(Don’t mind the headline. It’s an experiment.)
Some dogs get terribly excited if they see dogs on TV. I wonder–can dogs ever learn to understand that what they see on the screen is not real? After all, they look out of windows all the time; a TV screen must seem like just another window.
If only we could get into their minds!
Our two dogs only pay attention to TV when the dogs bark. Now, that gets them going, but instead of thinking it is coming from TV, they think there are dogs outside, and they bark and want to go out.
How could they learn to know the difference? They’d have to be geniuses to figure that out.