Simply pausing for fuel…while transporting a bunch of elephants.

I’ve actually seen something about it, they have trained elephants (coworkers really) that go out and get wild elephants that are bothering towns or are stuck somehow and either rehabilitate them or relocate them safely. The trained elephants basically go: “It’s cool, come with us”. Edit: I believe it was on one of the Jack Hanna nature shows that’s always playing on repeat on Samsung TV. (We leave it on for the dog sometimes).

I tell people I leave the TV on for my dog and they think I’m unstable

My cat loves skydiving shows. Or ziplines. She’ll watch either for hours.

My cat likes the YouTube video of cardinals. No other birds, just the cardinals. I don’t know, cats are weird. Maybe I’m the weird one showing my cat some bird TV?

My dog goes nuts barking at \*any\* animal on TV. Dogs especially, but literally any animal except for people gets him super excited. When they were little, my kids loved a PBS show called “Fetch”. It was a kids’ cartoon starring an animated anthropormorophic dog who walked on 2 legs, spoke English, wore glasses, and sometimes even clothes. The dog didn’t care. He would go nuts whenever it was on. When he heard the theme music playing he’d come running to see it. It’s actually really weird.

Woah, so your dog was capable of discerning the “dog” even though it was anthropomorphic? That’s wild! Animals have astonishing intelligence abilities.

That is what makes it so weird. By every other metric he is a complete moron. He is, however, the sweetest moron dog on the planet.

My pet bird is also a complete moron. He also knows when we’re about to leave the house, how to tell time, and I’m half-convinced he can discern the days of the week.

Dogs have very different eyesight than us, they can’t really parse a tv image properly at all iirc, but they hear the sounds very well.

Uh, they can see TVs just fine. I have no idea where this absurd myth came from. What they might perceive is flickering of the screen, and of course they have dichromatic vision, but what makes you think the light coming from a TV is somehow different to other forms of visible light that dogs can’t perceive it?

Dogs couldn’t see crt televisions which is where the myth came from. The flicker from the tube and low resolution made it impossible for them to see the image clearly. That is no longer the case for modern televisions.

They could see them. Not always very clearly, but again, they could see them. Like I said, flicker and color blindedness played a role *in seeing them differently than us*, but this idea that TV images were somehow “invisible” to dogs is silly. Yes, today’s TVs will be easier for them to see as continous motion as opposed to the flickering still images of older TVs, but to think that the light from CRTs somehow was uniquely different and/or somehow fundamentally different is silly. CRTs were even used by scientists conducting actual science on dog vision and cognition, something tells me they wouldn’t have used such devices if dogs couldn’t perceive them at all.

Maybe your cat is catholic?

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Makes sense. She has birds out the windows here, though. Lot of critters to watch in Vermont.

My cat likes videos of baby rabbits, but only when they’re screaming. She also likes videos of other cats, especially kittens.

😬 bunny screams are distressing!

I too had a cat that yearned for the sky

Mine loves that one dude that does weird Zillow listings.

Do they show the motion from the POV of the skydiver? I ask because my cat loves watching gameplay footage of games in first person, it’s like it hypnotizes him. So I’m wondering if something about the first person POV moving camera is interesting to them

Some. I’ve seen a few where the skydive had a gopro on

You need to specify that it’s Samsung™ TV.

Netflix even had a show for dogs years ago – Puppy Party. Mistakenly put it on for my dog once and now she’s always watching for windshield wipers. My god she gets inconsolably loud about them.

Do you have a dog? That’s key.

used to have a Chihuahua who would turn the tv on and chill on the couch whenever we left the house. Pretty sure she was trying to become Selby, or maybe she already had.

My dog actually *watches* TV. So fuck’em.

One of cats loves watching anything colorful on our OLED TV. Started replaying GOW Ragnarok and she’s just infatuated with all the colors.

Yeah something about that second elephant said “trouble maker”

i love this. the elephants look chill af.

We do the same exact thing with the samsung tv for the dogs! Jack Hannah or the dog whisperer!