I've got a very visual dog. We sometimes say he's dumb, but OBSTINATE is a better word. On the other hand, in terms of his visual acuity and comprehension, he's extremely smart - able to do some things that I can't. (F'rinstance, if he enters a room he was last in 30 minutes earlier, his attention immediately goes to things that have moved or are new. He resists obeying when we tell him to 'sit,' or 'come,' or 'play dead,' but he does really well with hand signals for those same things.)
This evening, I'm watching Toy Story 2 which I recorded in 2004. I knew years ago that there'd come a time when I wouldn't have cable, so I recorded movies. A *lot* of movies. My movie spreadsheet says 10,607 - though some are TV shows and some are duplicates of earlier recordings. The dog walks around and doesn't pay it much attention. But a moment ago, Woody fell off a shelf and landed on the little brown dachshund and WOW did Stewey ever pay attention... running in circles and whining in front of it. In fact, I paused the show while this pretend dog was running, and an image of it stayed on the screen. My dog sat down and stared at it until I got it moving again! LOL... and that was a BLURRED image!
Gotta love dogs. They keep things interesting. I'm also pleased that my 20-year-old recordings are still working. I wish now that I'd recorded in higher quality but I was a penny-pincher (hard to believe, huh?) and I've sometimes got three movies jammed together on a single disc. The important thing is that they're still entertaining. I thought I'd read that homemade DVDs fail after seven or eight years. Guess not.
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