This is my dog's reaction to an animal chase scene on tv :)

[luvMIdog]

My dog watches television. She becomes very interested and actively involved when she sees animals on the screen. This is her reaction to seeing an animal chase scene on a commercial

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

1. My Havanese does the same thing...

We had to stop watching Americas funniest videos cuz of the racket. He hears music to a commercial he knows that there is animals featured and goes nuts. One time there was an ad for something that had squirrels in it running across the screen, he chased them around to the back of the tv.
I have a friend whose dog does the same. We think it's because of HD tvs there are no scan lines like in the old cathode ray tvs. Those lines probably made the amimals hard to see for the dogs.

Just a theory, who knows?

[luvMIdog]

2. you are so right about them knowing the music

My dog knows exactly what music goes to which commercial that has animals in it. She has memorized many many musical scores. That made me think that learning music seems to be easier for her than recognizing words & that maybe training her with music or sounds would be easier than using words.

I wanted to add she usually does not react to people on tv, but there was a murder re-enactment scene she saw where the man slapped a woman around and began stabbing her. It really upset my little dog. She was growling and showing her teeth at the tv and barking. She was very upset by it. I think she thought she was witnessing a bad man hurt a woman. I felt bad when I saw how much it upset her.

[Tanuki]

5. You might like this piece on dogs and music by Dr. Stanley Coren

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/blog/canine-corner/201204/do-dogs-have-musical-sense%3famp

[NJCher]

6. that's really funny

That he chased the squirrels around the back of the TV!

Hey, logical, yes?


Cher

[GreenEyedLefty]

9. Your theory seems spot on to me.

[samnsara]

4. my 45 pound golden pup leaps onto my lap...

..every morning when I'm in the recliner. I usually have one hand free to type in 'funny dog videos' on the laptop. this distracts her enough so I can peel her teeth off me.

[Demsrule86]

7. your dog is so cute..and the video is hillarious. I have three poms...two rescued and a jack russel

the small one. which my son passed on because his girlfriend is allergic to her.

[GreenEyedLefty]

8. My dog goes crazy when she sees dogs on TV, too.

In fact, she went crazy watching your dog watching dogs on TV!

[BobTheSubgenius]

10. And....

...my dog went nuts watching your dog go nuts. Cairn Terrier. Waddya gonna do?

[Jane Austin]

11. My dogs love that ad!

And of course I play it for them over and over again.