There is an actual sport called Dancing with dogs, and the dogs obviously completely ignore the music and cue entirely off their human partner’s body language. I’ve never met any animal who thought people music was even remotely interesting.
While the video of this is making a lot of people happy, the real reason the dog is “dancing” is because of distemper.
My budgie loved the second movement of Beethoven’s Ninth (specifically the timpani) and hated “1999” by Prince.
My dog will curl up next to me listening while I’m playing guitar, and will whine and paw at the guitar when I stop playing. She likes fingerpicking and slow strumming, but doesn’t like solo notes or fast chord strumming. More of a Neil Young girl instead of a Ramones girl.
Yeah right ! The dog isn’t coughing or sneezing or acting sick in any way ! You have distemper !
I think you have been whooshed.
In any case, I suspect it’s actually rabies.
I saw a study some time ago about the fact that parrots really do dance:
As it says, the list of animals that actually can dance is extremely short. Stinky, smelly, hairy dogs are not on it. (Yes, I’m a bird fan. :)) Elephants are on it. Humans. And that’s it.
Doggy is not dancing in that video, cute as it is, he’s just super excited.
Yeah, I’d agree. The dog is happy, but I get no sense that it is from the music. It is just happy and excited to be there doing stuff with its people. It twirls a bit, then stops, then twirls, then stops. You can see it repeatedly checking in with the musicians, maybe simply for approval.