That's interesting actually. My dog, which is mostly an Australian Cattle herding dog (red heeler) will not watch t.v. . Unfortunately he does know almost all of our language so if we talk about some things like going somewhere or going for a drive he immediately is by the front door waiting to go along.
Sometimes we take him on short trips and he is well behaved. Unfortunately he is a shedder as well. Short haired and a reddish coat.
He is about 70 pounds. foot and a half tall and about three feet long. Smartest of the three dogs we have had. By far. Although the Brittany Spaniel was fairly bright but not quite to Charlie's level. I miss my Brittany. She died early of some internal disease that was not curable. I stayed with her until her stopped. She was special.