Have you ever attempted to teach your pet how to use your cell phone?

No, but Molly figured out how to open the door when she was younger to let herself in so we taught her to turn around and close the door behind her. She was better about it than the kids!
In her old age she can’t jump up on her hind legs so she can’t do it anymore poor baby. We are in the process of teaching Axel now.

No. One of my dogs is like Houdini though. She can open the gate we use to keep her out of one end of the house. Still, I don’t think she has the mental ability to use my Smartphone.

Do your animals react to technology in any way? The most I can get out of mine, is the dog might lift his ears if hearing other dogs on the TV speaker. But I can’t even get him to look at the screen, much less, take an interest in it.

It’s as if it doesn’t even exist.

I’ve had a cat try to catch racing cars as they whizzed past on the TV screen. Other than that no. They aren’t remotely interested.

Oh my cat likes to sit on my laptop and the Foxtel box. I think that’s about keeping his little furry body warm OR about distracting my attention back to its rightful place, on him.

Our kitten has played games on the iPad.

That’s funny. Yes, I’ve had Leica (cat) chase objects around the screen before.

@hearkat Does she know what she’s doing?... Or just chasing things around on the screen?

I feel this might be the appropriate place to leave this.

MIlo here; I have tried (truly I have) but Gail is simply too dense to understand that you have to push the “Power” button and then wait a bit.

After one try, she starts to whine, which I hate.

She is also incapable of seeing that the charger cord is not just a toy for me to chew on or bat around.

Sometimes I really want to turn her in for a 5.

Oh my! @glacial Oh my!

Chelsie (the cat) once called 911 when I was at work. Apparently, she jumped up on the desk, knocked the receiver off the hook and pressed the programmed emergency button. When the call was answered, all the operator heard was a scuffling noise (as she walked across papers). I got a call from the apt. complex explaining that they had let the EMTs in, only to find Chelsie sitting on the desk, next to the phone, and looking out the window. The handset was velcroed down after that.

Another time, I came home to find her sitting like this on the sofa. Instead of a beer bottle, she had the remote control by her side. Maybe I should have set up a surveillance camera to see what she was really up to during the day.

I knew a cat that liked printing things. haha
He discovered the feed button on the printer and would press it to make the paper come out and then he would attack it. lol

@glacial That frog kicks ass.

If it was edible. Puppy shows interest and then realizes it is NOT edible and moves on!

Other than attempting to knock my phone out of my hands when demanding I give her attention, our puppy has no interest in technology.

I had to smile when I read your question, and I nearly laughed out loud at the idea of your attempt to get your pets interested in the telephone.

Willow gets “interested” in my phone to the extent that she wants to speak – and does speak – any time I’m on a voice call for more than a minute or so. (That’s a rare occurrence, so it’s something that she seems to notice.) Whether I’m listening or speaking, when that call has a couple of back-and-forth speaking parts, then she’s on her feet and in my grill… and “talking”.

When she hears animal sounds on television, she cocks her head in the way that dogs often do to triangulate sound better, and she pays close attention to (some of) the images there, especially if they’re screen-size shots of animals that she might recognize. We watched a show on wolves several weeks ago, and you’d have thought it was her own family on screen, she was so intensely interested in all of the sounds and many of the close-up images. Sounds from sea animals (on television) sometimes interest her, but those images not at all.

The one piece of technology that I have tried to introduce her to is… my doorbell. I’ve tried to show her what makes the sound (the chime hanging on my living room wall), and how it is produced (by showing her me pressing the button to make the sound), but all to no avail. That sound is her accursed and sworn enemy, and she will never forgive, never forget (that sound) and never accept it, wherever it occurs or wherever she is.

Thanks for a fun question.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies – He just swats at what’s on the screen and can’t understand why it doesn’t come out from underneath it.

Both of the cats will ponder the screen on which we watch TV or movies, but it doesn’t hold their interest for long.

Way back in the dark days when VCR was king, our cat at the time grew fascinated by the display whenever we hit ffwd, a series of bright twinkling lights ran across the length of the unit, she would “chase” it like she was on a mission, cats…at the back of the queue when they were handing brains out.

Strangest question ever!

^^^Stranger than this one?

You ever gonna let that go?

strangers in the night, exchanging glances…dooby, dooby doo…

More like a shipwreck in the night!

My dog runs to the phone when it rings. I don’t know if she thinks it’s for her or if she wants to make sure I heard it ring.

My dogs run to the kitchen when I open the can opener…and we’ve NEVER fed them canned food.

@Dutchess_III And yet, she thinks it’s for her… maybe she thinks your can opener is a phone.

Could be! It looks kind of like a cell phone.

I wish I could teach my dog to find my phone for me. Especially when the battery is dead.

No kidding. I needed to call the fire department over Christmas time….and I COULDN’T FIND MY FREAKING PHONE!!! Had to go to the neighbor’s house….

@Judi I tried that. Turns out phones don’t work as well when covered in slobber.