From head tilts to pawing at the glass, animals everywhere are glued to the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dogs keep pawing at the TV during a specific Netflix cartoon\u2026 that wasn\u2019t made for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A South Korean cartoon about a colony of seals has turned into an unexpected hit with animals, and social media is full of videos of dogs standing inches from the screen, tilting their heads and batting at the glass. One Oregon woman told The Guardian that a clip of her two goldendoodles watching it pulled nearly 10 million views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe minute the seals started drumming, Benny sat up, and Myrtle had these subtle head tilts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The show is Sealook, a wordless slapstick series co-produced by The Pinkfong Company and Million Volt. It premiered in South Korea in 2022 and later landed on Netflix, where it\u2019s listed as a TV-Y kids\u2019 comedy. It was made for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSeeing cats and now dogs as well, becoming so absorbed in Sealook has been a fun and unexpected surprise,\u201d Leah Yeon, Pinkfong\u2019s communications lead, told The Guardian. She said they didn\u2019t set out to make a show for animals, but what they did make is pretty (and accidentally), perfect for one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dogs and cats are dichromatic, meaning they see blues and yellows well but struggle to distinguish reds and greens. Sealook is pale ice, blue water, and brightly colored seals, so almost the entire color palette falls inside the range an animal can actually distinguish. Netflix noted in its own feature on the show that viewers started pointing this out in late summer, and that it\u2019s a coincidence rather than a design choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then there\u2019s the movement on the screen. \u201cCats and dogs are particularly interested in movement because they are instinctively drawn to chasing a mouse or other prey,\u201d David Williams, an associate lecturer in veterinary ophthalmology at the University of Cambridge, told The Guardian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Freya Mowat, a veterinary ophthalmologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, put it more plainly to the paper: \u201cCartoons are great content for dogs: high contrast, lots of movement, nice fun music, it\u2019s the whole package.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sound may matter as much as the picture. Emily Blackwell, a companion-animal behavior specialist, told The Guardian that the noises the seals make could register as prey sounds or as squeaky toys. Williams suggested an easy at-home test: turn the sound off and see whether your dog stays interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 2024 study in Applied Animal Behaviour Science surveyed 1,246 dog owners and found that 86% said their dogs watched screens, with 90% of those owners citing movement as what grabbed the dog\u2019s attention and 78% citing sound. However, that study is about dogs and screens in general, not this show\u2014and it says nothing about cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nobody has actually tested Sealook<\/em> on a representative sample of animals. But what does exist is a pile of videos of pets that do appear to be watching, and a reasonable enough theory about why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, plenty of dogs don\u2019t care at all. As one commenter put it: \u201cI put this on for my dog, and she\u2019s watching me instead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From head tilts to pawing at the glass, animals everywhere are glued to the screen. Dogs keep pawing at the TV during a specific Netflix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/856375808_1418601786517743_2928182049215319611_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12283,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions\/12283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}