Does your animal like music?

[Buttercup]

I saw a headline @ Yahoo asking what's your dog's favorite music. Lol!

That brings to mind a guinea pig I had years ago, who trilled angrily whenever she heard The Beatles; but she chirped softly/happily to Elvis. :-p

What about your pet(s)?

[Perikles]

This is odd, because we have just adopted a puppy (mongrel, but mostly Podenco = Spanish greyhound). She reacts violently to Schubert piano music, running to the speakers and howling at high volume. She likes Schubert string quartets as well, and Mozart. She even reacts to music when played for a few seconds in the background of some TV programme, provided it is an orchestral instrument. This reaction consists of loud and persistent howling, stopping when the music stops.

She doesn't seem to react to anything else, though I must admit, she doesn't hear much else.

[Solfe]

One of my cats tried to climb in the speakers whenever I play music with a live audience. The other two cats could car less about my musical selections, but the cat that is interested seems to be looking for all the "people".

[starcanuck64]

My former girlfriend's cat used to climb onto a chair right in front of a speaker whenever we played certain music, usually blues. I also play a little slide guitar and the cat really seemed to find that enjoyable also going by the sounds she would make sometimes. She'd jump up in my partners lap and purr loudly(which she didn't do often) or come in and "tell" me about what she thought of my playing.

My sister also has a Border Collie that goes nuts when I play the guitar, he almost starts dancing which is a hoot.

[Gillianren]

D is largely indifferent to music, as apparently is Malcolm. However, D used to watch Good Eats faithfully, even to the extent of leaving the room during commercials and coming back when the theme played. My roommate knew a cat who would lie against the drum while her owner played it.

[R.A.F.]

D is largely indifferent to music, as apparently is Malcolm.

Our cats are like that...I can play the loudest heavy metal music, and our cats will sleep right through it.

[Swift]

I played the tuba in high school. Our dog (an Irish Setter) was absolutely terrified of it, hated the sound of it (you can blame my playing if you like), and it got to the point that just taking it out of the case was enough to get her to run away. But one of our cats, Doris, would then show up and curl up for a nap in the open tuba case. She seemed otherwise indifferent to the tuba.

My cousin Carol had a dog, a Saluki, that would howl along when you played the piano.

One of our more recent cats, Samantha, like to watch running water. One day we put some sort of mood music on the stereo and it had the sound of a babbling brook. She spent a lot of time looking at the speakers, including going around to their backsides, to try to find the water.

Our current cats seem very sensitive to loud sounds, though they seem indifferent to music. But the phone ringing, the doorbell, or even sneezing sends them running for cover.

[Gillianren]

D only has a problem with sneezing if he's on my lap when I do it.

[starcanuck64]

Our current cats seem very sensitive to loud sounds, though they seem indifferent to music. But the phone ringing, the doorbell, or even sneezing sends them running for cover.

My brother had some very skittish cats, he had an acreage in cattle country and the coyotes kept the cats on their toes. They came in during the day and on one visit my brother went up on his roof to clean his stovepipe which was becoming dangerously clogged with kreosote. I was sitting calmly in the kitchen with the three cats when the sound of the metal brush coming down the stovepipe began and found myself in the middle of an explosion of cats. They took off in all directions and bounced off the walls or whatever else was in their way. They eventually got straightened out and ended up hiding under a bed.

[TJMac]

I dated a girl back in the '80s that kept a couple of snakes. I want to say Boa Constrictors, but that could be incorrect, not sure now.

At any rate, she would take them out of their cages, put on some music rather low, and crank the bass all the way up. I do not have any idea now, what the music was, but in minutes, the snakes had wrapped around the speakers and just stayed there while the music played.

TJ