Weird behaviour with telly, any reflective surface

Goffie

Hi
My westie has always had issues with the telly - used to explode barking from the sofa at images of animals, aggressive behaviour, strange cartoon people etc, now he's stopped the barking and just runs to the telly and follows every movement. Big white head in the way when you're trying to watch the Olympics...
Sometimes then he paces around whining, looking behind the telly, looking at us, paces around other rooms until eventually settling. No amount of pacifying or telling him to be quiet works.

In the last two weeks he's become obsessed with all reflective surfaces - there's a dvd holder with a frosted panel that he sits in front of and whines or growls, a silver photo frame we had to move out of his eyeline - and last night he took to standing on his back legs to look at the pc screen, whining.

Has anyone ever come across this? I've googled all sorts of combinations and can find no refernces to this behaviour. Funnily enough, he has no interest in mirrors.
Any advice welcome - is it a 'phase' and we'd be best ignoring it or call in the behaviourists??

He's a happy, well-walked dog otherwise with and pretty placid unless you pass 'his' window!

Thanks a mil

ronanphilip

watched an epesoide of "It's Me or the Dog." a while back with a dog obsessed with reflections shadows and bright light. had a look around on google and found it click hereits the second eposide down with a dog called max. very intresting, may be helpful.

Goffie

Thanks soooo much! I watched it and I'm going to start what she suggests tonight - it makes perfect sense that it's attention-seeking as he's a major noticebox!

Fingers crossed Victoria's tips do the trick or i'll never watch Eastenders in peace again.

Cheers - really appreciated
G

ronanphilip

good luck, and let us know how you get on.