Comments on: Real dogs teased with toy dog

By: Hillel Viking

Hillel Viking — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The robodog did elicit a reaction from the biodog, but it definitely wasn’t all negative. There’s some “play solicitation” body language from the living dog in parts of the video, including the classic play solicitation posture: front quarters lowered, tail wagging, ears forward.

In other words biodog’s language in the clip is saying something like this: 1. “Whoa!” 2. “Holy Crap.” 3. “Hey, this is my territory.” 4. “Dude, chill.” 5. “Hmmmmm.” 6. “Hey, uh, wanna play?”

By: mydog

mydog — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Reminds me of the way my sister used to watch ‘Dr Who’ way back when (in the 60′s, I think it was). She would lurk outside in the passage and peep around the edge of the door and when the Darleks moved she’d disappear.

By: badinia

badinia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Isobel’s just scared of being replaced with cheaper, longer-lasting replicant dogs- as are we all!

My doggy, not known for having a great sense of smell, alternately play-bows and growls at a bear sculpture. Dogs don’t really understand art.

By: NidSquid

NidSquid — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Some friends were renovating and had taken down a stuffed deer head that they had hanging on the wall and placed it on the floor. My dog became obsessed with it. She would sniff it all over, lick it’s face and refuse to be parted from it. She sat by it for hours, growling at the other dogs if they came too close. I can’t for the life of me imagine what on earth she thought it was! Crazy dog.

By: Antinous

Antinous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A cat would pin it down and leisurely strip the flesh from it, all the while enjoying its shrieks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I like to pull out my Sony Aibo and let my dog run around with it. He thinks it is just a friend.

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

LOL – Is there anything meaner (or more fun) than teasing and confusing dogs?

By: dougrogers

dougrogers — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is one of those generational things. Probably a first for the YouTube generation. Get a new cat, put out a realistic stuffed cat or stuffed bear…. wait twenty years for the cat to die. Get a new cat. Put out a stuffed cat or stuffed bear…. Same with dogs. If they only had a culture and written history they could pass along the knowledge and the next generation wouldn’t look like idiots.

By: tyrell_corporation

tyrell_corporation — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

teased and confused my badass cat too – while I was watching the barking got her curious and on the prowl

By: JFlex

JFlex — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Regarding chimps and fake leopard:

The initial overdub makes it sound like we’re watching a promotional piece for a lever manufacturer.

Neat video.

By: ployntabs

ployntabs — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

when I was ten I tied a GI Joe sized action figure called Johnny West to the back of my cat. I raised Johnny’s right hand up and set the cat loose. It looked like Johnny West was riding a Bengal tiger in a rodeo.

Awesome

By: Kibble

Kibble — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I suspect that, in the canine world, the uncanny valley is twice the size of the Grand Canyon. Dogs are routinely infuriated by bugs, sunlight, shadows, vacuum cleaners, wind, bowtie pasta, the very idea of a daily package delivery service, November, and the presence (or absence) of squirrels.

I don’t believe that dogs even recognize that other dogs exist. They recognize three types of objects, 1) stuff I eat (or gnaw) 2) stuff I boink and 3) stuff I bark at.

My sister had a dog (now passed on to his eternal reward) who nearly had an aneurysm every time he heard the whistling in the theme from the Andy Griffith show.

But then, I must admit that Goober resides in my own uncanny valley.

By: Jackasimov

Jackasimov — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKpZUsRJWBg

chimps and fake leopard. Same/same.

By: Antinous

Antinous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I thought that it was Fidel, not Che. The beard was too bushy for Che.

By: Antinous

Antinous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

chimps and fake leopard

That clip is surreal, but not as surreal as the comments.

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

you reading my mail?

By: arkizzle

arkizzle — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ya know, I actually wrote “a young Fidel” first, and then erased it for Che because of the cheeky glint in his eye. Fidel never had that glint that made Che such a handsome devil.

Maybe he has an extra beard on as a diguise..

By: buddy66

buddy66 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Stefan Jones, you are one mean bahstid. Our new mechanical canine overlords are going to deal harshly with you.

By: Acromegaly

Acromegaly — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

my pug is going ballistic just listening to that thing bark on my screen…I can’t stop laughing, I might have to buy one just to entertain myself..

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

RE uncanny valley, James Lileks wrote a great blog entry about his dog reacting to a furless, robot-style mechanical dog. He (the dog) tried to protect his humans from it. At one point he (again, the dog) sniffed under the toy’s tail, and looked spooked.

Lileks suggested that the experience might be like shaking someone’s hand only to discover that it’s at room temperature.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dogs know a Terminator when they see one.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

#11: Kira (woof) is a high-prey drive dog with a compulsion to chase stuff. The right mechanical prey-beast would be good energy-draining entertainment for her.

By: angusm

angusm — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Compare and contrast:

http://www.csl.sony.fr/items/2000/dog-versus-aibo/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Part of the dog’s unpleasant reaction may have been to the ultra-high pitched, ultra-annoying noise the robopup was making.

Dogs have very sensitive ears, and are easily peeved by loud, high-pitched sounds.

Plus, that thing’s just plain annoying. I know I wanted it to shut up.

By: arkizzle

arkizzle — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In the chimps and leopard video:

Is that Che Guevara setting up the machine at around 00:11?

Check the photo I linked, same cheeky grin.

By: dougrogers

dougrogers — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dog attacking Aibo was territory guarding.

By: Xopher

Xopher — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is so meeeeen! But funny.

I think I’d stop when the dog started getting visibly upset. But I’m kind of a chickenshit that way.

By: W. James Au

W. James Au — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This all happened because robo dog had no ass to smell. Seriously, look it up.

By: mego

mego — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think that would be a much shorter clip with my dog. He’s just grab it and shake it till it fell apart.

By: stratojoe

stratojoe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I once confounded a pair of office dachshunds with a homemade dachshund pinata. They were pretty freaked out by it, but once they did the butt sniff they tore it to pieces. It was the moments leading up to the butt sniff that were the most hilarious.

Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of being a dogfather, and I have to say that I am less likely to tease a dog these days – mainly because of the fact that we have 10 thousand years of domestic bonding between us. 10,000 years! (give or take) That is quite a relationship, and one which I don’t take lightly. (It’s also the reason I’ll never get another dog – there’s way too much emotion involved)

Oh.. the poor things though.. They’re just trying their best, and the damn pink monkey throws a robot dog at ‘em. What a bunch of jerks we are.