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This may be the craziest thread ever

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Do any of you have, or have had, a pet that would watch
something with fascination even though he/she had no idea
what was going on? I've had it five times.

My first dog, a Chihuahua named Nick, was crazy about football,
especially the Miami Dolphins when we lived in Florida (the Buccaneers
came along just as we were moving to Texas).

My second dog, another Chihuahua named Mikey, loved horse racing.
It's my tradition to watch the Triple Crown (especially the Kentucky Derby)
and he loved to watch those horses run (he saw two win the Triple Crown,
Seattle Slew and Affirmed). He was also fascinated with "The Bugs Bunny/
Road Runner Show." We would watch it on Saturday mornings; all I had to
say was "Hey, Mike, you want to watch Bugs?" And over to the TV he'd go,
waiting for me to turn it on. I remember one Saturday I had left the room
for some reason, and when I came back he was hypnotized by the Road Runner
and Wile E. Coyote. He also seemed hypnotized by the primetime Bugs Bunny,
Charlie Brown, and Garfield specials on CBS (which I wish they still had--and
I'm speaking for myself now).

I had a female cat, Alli (nicknamed Sissy), who was fascinated with University
of Kentucky basketball; her biological brother, Bart (named for Bart Simpson because
when he was a kitten he stayed in trouble), loved to try to catch footballs
and golf balls and I swear he knew who I was talking about when I'd mention Tiger
Woods. He also liked to watch the crawls on the morning local news shows. My dad
used to watch "The Young And The Restless" while he ate lunch, and they'd climb
up on a table in our sun room to watch it, too. What really stuck out was that, when
I was able to get it on live streaming, I'd watch WHAS Louisville's news; Sissy would
sit on the edge of the bed as if she understood every word, while Bart would sleep
through the whole thing. Yet they knew when it was time for it and would invariably
beat me to the computer.

My current cat, Dustin, will watch about anything I do; he, too, likes golf, although
he hasn't picked up on any of the names (he's named partially for his color and partially
for Dustin Johnson). He's also tried to catch the golfers' drives but has about given up.

I know this is crazy but I'd swear on a stack of Bibles that I'm not making any of this up,
and I don't think I'm alone. Do any of you have any similar stories? (I'm waiting to hear
if somebody's dog or cat watches "Jeopardy!".)
 
I had an orange tabby named Freckles who used to predict when Manny Ramirez would hit homers. He and my other cat would be sitting around while Red Sox games would be on. Freckles would only pick up his head and stare intently if Manny was up, and if he did it meant there would be a home run. If there was no homer coming Freckles felt free to ignore Manny's at-bat.

Not TV, but I had a black lab named Peanut who would try to turn off the radio if he heard the Rolling Stones.
 
I've been trying to find a place to use this story and this may be it. At one time I was watching The Carol Burnett Show and Steve Martin was the guest. He was doing a bit with a dog where he would blow a dog whistle and the dog would bark and react to it. Whenever that happened my dog at home would start barking! I don't know if this was just a reaction to the dog on TV or if he could actually hear the dog whistle being transmitted over the air, but it was hilarious! :D
 
My grandmother's cat would get up on top of the TV while the weather (back when meteorologists and weather people used pointer sticks) was on, and would try to swat at the stick during the segment. The cat wasn't always in the house during the news, but it was amusing the few times it happened, my grandmother especially thought it was hilarious.
 
Aw, the only time I really knew anything about that was in the Peanuts strips where Charlie Brown remarked that the only thing Snoopy liked watching was dog food commercials. (!!!)
 
My cat used to watch pro hockey games, and his head used to move as he'd watch them hitting the puck back and forth.

He never watched anything else.
 
(do I dare post this?)

I had a cat one time who liked to chase the cursor all over the computer screen - you know, there's the pointer and SPLAT there's his paw on top of it.

One day I wasn't at the computer and I saw Curly (yes, we had 3 of them) chasing the pointer without my assistance. He had learned to nudge the mouse with his other paw to make the cursor move.

(All this is true, but the next part is REALLY hard to believe.)
One day I asked Curly why he was doing that, and he told me he was just playing cat-and-mouse. ;D (place groan here)
 
Our cat is fascinated by the VCR whenever I am fast-forwarding or rewinding an old tape. In fact, she sits right in front of the VCR/DVD player, which actually blocks the remote from working! She seems fascinated by the numbers on the screen flashing as the time on the screen increases (or decreases, as the case may be).

Wife has a cat-mouse game on the Ipad, and sometimes, she can't do anything else on the Ipad because the cat always wants to play the cat-mouse game!
 
Not TV related, but I used to have a cat ringtone on my phone that I would play and drive my cats crazy looking to see where it was coming from because they thought another cat was invading their space. My daughter has something similar on her tablet now. ;D

Also from the earlier post, is it actually possible to transmit the sound from a dog whistle over TV or radio? I tried playing the You Tube clip with Steve Martin for my dog and she didn't react to it. I guess the whistle might not carry over computers or tablets.
 
Back in the '90s, our then youthful Black Lab/Boxer would alert with a cold stare and a growl at a VCR recording of him barking in the backyard. These days, our 13-year old ragdoll cat cowers and runs at the sight of the crawler running across the TV screen during the news. And we both run for cover when my wife changes channels to watch American Idol or Dancing with the Stars.
 
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