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does your cat/dog watch television?

Mixolydian

Mixolydian

Lifer
lately i find my cat sitting in front of the tv when its on, looking at it as if she is actually watching it. does your cat or dog do this too?

it's so cute.
 
I think there's too much going on the TV for my cat to get interested in it. If I have a mouse pointer moving around, on the other hand, she will freak and attack it like it's a bug.
 
One of my cats will if there is something that catches her attention, she will even jump up and swat at things like birds or bugs when on the screen. My other cat prefers to stare out the window for viewing pleasure.
 
Mixolydian said:
lately i find my cat sitting in front of the tv when its on, looking at it as if she is actually watching it. does your cat or dog do this too?

it's so cute.
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🙂
Two human-cats already replied to your OP....

And we do wonder about species who don't have technology that evil-humans have....


It's more interesting to watch PA Peregrine Falcon cam and to see how they do take care of their babies..and how Peregrine babies do take care of their own babies - something, human species are unable to do....

And humans think(if they're able to think) that they're most advanced animals- species on this planet....
 
Gintaras said:
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Two human-cats already replied to your OP....

And we do wonder about species who don't have technology that evil-humans have....


It's more interesting to watch PA Peregrine Falcon cam and to see how they do take care of their babies..and how Peregrine babies do take care of their own babies - something, human species are unable to do....

And humans think(if they're able to think) that they're most advanced animals- species on this planet....
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what?
 
No, they usually ignore it. Every once in a while a dog barking on TV will get my dog's attention, but as soon as he realizes it's from the TV he goes back to ignoring it.
 
No I wish my dog did.

Some people claim their dogs watch it and follow the scene. But I've also read that dogs' eyes can't pick up TV frequency... which is correct?
 
My cat normally does not seem to look at screens, but sometimes she'll randomly decide to attack something that's moving like my cursor. Lately though, she likes to randomly put her paw on the screen, it's funny because she'll just go right up to it, and slowly put her paw on it and keep it there. Maybe she's trying to warm it up or something lol. LCDs do generate a bit of heat.
 
Watching? No, but one of my two dogs is always listening. Any door knocking, dog, or cat sound from the TV sends him straight to the door begging to get out to look for the cat/dog/person he thinks he heard out there.
 
My cats don't watch. Though I am amazed at how they can distinguish between sound from a speaker versus sounds from other things. The loudest crash happens in a movie and they remain motionless, something falls off a table and they dash into the next room.
 
cubby1223 said:
My cats don't watch. Though I am amazed at how they can distinguish between sound from a speaker versus sounds from other things. The loudest crash happens in a movie and they remain motionless, something falls off a table and they dash into the next room.
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Have you tested them against better speakers? Surround sound?
 
cubby1223 said:
My cats don't watch. Though I am amazed at how they can distinguish between sound from a speaker versus sounds from other things. The loudest crash happens in a movie and they remain motionless, something falls off a table and they dash into the next room.
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They operate quicker than we do, and they can also perceive higher frequencies.
Listen a WAV file that was encoded at an 8kHz sampling rate. You'll know right away that it's not the real deal.
 
Zeze said:
No I wish my dog did.

Some people claim their dogs watch it and follow the scene. But I've also read that dogs' eyes can't pick up TV frequency... which is correct?
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dogs can watch tv on new higher end tvs with a high refresh rate, older tvs just look like flicker to them if I remember correctly.
 
Broheim said:
dogs can watch tv on new higher end tvs with a high refresh rate, older tvs just look like flicker to them if I remember correctly.
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Interesting you should mention that, I'm not sure if it also applies to cats, but I also noticed her watching the TV a lot more since I got a new one. 120 or 240hz refresh, can't remember which one.
 
Jeff7 said:
They operate quicker than we do, and they can also perceive higher frequencies.
Listen a WAV file that was encoded at an 8kHz sampling rate. You'll know right away that it's not the real deal.
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yeah. i bet its the same with the tv too. tv's are designed for human eyes... i dont know how fast cats and dogs eyes refresh but i wouldnt be surprised if tv looks very flickery to them.

and they obviously hear better then us, and even us humans can tell the difference from real and shitty speakers.
 
Nope. My dog has no interest in TV even when there is another dog or any other animal only on the screen.
 
CZroe said:
Have you tested them against better speakers? Surround sound?
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I have decent surround sound and my cat is the same way. She'll ignore loud explosions in the movie. She'll even ignore birds chirping on the surround sound, but if a bird chirps outside, she'll perk up and go check it out.
 
Broheim said:
dogs can watch tv on new higher end tvs with a high refresh rate, older tvs just look like flicker to them if I remember correctly.
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I would guess this as well.
I hate looking at a monitor with a 60Hz refresh rate.
Imagine a screen with a 20Hz or 30Hz refresh rate.

And that refers to the refresh rate on a CRT. The refresh rate on an LCD type of screen isn't quite the same: If a CRT gets refreshed once, and then not again, each pixel's light output would fade in under a millisecond, leaving the entire display blank very quickly. If an LCD would get refreshed once, and then not again, it would simply continue to show the last image it received. So for a dog or cat, an LCD with a slow refresh rate would look like a slideshow, versus the more fluid look of something with a higher rate.

Incidentally, while looking up a more exact number than what I could remember for the phosphor's decay rate, I found something scary, from Image Performance in CRT Displays, by Kenneth Compton: "For commercial office products operating at 100-120cd/cm² (30-35fL), a refresh rate of 64Hz and above will prevent 90% of the population from seeing flicker on a 15" display."
Jesus, what the hell is with my eyes? I can still see flicker at 85Hz on a CRT screen while staring at it, though it's certainly not as terrible as a 60Hz screen. Those were always just painful to look at for anything more than a few minutes. I ran my 21" Trinitron-tube CRT at 120Hz, or as low as 100Hz at higher resolutions.
And at work, I can see whether or not photodimming is kicking in on an LED. We typically PWM things in the neighborhood of 4kHz. Once it gets to at least 6kHz though, the flickering finally goes away. (LEDs do have a much more rapid transition to OFF than a CRT's phosphor pixel. The phosphor's atoms' electrons remain excited for awhile after they've been stimulated. If you cut the power to an LED, the emitter's atoms' electrons will immediately quit throwing out photons.)


So, for a long time, dogs and cats probably just thought we were really weird, staring at a flashing box, which made oddly muddled noises, for an hour or more each day. Recently we've started switching over to panels that show a rapidly-progressing slideshow, and then to the panels that appear to show real, but small, things happening - but the chirping birds shown on the panel still just don't sound right. 🙂
 
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Mixolydian said:
Interesting you should mention that, I'm not sure if it also applies to cats, but I also noticed her watching the TV a lot more since I got a new one. 120 or 240hz refresh, can't remember which one.
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I'm not sure about cats, but dogs need a minimum of 70 images per second in order to see it as a video like us. I'd imagine a cats eyes might even need more.


edit: birds need at least 100 hz.

basically, 1080p and super high refresh rate = your pets will see things in tvs as well as they would in the real world, unless your pet is a falcon with super eyes or some shit like that.
 
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