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(Unending hate for Nintendo. My laptop does so function as a wireless, jerks.)
Speaking of hated things, we have a dog right now. It's one of those little alarm dogs that some dumb housewife decided looked cute a few hundred years ago and brought inside against all reason. It's been partially debarked, which is to say, not enough. Also, it's actually capable of smiling - not the smiley look of most dogs but the full expression, and it gets upset if you don't smile back. If I wanted something to react to my expressions, I would find a person.
The dog has been amusing, though, because it's pretty much ears and mouth. It's not very bright and apparently has crap eyesight, so it'll bark at anything that moves in dim light (dim light being redefined as "anytime it's not actually bright" in this case.). My parents think this it's cute how brave the yapdog is. Brave would be biting. Barking madly is done to alert us so we can go take care of such horrifying threats as small kittens. You can walk right up and pat it on the head midway through one of these fits, and it'll quiet right down rather than attacking or something useful like that. Also, I chased it around with one of the cats, shouting "death from above"!
It really is amazing how hardwired dogs are to people, though. It's taken almost a week for it to even realize there are cats here, and today was the first day it managed to notice the foot-long lizard on the ground. And I'm pretty sure it only noticed the cat because she's started attacking it out of boredom. And even then, it drops everything the moment it notices people. Which makes it really annoying for observation purposes.
(Unending hate for Nintendo. My laptop does so function as a wireless, jerks.)
Speaking of hated things, we have a dog right now. It's one of those little alarm dogs that some dumb housewife decided looked cute a few hundred years ago and brought inside against all reason. It's been partially debarked, which is to say, not enough. Also, it's actually capable of smiling - not the smiley look of most dogs but the full expression, and it gets upset if you don't smile back. If I wanted something to react to my expressions, I would find a person.
The dog has been amusing, though, because it's pretty much ears and mouth. It's not very bright and apparently has crap eyesight, so it'll bark at anything that moves in dim light (dim light being redefined as "anytime it's not actually bright" in this case.). My parents think this it's cute how brave the yapdog is. Brave would be biting. Barking madly is done to alert us so we can go take care of such horrifying threats as small kittens. You can walk right up and pat it on the head midway through one of these fits, and it'll quiet right down rather than attacking or something useful like that. Also, I chased it around with one of the cats, shouting "death from above"!
It really is amazing how hardwired dogs are to people, though. It's taken almost a week for it to even realize there are cats here, and today was the first day it managed to notice the foot-long lizard on the ground. And I'm pretty sure it only noticed the cat because she's started attacking it out of boredom. And even then, it drops everything the moment it notices people. Which makes it really annoying for observation purposes.
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Date: 2007-08-10 02:31 am (UTC)If it reacts to human expressions it was probably raised to do so, if anyone owned it or trained it before then it was probably raised to think that it was a person or at least be attached to people so much that it wouldn't bother running away.
If you don't want it to notice you, you could spray a whole bunch of perfume or something else that's really smelly around the room to keep it from smelling you and stand inside a shadow to keep it from seeing you. It might work.
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Date: 2007-08-10 02:54 pm (UTC)Probably not. Dogs are really good at reading people because they're been bred that way. One of the things I don't like about them. The dog isn't smiling because it's happy, it's smiling because dogs that smile get picked as pets.
I don't really mind it noticing me. Anyway, it wouldn't work - this dog is an alarm dog, so its primary sense is its ears.