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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Apollo watches TV

Mike and I have noticed in this past year that periodically Apollo will watch TV. You can see his face looking up at the screen and watch him pay attention. Sometimes it's very brief, just like he wants to check out what we're watching. Sometimes though he'll pay attention for a longer period of time. We've even had the occasion where he didn't like something he saw on TV and started to bark or growl but it never lasts too long. Last night was different though.
Apollo doesn't like our new Wii. We're not sure if it's because we're not playing with him or if it's because we often look like we're throwing something but don't actually let go. Regardless, he gets fussy when we play. Last night I was making up some additional miis for our Wii. I was having fun making one to look like Mike's brother, Scott. Scott has every large, bushy eyebrows that pretty much form a unibrow. As I was trying large scary looking eyebrows on this mii Apollo started growling and barking at the TV. He was completely worked up and very upset. At first I laughed and thought it was the scary looking face but I could not get him to settle down. I finally had to change the screen so the large mii face wasn't there anymore to calm him down. When Mike came home we laughed about Apollo barking at Scott. However, when I showed Mike we picked a different mii and Apollo went berserk over that mii as well. So apparently there's something about the miis that Apollo doesn't like. For the rest of the evening though when we had the TV on Apollo would periodically walk up and check out the TV, almost like he was checking to make sure it was real people and not the miis. This weekend every one's coming over to our house to watch the Superbowl and play the Wii. It should be interesting to see how Apollo responds.

1 comment:

Carol said...

I had to laugh at his reaction to the miis. I had always heard that dogs can't see the tv, but Smokey watches the tv too, sometimes very intently...and God help us if a dog is on screen, he goes up to the tv and sniffs around behind it trying to find the dog. Its rare that we can watch shows like "Dog Whisperer" because of it.