Do you leave the TV on for your pets?

[eyesroll]

I did some door-to-door today (collecting signatures for my SO, who is running for county board here) and a crazy number of people had TV's on visible from the front windows--I'd ring the bell, dogs would bark like crazy, but nobody came to the door. Some of that, sure, is due to not wanting to answer the doorbell for a stranger/in the bathroom/etc....but it seems most of them just left the TV on for their dogs.

I don't have a dog, and the cat and birds don't care one way or the other about the TV...so maybe this is more common than I'd think. But anyway...

[CreekDog]

1. TV? I don't even leave the lights on.

It's not like I'm keeping him from Keith Olbermann or not letting him finish that novel.

:rofl:

[sniffa]

2. yes we do

bi-baby prefers Animal Planet for him.
i put on ESPN.

[Critters2]

3. No. I have four pets. If they can't find a way to amuse themselves,

they're not really trying.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. Sometimes I do. I always leave the clock radio to go off at the

regular time. I do it as much for the pets as I do in an attempt to fool the burglars.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I leave Air America Radio on for the cats.

[flvegan]

6. I leave the local NPR station on for the dogs.

Classical music 20 hours a day, NPR the rest.

[pink-o]

7. I used to leave the radio on for my cat, Miss Patty

...but when my mom died last year, I pretty much gave her to my dad to keep him distracted. She now lives in the palace, with a minion who spoils her far more than I ever did! My dad leaves the heat on sometimes when she's sleeping on the floor grate! I keep telling him she's got her own fur coat, but he's a Jewish father, he can't help himself!

Anyway, she eats it up. Whenever she's left with me, she sulks and gives me "the look" that should strike me dead. But I don't fall for it. I'm only half-Jewish, no feline can guilt me out!!

[DarkTirade]

8. No, but none of my pets have been higher on the evolutionary chain than reptile and amphibian. :)

[kedrys]

9. Not only that, but

they record crap with the DVR that they won't let me watch and takes up all the damn disk space. :rofl:

[Deja Q]

10. No. They are intelligent creatures. Why dumb them down, even the dust mites?

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