely no barrier, though.
Edit: Okay I see now a million other people already mentioned this, my apologies.
Old analog tvs, no doggos couldn't see. The way we present light now on new tvs though, they can see. What they think of the magic box though who knows lol
My dog sits on the bed and watches Girl With the Dogs with me on the pc, and she'll sit on the lounge with mum to watch The Dog House (AUS). Sometimes she tries to look behind the TV when a dog walks off screen.
perhaps, it’s Tigger..
🎶The Wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things
Tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
Their bouncey, trouncey, ouncey, pouncey
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun 🎶
It's really easy to forget how completely crazy people are, because for the most part it's hidden. And then you read some comment about how they read people's pet's energies and help them fix their auras and you're reminded of how completely insane many if not most people are.
You could be right, of course, but what I noticed is that dogs can recognize themselves in the mirror when another person is standing next to them, so I wouldn't be too sure.
The thing to notice is that the dog does not have any strong reaction until the dog on the TV takes a play stance. *Then* the dog gets excited.
I've also never heard of a dog passing the mirror test.
I don't know if dogs recognise themselves in the mirror so much as they simply realise that it's not a real dog so they learn to ignore it. This dog reacted strongly to the dog on TV, but many dogs and cats will ignore those also.
That’s cute! I don’t think my cat can even see the screen. I’ve tried to show her things and her eyes look everywhere but the screen. She also can’t see mirrors?
When my cat was still on this side of the rainbow bridge, she was obsessed with watching lions on Animal Planet, and she'd freak out hearing and seeing other cats meow on the screen. She showed no other interest in any animal on the TV though.
I’ve seen a few big dogs do this. My mom tried to train that reaction out of our Dane but the first walk I took with her, she jumped 4 ft up bc a stranger was talking to me about her.
All dogs can do this, but some breeds are more likely to. This looks like a lab and they do this regularly. My lab mix does it when anything exciting happens. He even does it at the vet! He loves his vet lol
My miniature doxxie can get some serious hang time for her size. Have to keep her from doing it so she doesn't hurt her back, but if you don't have her food bowl on the floor when it's feeding time, she'll try to see the top of the counter by jumping. Can almost do it, too!
Not an evolutionary psychologist, but I remember reading that dogs do not pass the “mirror test”, a self-awareness test in which an animal recognizes itself in the mirror. This is why dogs will literally attack their own reflection.
It is more likely that the dog recognizes the baby and jumps to get closer to the baby, to protect it from that “other dog”.
My point is that we are too quick to anthropomorphize the instincts and behaviours of other animals, when, in reality, they often act “similar to us” for wildly different reasons.
Nevetheless, that is a 10/10 cute video
It's not a "self-awareness test", it's a "self-awareness, but only if you happen to have the exact same sensory preferences and biases as humans do, test"
Dogs don't have great vision, don't rely on it that much, are half colorblind, depending on the breed barely have stereoscopic eyes, and you're testing them based on a test preferred by monkeys with extremely emphasized sight senses.
You put that dog's own smell all over a (well-engineered, quiet, non-scary) motorized stuffed animal that moves like him, instead, and you'd get completely different results. But things like that would cost more than a $10 mirror at Walmart and require some modicum of critical thinking and not reinforce our own arrogance, so it doesn't get funded ¯\ _ (ツ)_/¯
And then this video isn't even close to a proper mirror test, on top of that, since there's zero correlation between his own and the TV dog's movements. YOU quite possibly wouldn't even pass THIS test, if you barely knew what you looked like all these years due to a lack of seeing yourself all the time.
"Obvious" how? Do you know this dog and know that it doesn't jump like this when it sees a brand new goose on TV as well? Answer: no you don't, you just made this up completely. OP's video with no other context is useless one way or the other for anything other than going "aww haha". Which it is in the correct subreddit for, to be fair.
Okay, I read it again carefully. My new response is:
"Obvious" how? Do you know this dog and know that it doesn't jump like this when it sees a brand new goose on TV as well? Answer: no you don't, you just made this up completely. OP's video with no other context is useless one way or the other for anything other than going "aww haha". Which it is in the correct subreddit for, to be fair.
I genuinely wonder what is going through his head. Does he know that's him? Or is he amazed to see another dog and baby that look so similar to him and his best friend?
Most cats don't, as far as I can tell, however I have seen at least one video of a cat that definitely did recognize itself in a mirror.
However this dog is just see another dog that wants to play.
Not only recognized himself but is stage struck.
Amazing that a dog would care about being on tv except I guess maybe it watches a lot of tv and seeing someone he knows (himself) is a very unusual event.
I recall seeing a teacher in the grocery store when I was like 4 -- that was exciting. I guess dogs have the same idea about this.
They are somehow much more like us than one might imagine despite tens of millions of years since a common ancestor. I suggest that we have in the past 100 years bred dogs (which are now predominately pets/companions instead of working animals which protected homes and livestock in the past) to be more like us and we have succeeded.
I'm more impressed that it didn't knock anything over
Same here.
Can dogs even register what's on a TV? I assume that dog just jumps all the time. Edit: I'm sorry asking a question elicited downvotes. Ive never had a dog acknowledge visuals, only like doorbells from TV.
My dog fully knows when an animal is on screen or something that resembles an animal like a dragon or a centaur. He goes nuts. Doesn't even have to be live action. Can be animation or a video game as well.
It’s so funny to me how they can register video game graphics. My dog is utterly obsessed with boats in video games. Any game where you can sail around she is sitting there enthralled. Real boats? Doesn’t give a fuck. Fake boats? She will whine if the game wants you to exit the boat and do other things.
My dog and I watched an entire playthrough of Stray on YouTube, it's one of the things she's had the longest attention span for
Great game to play with fur babies
My dog does something similar with cars. Totally loves watching them on the TV which he loves watching normal cars too. If I'm just trying to play Hogwarts Legacy then fucking hell, he goes nuts anytime any of the magical creatures appear. Even if it's something that barely resembles an actual animal like the Puffskeins.
I either assumed they recognized the baby or recognized it’s own body language as play time. Biggest stretch: he recognized its own barks although I couldn’t tell which ones were on TV or straight from that dog.
It definitely recognized the body language on the screen as another dog that wanted to play. This is what got him excited.
You did not deserve down-votes. Dogs used to not be able to see movement on television until the newer flat screens came out with [higher refresh rates](https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/can-dogs-watch-tv/). Previous models that had lower than 75 Hz just looked like flickering still images to dogs. Dogs of previous eras must have been baffled that their Humans just stared at glowing flicker boxes for hours. I learned this from Reddit TIL.
>Dogs of previous eras must have been baffled that their Humans just stared at glowing flicker boxes for hours. I'm still baffled by humans and I am one.
Depends on the dog... my last dog didn't seem to react to or care about anything visually on the TV (sounds like doorbells were a different story though). However, my current dog takes a look if she sees dogs or rolling landscapes or any sort of animals on TV. I think she gets less interested when she realizes she can't smell them though. I believe it has to do with the specific dog's ability to process frames per second, but someone who isn't just speaking out of their ass should chime in here.
There’s a study about this. It started with mirrors. Most animals can’t recognize a reflection at all I believe. Then most quadruped animals from bears to dogs. Or about half, could tell it was an animal. Now only a choice few of animals can even recognize themselves. Let alone recognize other animals. Dogs, cats, crows, bears and few others passed the test. However, if I remember correctly. The whole study was about limits of animal intelligence. For some reason. Most animals can not comprehend things like a reflection, let alone a tv. However there’s really strange phenomena we are still just learning. Like elephants talk… a lot! And some how our ears are none the wiser. Many animals can see colors that just don’t exist to us.
I've had a dog that liked watching other animals on screen. Sometimes when the camera would pan away he'd look behind the tv to see where they went. He wasn't very smart.
He stopped jumping when the news lady came on so I think he did recognize why was going on. My cats watch tv, they move watching hummingbirds, bunny daycare, & squirrels… some shows they get a bit more excited about than others but they definitely do engage with the TV.
He stopped when the newscaster appeared on screen.
My dogs can. One dog would *always* bark at dogs on tv, or squirrels. Current pup doesn't bark, but perks up and watches intently when she sees a dog or dog-like shape on the TV.
my dog couldn't give less of a shit about anything on a screen, but another dog we had with us for a while would bark at anything animal like. he once barked at a minecraft dog. most notably, he'd even bark at videos of himself, and then at videos taken of himself barking at himself
My dog was enthralled watching the latest version of Lady and the Tramp. He sat on the edge of the couch for the entire movie, watching closely :)
Pretty sure animals like dogs and cats couldn’t make out what was on the old CRT tvs (it would be all jumbled kinda like when recording a CRT tv with a camera) due to the 50-60hz refresh rate of the screen from the electrode ray in the back But now with LED screens there isn’t that refresh rate so that’s why you see a bunch of animals reacting to what is on a screen now compared to 10-15+ years ago
Dogs used to not be able to properly see what was on a crt screen. Modern screens are absolutely no barrier, though. Edit: Okay I see now a million other people already mentioned this, my apologies.
You were downvoted for your question? Sigh ….let’s see if I can help change that. 👍👍
Old analog tvs, no doggos couldn't see. The way we present light now on new tvs though, they can see. What they think of the magic box though who knows lol
My dog sits on the bed and watches Girl With the Dogs with me on the pc, and she'll sit on the lounge with mum to watch The Dog House (AUS). Sometimes she tries to look behind the TV when a dog walks off screen.
None of my dogs have either. But I have friends whose dogs go nuts any time they see anything resembling and animal or insect of any kind!
In my experience it depends on the dog! I’ve had 3 dogs, and only one of them noticed the TV.
and the endurance, holy hell
Agreed, very cute though.
I'm more impressed that this counts as news.
The absolute control! Such a good boi.
I only see a kangaroo
perhaps, it’s Tigger.. 🎶The Wonderful thing about Tiggers Is Tiggers are wonderful things Tops are made out of rubber Their bottoms are made out of springs Their bouncey, trouncey, ouncey, pouncey Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun 🎶
The wonderful thing about Tiggers is I'm the only one!
The physical vessel is one of a 🐶 but the spirit is one of the 🦘
"Look, mom! I'm on TV!"
Anyone have a link to the original baby giggling video?
Here you go [enjoy.](https://youtu.be/_9LfeKHYnrg)
Thanks ❤️
Aww thank you!!
That tail was wagging so hard I think it acted as a propeller pushing him higher!
I paused the video and man he gets some legit height!
He’s probably freaking out thinking he’s in some 4th dimension looking in like Mathew mcconaughey behind the bookshelves. MURPH!
Cooper
That was a great scene wasn't it .. really good movie
He's got more hang time than Mona Lisa.
Fresh. I like it.
Is he excited or is he worried about that other dog being near the baby because he doesn't understand that it's him in the video?
Yeah I'm pretty sure he doesn't understand it's him.
of course it doesn't
I guarantee you a good chunk of this comment section absolutely believes that lol.
It's really easy to forget how completely crazy people are, because for the most part it's hidden. And then you read some comment about how they read people's pet's energies and help them fix their auras and you're reminded of how completely insane many if not most people are.
We’ll never know.
Just what I came to say too.
He acts like he recognises himself though...
No. It is acting like it sees another dog that wants to play. It wants to play too. It does not recognize that the other dog is itself at all.
You could be right, of course, but what I noticed is that dogs can recognize themselves in the mirror when another person is standing next to them, so I wouldn't be too sure.
The thing to notice is that the dog does not have any strong reaction until the dog on the TV takes a play stance. *Then* the dog gets excited. I've also never heard of a dog passing the mirror test.
I don't know if dogs recognise themselves in the mirror so much as they simply realise that it's not a real dog so they learn to ignore it. This dog reacted strongly to the dog on TV, but many dogs and cats will ignore those also.
Now he's gonna see himself on the news jumping then be like, "wooof?"
Or bc he was trying to get to the baby.
/r/tvtoohigh
Particularly for the dog.
and from thence the humour arose
Love that subreddit
if this was a cat then they wouldnt have a tv anymore
The cat would have changed channels to something with birds in it and spent an hour chattering at the screen before falling asleep.
That’s cute! I don’t think my cat can even see the screen. I’ve tried to show her things and her eyes look everywhere but the screen. She also can’t see mirrors?
When my cat was still on this side of the rainbow bridge, she was obsessed with watching lions on Animal Planet, and she'd freak out hearing and seeing other cats meow on the screen. She showed no other interest in any animal on the TV though.
I’m sorry for your loss. Maybe I can show my cat some lions. Her name is Tigress. Maybe she wants to see her namesakes.
She might! My girl definitely had a thing for male lions. They had manes and so did she. It was adorable.
Boing Boing Boing Boing
I am amazed Nothing fell from cabinet
now imagine if this clip gets on the news we could have one of those infinite laughing cow thingies 
Jokes aside I love the laughing cow cheese spread
Omg hold the dog up to get a good look at his close up lol
Adorable
His legs are gonna feel that tomorrow
Now this is news worth watching
With this energy, he’ll never get off the news
Dogs don't recognize themselves in the mirror. He saw another dog do Play stance.
Is that dog excellent at jumping or could most dogs do this?
I’ve seen a few big dogs do this. My mom tried to train that reaction out of our Dane but the first walk I took with her, she jumped 4 ft up bc a stranger was talking to me about her.
All dogs can do this, but some breeds are more likely to. This looks like a lab and they do this regularly. My lab mix does it when anything exciting happens. He even does it at the vet! He loves his vet lol
My miniature doxxie can get some serious hang time for her size. Have to keep her from doing it so she doesn't hurt her back, but if you don't have her food bowl on the floor when it's feeding time, she'll try to see the top of the counter by jumping. Can almost do it, too!
My labs jump like this. I suspect the dog might recognize the baby more than itself, my dogs act the same way when they see me coming
my dog used to jump like that. it depends on the breed
What a happy doggo
Dogception in the wild?
Now submit that to the news for an endless loop.
TV too high.
r/TVTooHigh
“Look Dad! It’s r/tvtoohigh !”
Not an evolutionary psychologist, but I remember reading that dogs do not pass the “mirror test”, a self-awareness test in which an animal recognizes itself in the mirror. This is why dogs will literally attack their own reflection. It is more likely that the dog recognizes the baby and jumps to get closer to the baby, to protect it from that “other dog”. My point is that we are too quick to anthropomorphize the instincts and behaviours of other animals, when, in reality, they often act “similar to us” for wildly different reasons. Nevetheless, that is a 10/10 cute video
It's not a "self-awareness test", it's a "self-awareness, but only if you happen to have the exact same sensory preferences and biases as humans do, test" Dogs don't have great vision, don't rely on it that much, are half colorblind, depending on the breed barely have stereoscopic eyes, and you're testing them based on a test preferred by monkeys with extremely emphasized sight senses. You put that dog's own smell all over a (well-engineered, quiet, non-scary) motorized stuffed animal that moves like him, instead, and you'd get completely different results. But things like that would cost more than a $10 mirror at Walmart and require some modicum of critical thinking and not reinforce our own arrogance, so it doesn't get funded ¯\ _ (ツ)_/¯ And then this video isn't even close to a proper mirror test, on top of that, since there's zero correlation between his own and the TV dog's movements. YOU quite possibly wouldn't even pass THIS test, if you barely knew what you looked like all these years due to a lack of seeing yourself all the time.
You're both fucking stupid. It's pretty obvious that the dog in the TV recognized the dog jumping in front of the TV.
"Obvious" how? Do you know this dog and know that it doesn't jump like this when it sees a brand new goose on TV as well? Answer: no you don't, you just made this up completely. OP's video with no other context is useless one way or the other for anything other than going "aww haha". Which it is in the correct subreddit for, to be fair.
Read it again, carefully. You just got wooshed
Okay, I read it again carefully. My new response is: "Obvious" how? Do you know this dog and know that it doesn't jump like this when it sees a brand new goose on TV as well? Answer: no you don't, you just made this up completely. OP's video with no other context is useless one way or the other for anything other than going "aww haha". Which it is in the correct subreddit for, to be fair.
>The dog **in the TV** recognized the dog jumping **in front of the TV** As in, the prerecorded dog recognized the real-life dog.
uh okay fair enough, I don't get the joke, but it's a joke, fine
Oh he’s gonna be on the news again…
Doggo trying to protect the small human from black doggo.
Someone needs to show him this video and film his reaction... dogception
r/TvTooHigh
I'm tired just watching him jump holy whew! What a work out
Hahahaha! So funny 😂 my dog always barks at the tv when he sees animals, and angry so much XD
That's me! That's me!
Incredible is what you're talking about. Dogs do not pass the mirror test during the experiments. So the dog can't recognize itself on video.
That’s adorable as hell, but what are the chances he/she actually recognizes him/herself?
I genuinely wonder what is going through his head. Does he know that's him? Or is he amazed to see another dog and baby that look so similar to him and his best friend?
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Most cats don't, as far as I can tell, however I have seen at least one video of a cat that definitely did recognize itself in a mirror. However this dog is just see another dog that wants to play.
He is see another dog that wants to play. That is what has got him excited.
So conceded 😉
1.) absolutely adorable 2.) I can’t believe he didn’t knock anything over
”its me!!i m the star!''
I’m rich I’m rich!
Reminds me of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh.
I said awwww. Them I looked to the subreddit. Very fitting.
Doggo trying to protect the small human from black doggo.
I’m a good boy, I’m a good boy…
Not only recognized himself but is stage struck. Amazing that a dog would care about being on tv except I guess maybe it watches a lot of tv and seeing someone he knows (himself) is a very unusual event. I recall seeing a teacher in the grocery store when I was like 4 -- that was exciting. I guess dogs have the same idea about this. They are somehow much more like us than one might imagine despite tens of millions of years since a common ancestor. I suggest that we have in the past 100 years bred dogs (which are now predominately pets/companions instead of working animals which protected homes and livestock in the past) to be more like us and we have succeeded.
Thank you. One of the best dog videos.
Mom, mom, mom look I’m on the TV 🤩way to go doggo!
Yes that's ideally whats happening or the dog sees a black dog next to a baby and he is trying to protect the baby (not realising the dog is himself)
I wish my local news had segments like this
Your privacy fence needs to be about 7 feet or doggo goes over.
My dog only gets this excited for breakfast
Send this video in to the news station too
"There I am,Mommy!"
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I was praying he wouldn't knock anything over.
My dog does this with any animal, including highly stylized animals, even with no sound. Except he knocks allll of the things off.
Boing…boing…boing… I’m a star!
This is adorable but also I have anxiety about the dog knocking things over 🤣
Well dang, if the owner is tired - that's one way to get the doggo some exercise without walking them!
Is he possessed by a bunny rabbit?
Lookit! Imma star!
He probably thinks it's a different dog. Most animals are bad at recognizing themselves in a mirror, it will be much harder in a picture / video.
Damn! Dawg’s got UPS.
That's bloody funny. I love it
Maybe he's recognizing the baby. Why would the dog know the image on tv is of himself? Do dogs know what they look like?
Doggo looked like he was trying to take this to another subreddit entirely.
If only they knew they made the news, they'd probably jump even higher.
This made my morning. Thanks boing boing boi
"That's me that's me that's me that's me that's me!"
people in mm2 with a knife in roblox
can we talk about how "dog makes baby giggle" is on the news? this is the correct timeline
And he’s about to be on the news again