Why do cats look out the window and dogs never do?

[Lautremont]

No never, probably, but it's always the kitties you see sitting and looking out the window. Is it just that they fit better on a windowsill, or is there a deeper reason?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. I've never noticed that...

All the dogs in the neighborhood I grew up in sit at their doors and watch the cars go by.
Duckie

[Cannikin]

2. Why does my dog watch TV but my cat doesnt?

[Haole Girl]

3. Hmm...I don't know...a lot of them do, but a lot of them don't...

[av8rdave]

4. My dog will sit on the back of the sofa and look out the window all day

'Course, he's a small dog...

[redwitch]

6. awwwww.

cute pooch!

[av8rdave]

31. Thanks....

I was always a "big dog" person, but I gotta admit...he's a neat little guy.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. My dog would always do the same thing.

He wasn't big, but he wasn't small, either.

[qnr]

36. self-delete n/t

[Mutley]

5. My dog looks out the window.

She loves watching people go by.

[Broken_Hero]

7. my dog looks out the window

all the time...he does it so much, it gets annoying sometimes...our couch is right next to the window, and he is always half on the window sill, half on the couch...looking outside...and when I'm sitting there, his pack paws rest on my shoulder...:)

[bicentennial_baby]

8. my dogs love to look out the window....

they be lookin for animals to eat... hehe :)

[Roon]

9. Check out this kitty in the window

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/01/barkingcat.html

[Lautremont]

13. I love that thing!

And to everyone else who's answered this post: I believe! I believe that dogs look out the window!

No dog I've ever owned has done so, strangely, but every cat has obssessively.

[zanne]

22. Because your cat owns your neighborhood.

And he has to guard his real estate.

[China_cat]

10. Can I send you the nose prints on my living room window?

My dogs stand on the couch with noses pressed to the glass to watch the dog next door or the squirrels in the tree.

Do you know how hard it is to clean dog snot off a window?

[sweetheart]

32. Dog snot on windows

Some day the window cleaner people will figure out what we're really up against!!!

I have that dog snot on every car window, as if the window is not open to put dog
head out in to the wind, it is there to bump nose against and snnnooootttt! :-)

Once that stuff hardens, its like epoxy.

[bigwillq]

11. The dogs on my street look out the window.

And they bark. A lot. :mad:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Cats meditate

Dogs will look out the window if there's something entertaining out there. Cats enjoy being entertained too; but the better part of their day is spent in meditation.

Only, instead of "Om", their mantra is "Purrrrrrr"

[qnr]

38. Which, in cat language, means "sleeping while sitting up" n/t

[tuvor]

15. My dog looks out the window.

But he has to practice his violin.

[hfojvt]

16. How much is that kitty in the window?

Oh wait, that's not right.

Dogz rule!!!

[billyskank]

17. Because cats are really fucking nosey

[Jamastiene]

29. We have a winner.

That saying, "Curiosity killed the cat." doesn't come from nowhere. It has a strong basis. Anybody who knows cats, knows they are extremely nosey.

[Liberal In Texas]

18. My dog has a perch at the window and looks out all the time.

She has something against UPS or FedEx trucks. Hates them.

She also dislikes cats a lot. Squirrels. People walking up and down the street. Anyone that leaves a flyer on the door. She barked at a helicopter once.

Oddly, the mailman is OK.

:-)

[murielm99]

19. Every accessible window in my house

had doggie nose-marks on it. My dog especially loves to sit in the bay window with her paws up on the sill.

Of course my cat looks out the windows, too. I am glad they coexist, and do not compete for the same window.

[Kutjara]

20. On a related note...

...why do dogs always get up and bark when the phone rings? When has a fucking call ever been for them?

Morons.

[RebelOne]

21. My kitchen window is full of slobber marks.

My Rottie loves to sit and stare out the window. And my car windows are a mess when I take the two dogs for a ride.

[NewWaveChick1981]

23. Both of my dogs love looking out the window.

They do it all the time and leave nose niffs on the windows. :P Also, my dog Vicki loves watching out the back storm door so she can scope squirrels.

[flvegan]

24. The vision of the cat is far superior to that of the dog, therefore, they

"look at stuff" whereas dogs tend to "smell stuff" or "listen for stuff" as their vision, well, kinda sucks (most breeds, not including the sighthounds, etc.).

[philosophie_en_rose]

25. My dogs sit in a row on the window for hours.

It's like their television. Three little terriers sitting on the window sill.

They bark at cats, watch people, and get a little sun.

[terrya]

26. The dogs we had looked out the window.

:shrug:

[MissMillie]

27. dogs do... they like to "hunt" squirrel

the cats are always looking at the birds.

[Jamastiene]

28. According to May Sarton, the author of the book, The Fur Person,

looking out the window is a cat's version of reading the newspaper. I think that may be true. Plus cats seem to have a meditation ritual that dog do not normally have either. Cats are just deep thinkers. What other animal can successfully avoid taking a pill or doing tricks or anything else it doesn't want to do? Cats are brilliant creatures with a sick twisted sense of humor. When they look out the window, they are gathering inspiration for the next cruel practical joke they will pull on you. That's why I love them so much. :evilgrin:

[hedgehog]

30. How can dogs tell that a deer is in the yard?

My dogs will be sleeping on the floor and will all of a sudden leap up and run out to their pen to bark at deer. Do they have magic ears or really an incredible sense of smell that they know from inside a sealed house that the deer are wandering around out back?

[sweetheart]

35. Deer & foxes

Same 'ere, the little predators watch far in to the distance for animals to bark at.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. My dog knew the UPS man was delivering a package here

before he turned the corner on our block the other day.

He doesn't bark at them unless they're delivering to us or to the neighbors directly across the street. It was bizarre...

[photogirl12]

33. I wouldn't say never

my dog would spend the whole day looking out the door of my store if I let him.

[elfrangel]

34. I would argue that...

Julie (my black lab mix) LOVES to lay on the back of the couch and look out our front window. She also chases mice, bugs, and is a great opossum killer!!!

[qnr]

37. My dogs did both the windows & TVs (pics)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. I don't know why...

but my cats *live* on this windowsill. They can't get enough of whatever is going on out there.

[jus_the_facts]

40. Here's my Brutus in his window hammock...

....I can't have curtains because the babies need their window to sleep in...so I just have a comforter that hangs from the curtain rod...folded and stuck behind the couch so they can have their window bed...that stops them from sheddin' all over the back of the couch too...he's lovin' it..my purrrty boy! :D

[Skittles]

41. because dogs know they are owned, know their place

a cat kinows no such thing

[greatauntoftriplets]

42. The dogs I have known look out the window lots....

My sister used to have a dog who stayed with us whenever they went away. That dog could walk the back of the couch and not lose her balance to perpetually survey the neighborhood. And, she would head to the front door and start to whine whenever it was about time for me to get home. She stayed there, without fail, until I got home. How the hell was that dog able to tell time? I called her Brandy the Wonder Dog.

[qnr]

43. Cats are just vain, they think they're on TV for the world to see.

When in reality we laugh at them, and think they mess up the view of the curtains.

Edit: Actually, I like cats, but dogs were being put down :)

[Pithlet]

45. I know what you mean. Dogs look out the window at stuff

But they don't often just hang out at the window in that watching the world go by way that cats do. Dogs are usually more purposeful. If northing's going on, they'll get bored and go do something else, or they'll go to sleep.

[petronius]

46. Because cats have giant brains and are filled with curiosity,

while dogs basically just eat poop? :shrug: