A Basset Hound Gets Hypnotized By A Metronome

Living with us in mega-cities or in small villages, on the sea, in the desert and even in space or on the North Pole, they march along, leaving 4 paw traces, our friends - dogs. They are glorified in legends since days ancient as being more faithful than people and remain close in perilous times. There are volumes of poems inspired by and devoted to them, monuments erected in their remembrance and the never-fading memories we cherish of growing up with our first dog.

In ancient times, dogs helped our ancestors hunt for mammoth and toothed tigers. Dog teams bare the credit naturalists, geologists and other adventure-seekers ventured into expeditions and conquest of the Arctic and Antarctic. In the world of today, many dogs live a comfortable couch life next to their beloved owners and we are grateful to them for the company.

Among other things, people love to show off with their pets. Pets get to be treated as stars, as cute toy creatures that give one joy or even admired as that ugly, but a ridiculously funny pet that is bound to make your day. Pets are, and this is a fact, one of the top-5 keyword searches on the Internet.

However, the Internet was first conquered by cats: a lazy cat, an angry cat, a cross-eyed cat, a brave cat (Remember the hero cat who saved the little boy from a dog attack? Of course, we all do!) these were on the all-star list of Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. Photos, videos, memes, gif’s, whatever you could possibly imagine to share online was instantly gaining immense popularity! Entire audiences of admirers and subscribers started to gather and expanded. And how did our dogs leg behind in this pet-craze? They actually did not! Dogs confidently began to catch up with the mustachioed mousers. And not only catch up, they even started overshadowing their popularity.

People say that, over time, dogs start to resemble their owners, both in looks and in behavior. Whether it is the dog that starts to imitate their humans, or the humans start to identify themselves with their dogs, it doesn’t matter, there are hundreds of photos online where dogs look or behave almost exactly like their owners! This is why we decided to show you a video where a dog behaves exactly like a human would if placed in the same situation.

The room is bathed in natural light, it is clean, spacious and quiet and if a psychiatrist is watching this video he or she would agree that it meets all the standards and criteria for a hypnosis session. A metronome is there as well, to fit the picture perfectly. What you would least expect is to see Basset Hound sitting next to the metronome, studiously observing its rhythmical movements. The question now is whether dogs, sharing their lives with humans for millennia, have grown to resemble us in such an extent that the metronome would manage to hypnotize this Basset? Watch!

Yes, it appears that a metronome has the same effect on dogs, it’s a combination of movement and repetitive sound are both fascinating for our Basset. The movement drew its focus, and the sound occupied his ears. Eventually, his brain decided to ignore the repetitive sounds, and our friend laid down on the floor next to the mechanism and entered into a trance state. So adorable!

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