Does your dog or cat respond to music?

Is it a rescue dog?

Your dog is an idiot, op.

My dog loves Marias Callas for bathtime, Harry Bellefonte for dancetime, and when I blow on those paper party horns (for anytime). Dislikes include the Law & Order theme song and 'Tell Me Something Good'.

^*Maria

I had a parrot who really liked Motown

If I start to sing, my dog will aggressively try to lick my face until I stop.

My pussy loves music.

I have two friends who have a tea cup poodle. (I know… say what you want about “kick dogs” but he is kind of cute and makes my friends happy). They dote on this dog, but have humane so when they leave to go out, the dog goes in his crate and they say “Alexa, play ‘Calm my dog.’”

Well there’s a “Calm my cat” playlist that our two 15 y/os react well to. I wish I thought of it 10 years ago!

Cats may respond more to music with higher-pitched tones or chirp-like sounds that resemble how they communicate with humans. This could be because they associate these sounds with positive interactions or attention from their humans.

When my dog was a puppy, he would scream when we were in the car. It was the most bloodcurdling, loud, horrendous sound you could imagine. We thought maybe calming music would help and tried all kinds. Eventually we discovered that listening to any soprano aria did the trick. He's old now and doesn't give a rip anymore. He gets in the car and falls straight to sleep.

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Whenever my dog hears music that is choral or operatic, he starts howling.

Miss Sissy Boodles LOVES Wet Ass Pussy.

Our pug HATED the song Jump Around and would freak out from the screechy part. You don’t realize how often that song gets played in movies until you have a pug that freaks out from it.

My parakeets like to listen to Elvis Presley songs......my dog walks away.

Harry Bellefonte???

My Boston & Chihuahua love contemporary jazz.

They also love my Sheena Easton playlist

R15, my budgies seem to love music, especially whatever features the higher registers.

Or they hate it.

At any rate, they react quite vocally.

My late giant Maine Coon was famous for stanning ... get this... Michael Mcdonald. Of all people.

My sister is a big MM fan, and when she was up in the wee hours working on her dissertation she'd stream music on the PC. Over time I noticed Nomi would randomly hop out of bed and lie down on the wood (soon you'll see why that detail is important) floor in the living room or front hall. I'd think "Hmmm, that's odd."

One night I saw him hop out of bed then plop down on the floor again, but this time I saw his plumed tail switch from side to side, then THUMP! THUMP! on the hard wood floor. Then I got it--it was "Sweet Freedom" he was hearing, and that huge plumed tail was switching and thumping in time with the beat.

I was floored. I didn't say anything to anyone, but started watching more closely. Sure enough Nomi reacted only to MM, and when "Sweet Freedom" came on, like clockwork that tail would thump and swish with the beat. Eventually I told my sister to tip in quietly and watch Nomi. When she saw him she fell out laughing.

Years later, even when he was racked with pain, dying from lymphoma, when his Auntie G. played that song just for him, Nomi's plume would switch and thump in time and rhythm.

I’ve had two different cats, 20 years apart, both of whom would get extremely agitated and begin tearing around the house whenever this Chopin prelude would come on.

For a little while, when she was a puppy and I would have to go out for a little while, I would put this music to calm her down. Of course after only three times, it had the complete opposite effect, because the music would signal that I was about to go out without her, and she would just freak out in a matter of seconds. So yes, she respond strongly to that music.

Otherwise not so much and even if in the meantime her separation anxiety is mild at worst, she can still become destructive (lots of Jack Russell terriers can be because of all the energy) if the separation lasts more than a couple of hours. One night I slept out like a tramp and when I came back home in early morning my whole queen size mattress had turned into a mess of confetti and I still find bits of it here and there four years later.

R19 again.

I don't know if it's even considered "music," but starting with my Maine Coon, up to today, ANY time I start singing, wherever they are in the house my cats rush to where I am, looking for the wounded elk--the obviously *badly* wounded elk. Soooooo fucking disrespectful.

So now I do my singing only in the shower (bathrooms are a cat no-go area), and in the kitchen when chopping onions (they keep clear of same).

R14, my pug would start tilting her head every time she heard bells or whistles

Ours too, R23, and bark and howl every time there were horses. You also don’t realize how many horses there are in movies…