What does your dog think when you're watching TV? Experts weigh in
Anonymous woman and dog. Photo: Luka/Getty Images/Cultura RF There are many different kinds of love, and our language is woefully inadequate when it comes to describing them all. For instance, I love my dog. I also love watching TV. Before bed every night, I enjoy a soothing ritual in which I placidly empty my brain of the day’s happenings and fill it to the brim with the absurd plot of a questionable European crime drama or an episode of The Sopranos that I have seen four times.
The author’s dog, Fritz. Photo: Gabriella Paiella Before I consulted the experts on the matter, I consulted my colleagues. Kelly Conaboy, human to Peter, said, “My guess would be that it’s similar to whatever a dog thinks when he or she looks out of a window, which is: something is happening in there.” Madeleine Aggeler told me that her dog, Cleo, is “pretty indifferent” to television.
I also asked Millan if there’s a maximum amount of time we should be spending watching TV with our dogs on a daily basis. “I do like an hour a day,” Millan responded. “I can’t put more in my head because I have a ranch. So my Netflix is the trees, the land.” But they do look at us when we’re watching television and interpret that dynamic differently than when we’re, say, interacting with other humans. Horowitz pointed to a study in which scientists tested how long a dog will wait to eat a forbidden treat. “Dogs will steal it faster if you’re so distracted that you’re talking to another person, but not as fast if they’re reading a book or watching television — your attention can be drawn away,” she explained.
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