This is not a message board.
Absolutely unrelated and quite brain fart-ish. You’ve been warned.
Here in France, butchers often have a chicken-roasting oven on the pavement right outside the shop. There are like 6 spikes, with 3 or 4 chickens on each, slowly turning, cooking, dripping fat on each other. The smell is overpowering - in fact that’s the whole idea : get your mouth watering as you’re passing by.
We call these ovens “Dog TV”, for obvious reasons 
But this is a reply to a comment posted on a message board.
Actually, it is.
If “ceci n’est pas une pipe,” then what is it? Looked like a pipe to me.
Okay, my dog does not respond to dogs barking on TV but occasionally responds to a doorbell on TV. Meanwhile, every time a phone rings on TV I try to answer it.
Today I opened a window and hollered at a goose on top of a church roof that he was crazy. But was he crazy or was I?
's a picture of a pipe. Quite different, though it might not seem that way.
Yeah, Magritte was very big on exploring the relationship between representational art and the thing represented. He’s got another one of a canvas in front of a window, with the scene painted on the canvas merging with the scene outside… Except of course, neither the painting in front of the window nor the scenery outside the window are real, both being nothing but part of a painting.
I think it’s the individual animal. I have seen dogs react to TV dogs or themselves in the mirror and other dogs simply don’t care.
I had a friend with a dog that when we showed home movies (the old kind with a projector that was shown on a white sheet we had on the wall), the person in the movie had a hose of water and the dog tried to drink out of the hose.
My cat refused to acknowledge herself in the mirror, but I’ve seen other cats do this. My dog used to have no reaction to a dog barking on a tape or on a TV but could hear another dog half way down the block.
Other animals do, so I think it must be some kind of individual thing where the dog learns the behaviour from someone or something.
I have seen my cats react to sounds from a TV, when they were not looking at the screen – cats meowing in a commercial and newborn lion cubs mewling – by running up to the screen. But then they stopped, sniffed at the screen, then batted at it with a paw, then clearly decided that ‘there’s nothing here’, and went back to whatever they were doing before that.
It seemed clear to me that they recognized that the image on the screen was not a real cat, either from the lack of scent or the failure of it to react to them. And it only took a couple of times before they learned to completely ignore the meowing sounds from the TV.
I think it’s a learned disinterest, rather than an inability to recognise the cat/dog in the tv/mirror. Most kittens and puppies I’ve known react at least once to the TV and the mirror, but few continue to do so when they are older. I have one cat that ignores the mirror at all times, and another that will sit on the bed and watch us in the mirror; we could pick up a toy and she’d watch us move it in the mirror and then spin around to attack it. The cat that ignores the mirror also ignores the TV unless Jack Layton is on (we have no idea why, but she likes him…must be the mustache), and the other cat will occasionally watch the TV and try and catch things, especially hockey players!
My sister’s dog will watch the closet mirror at the bottom of my parent’s steps and wait for my sister to come down. He watches her in it, and as soon as she comes out with the leash or her jacket, or some other signal, he stands up and gets all excited. He clearly knows that the mirror is a magical way to keep track of her without having to climb the steps or crane his neck!
My brother used to have a poster of Charlie Chaplin on his wall and the dog would go crazy barking at it.