Georges will watch this all day.
January 30, 2015 4:07 PM   Subscribe

 
I wish I got that excited about... anything.
posted by torisaur at 4:14 PM on January 30, 2015 [8 favorites]


I love how the other dog just doesn't care.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 4:18 PM on January 30, 2015 [7 favorites]


How can he comprehend what's going on in between all the shifts in point of view, pauses for interviews and split screens? And it's not like the tennis ball is visible most of the time. My friend's dog can't even recognize her owner's face when they skype.
posted by wrabbit at 4:18 PM on January 30, 2015


When you think about it, tennis is running and catching the ball and bringing it back really really quickly
posted by halifix at 4:19 PM on January 30, 2015 [9 favorites]


Not only does the other dog not care, but he seems vaguely embarrassed for his excited companion
posted by torisaur at 4:22 PM on January 30, 2015 [14 favorites]


My controversial opinion in this thread will be that Georges is a very good dog and that Annie the apathy dog is also a very good dog and that it is good to upload videos of your good dogs.
posted by EatTheWeek at 4:22 PM on January 30, 2015 [53 favorites]


I think "comprehend what's going on" is a little strong. He knows that when they switch to full court view, he's going to see the ball move and that when they get the waist up of a person they're going to serve (i.e. throw the ball). I don't think he knows who's winning, or even that the different views are the same people.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 4:23 PM on January 30, 2015


I was starting to think, maybe he's not having fun, maybe he's just getting increasingly agitiated and Joe Youtube should take him outside and throw him his own tennis ball, but then he gets his ball and takes it to watch. So I guess he's good.
posted by thelonius at 4:24 PM on January 30, 2015 [7 favorites]


Dogs are weirdos. We like to watch Top Chef, and at the end of the episode, after all the closing credits, there's a two-second animation of the production company's purple sprite. Our pug Zac will leap up and off the couch, and start running around like crazy. He's learned to associate it with one of us taking him for walkies, I think, which is great excitement for most dogs.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 4:24 PM on January 30, 2015 [3 favorites]


That pan to the other dog near the beginning of the video was masterful.
posted by kmz at 4:33 PM on January 30, 2015 [21 favorites]


My dog does something similar when there are animals on the tube. The strange thing is that he does it even when they're animated animals. The only explanation I have is that he must actually recognize them as animals, but who knows?
posted by Benny Andajetz at 4:42 PM on January 30, 2015


My very good dog Shady being adorably non chalant on the subway today.
posted by olya at 4:43 PM on January 30, 2015 [6 favorites]


Tennis balls are a hell of a drug
posted by fshgrl at 5:00 PM on January 30, 2015 [7 favorites]


Annie the apathy dog

Now I'm envisioning a corps of Apathy Dogs, specially trained to ignore sick people in hospices.
posted by Iridic at 5:17 PM on January 30, 2015 [16 favorites]


He's learned to associate it with one of us taking him for walkies, I think, which is great excitement for most dogs.

Dogs are very good at remembering the signs of imminent walkies, aren't they? Mine goes bonkers every time I put sneakers on.
posted by Quilford at 5:23 PM on January 30, 2015


One fun thing of recently adopting a dog who'd never lived inside was the 2 weeks in which she didn't yet know what sneakers, jackets or keys meant.
posted by deludingmyself at 5:33 PM on January 30, 2015 [2 favorites]


(Didn't last. She now gets up excitedly anytime someone stretches. Or turns off the television.)
posted by deludingmyself at 5:34 PM on January 30, 2015 [2 favorites]


I'm now imagining a dog who's never lived inside. I'm sad for a second, then very happy that you adopted her. Good on you.
posted by tallthinone at 5:37 PM on January 30, 2015 [10 favorites]


My dog isn't the smartest, but one thing that he's amazed me with is memorizing the number of various mundane things I might do before walking him. Now I have to be careful when I
-brush my teeth
-close my laptop
-jingle my keys
-kick off my slippers
-put my phone in my pocket
-rinse my french press

It's ridiculous. Pretty much 50% of my actions result in him running in circles in the living room barking.
posted by mannequito at 5:41 PM on January 30, 2015 [15 favorites]


She's not a golden, but my pippy girl (the black chi-something or other laying on my other Cookie girl) it turns out is a ball hoarder. She's ball crazy and it drives her to distraction that my wife and I cleaned out her ball hoarding spots!
posted by drewbage1847 at 5:41 PM on January 30, 2015 [12 favorites]


drewbagel1847: ADORABLE.
posted by olya at 5:49 PM on January 30, 2015


tallthinone: I'm now imagining a dog who's never lived inside. I'm sad for a second, then very happy that you adopted her. Good on you.

Imagine no more. Here she is looking very comfy indoors, right now.

She doesn't care much about balls, not as much as my other dog and definitely not as much as Georges. About the only thing that gets my dogs excited from the TV is doorbells.
posted by deludingmyself at 5:52 PM on January 30, 2015 [15 favorites]


Is the Ball Show on? The Ball Show, the show with the Ball? Is it on is it

THE BALL SHOW IS ON YES YESSSSSS

posted by Elly Vortex at 5:56 PM on January 30, 2015 [26 favorites]


shit, forgot we're obligated to provide accompanying pics of our dog masters - here is Tony, calm and content a few hrs ago after successfully barking his way into another outdoor adventure
posted by mannequito at 5:59 PM on January 30, 2015 [6 favorites]


Dog will watch this all day. Motto panukeiku!
posted by MonkeyToes at 6:08 PM on January 30, 2015 [3 favorites]


Damn I wish I had a golden. They're just pure joy and fun and life.

We've got this little white Pom/Corgi cross who's a head case, came from a severe hoarding situation. It took him a year with us before he came to realize that he was a dog and then finally adopted that pure joy that dogs have. Nonetheless, he has jealousy issues and while he's OK with my brother's golden, I don't think he'd put up with having one full time. I mean, he gets jealous of the cats and then runs downstairs to piss on the spare bed. Not going to subject our little monster to that level of insecurity.
posted by Ber at 6:26 PM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]


Georges also likes soccer, but not as much as tennis.
posted by maryr at 7:14 PM on January 30, 2015 [5 favorites]


Again with the brilliant pan... to sleeping Annie.
posted by deludingmyself at 7:45 PM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]


Georges is a good dog! Yes!

I would take Georges outside and throw a tennis ball for him all the time. But I would do that for any dog. Bring your dogs to me and we'll go to the park and play fetch all day.

Dogs! Dogs are the best!
posted by darksong at 8:19 PM on January 30, 2015 [4 favorites]


I'm kind of amazed that Georges manages to jump without ever bonking his snout against the screen. Given how disgusted with him the Not Interested dog looked, it seems like the kind of thing Georges might do.
posted by TwoStride at 8:24 PM on January 30, 2015 [2 favorites]


Dogs. Dogs are the best type.
posted by olya at 8:29 PM on January 30, 2015


The screen has to be getting clawed soon
posted by thelonius at 10:23 PM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]


I watched all 3+ minutes of that. I am a good dawg too.
posted by 724A at 10:33 PM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]


"Yo dawg I heard you like when dogs watch TV so I put dogs in the TV so you could watch a dog watch dogs on there."
posted by EatTheWeek at 11:53 PM on January 30, 2015 [1 favorite]


Our dog Rufus has been ball obsessed since we brought him home as a puppy, which came in handy when we had to walk him on dark mornings. More recently, it was our only way of getting him to sit still and pose for the camera.
posted by dvrmmr at 12:56 AM on January 31, 2015 [1 favorite]


Yaaay Georges. Also yay Annie, who is the best ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ever.

My obligatory contribution is just above (dvrmmr's comment), as we are both lucky enough to belong to Rufus.
posted by minsies at 2:32 AM on January 31, 2015


EatTheWeak: ""Yo dawg I heard you like when dogs watch TV so I put dogs in the TV so you could watch a dog watch dogs on there.""

I watched this too. What a good puppy/dog! Tbh, I get almost as excited as your pup when I watched Air Bud just that my back end does not go all out of alignment!

I guess I have found a new niche interest. Watching dogs watching dogs on TV.

-- Dawg 724A
posted by 724A at 7:49 AM on January 31, 2015


My dog gets excited when I click my screen off on my iPhone, close my laptop, or if he's really restless, shift in my seat on the sofa.
posted by lunasol at 4:17 PM on January 31, 2015


I react similarly whenever I see Maria Sharapova.
posted by InsertNiftyNameHere at 4:32 PM on January 31, 2015 [1 favorite]


I'm now imagining a dog who's never lived inside. I'm sad for a second, then very happy that you adopted her. Good on you.

What the hell? My much loved, very happy dog would never dare come inside. Much better for everyone. Why would you be judgemental about this?
posted by wilful at 3:59 AM on February 1, 2015


What the hell? My much loved, very happy dog would never dare come inside. Much better for everyone. Why would you be judgemental about this?

There are a ton of assumptions people bring to their opinions on the Role of the Modern Dog, but for the sake of context in this case, the dog tallthinone's imagining was an unwanted stray surrendered to a rescue organization during a spay and neuter operation on one of the nearby Native American reservations, and our temperatures get well below freezing here most winter nights. Having a bed inside here in Denver quite literally saves her from frostbite in a way that anything besides a heated doghouse probably wouldn't.
posted by deludingmyself at 1:29 PM on February 2, 2015


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