It's NOT Funny!!!

[applesmom]

I couldn't agree more. These behaviors, particularly the spinning, are all too common in rescue dogs in the sporting breeds. Dogs that are bred to have energy and stamina and have never been provided with any healthy outlet for their energy.

[pitc9]

OMG I'm so glad it bothers other people and not just me!
Just the other night I was watching AFV and there was a dog that was snarling at it's own tail, then it used one of it's front paws to pull it's back leg closer to it to try to attack it's tail!!

It bothers me to no end that people think that is funny!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Not only are the pet videos not funny, neither are some of the human ones. I'm surprised some of the pet videos are even allowed to be shown. I've always questioned the validity of those shows anyway. In 85% of the films........someone just happened to have a camera filming it?

[Catlady711]

I stopped watching AFV quite some time back. They had started showing more videos of kids doing gross things (like stuff involving boogers and such ewwww), and showing kids being so mean and disrespectful (hitting and kicking adults) and then to top it off they pay these people for this trash!!!

I just can't abide by watching that kind of trash, and I think that people that find it funny are the exact reason kids are more increasingly having no respect for adults or authority in general.

[Lori Jordan]

I have to say some of the videos are cute.

But,Some should not be on Tv,Monday night i watched and they had 30 seconds of dogs.

Which they were flipping over backwards,Doing summersalts.

That is dangerous,All together AFV is funny,But some things i could go without seeing,I do not like seeing people get hurt.

As to Funniest Animal Planet,I can not stand that show,The Guy talks like an idiot,I have not seen a full hour of that show yet.

[Karen]

I have never had the stomach to watch that show. Most of it seems to be people getting hurt, or animals getting hurt. Maybe my sense of humor is flawed, but I don't see how a man getting hit in the privates by a football - for example - is funny.

[lute]

I agree SunsetRose! I'm hope that the people that do this with their dogs also see those episodes of The Dog Whisperer to show that their dogs are really just....crazy.

[cyber-sibes]

As to Funniest Animal Planet,I can not stand that show,The Guy talks like an idiot,I have not seen a full hour of that show yet.

Ack, I feel that way too, I can't stand that guy. It bothers me to see what some people consider "funny" in these videos. I think they're demeaning.

[Twisterdog]

I've only seen the program a couple times. Some of the videos I saw were so cute ... not ALL the animals on there were neurotic or in dangerous situations. Some were just plain adorable!

I can't comment too much, since I've never actually seen too many videos like this.

But I will say, our dog Rosie LOVES the laser pointer game. If I took a video of her chasing that little red dot around the kitchen like a complete maniac, she would definately look disturbed and neurotic. But, that's only ten minutes out of her day, and she LOVES it. Vanilla will chase a tennis ball until she can't run anymore, Rosie chases a laser light. Either way, it's fun and it's good exercise. The other 23 hours and 50 minutes of the day, she's a perfectly normal dog ... well, for a bulldog, anyway.

I think it might be a little quick to judge a dog's entire disposition and life by a 60 second video.