#2 post What effects does music have on humans and animals

Everyone listens to music these days and you hear music everywhere. I listen to music on my computer and if I ever turn on my radio I switch to music station. Unfortunately there’s no music on TV because unlike satellite cable has no music on it. I rarely watch it anymore, except when I want to check out some of the MTV TV series such as Jersey Shore on demand or to watch family guy at nights.
Moving on from network devices you also hear music in public places like shopping malls, grocery stores and many other places. When you go to some grocery stores that play music your mood starts changing and you might feel like staying in the place and buy more! Once in a grocery store I spent two hours to buy a bag of chips because I knew they played my favorite songs there; So I ended up buying a frozen pizza, a can of soda, magazine and bunch of other things that I didn’t intend to buy at first.
Music is a great changer of mood and not only for us [humans] but also animals too. One day I was watching a videos on utube and I came across a video in which a guy was telling a story about a cat that could “miraculously” play piano. I had heard about the cat but I wanted to see it for myself, so I clicked on the video and saw a cat barely playing any note, just hitting the keys randomly with its paws and everyone getting so amazed by the scene. That video took over the internet and went viral but when I browsed for animal playing music I found this website that has videos of animals playing any sort of music and also that could beatbox as well!!
So here’s the link.
http://absolutelytrue.com/2010/06/proof-that-animals-love-music
I also found a blog with hundreds of feedbacks of people who wrote about weather animals like music and it was interesting to that all of them said their pets reacted to music. One person wrote that her dog likes death metal and another person said his dog listened to black eyed peas! I don’t think he was telling the truth! ,but it was certain that some animals enjoy music or they relax better if they are exposed to it or maybe some just start dancing like they’re partying similar to this dog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaIS7E_B9wQ
Apart from what has been observed by individuals, a group of student in Queens University in England performed an experiment on the dogs living in shelter. They played classical music for a group of dogs and the dogs in this group became much calmer than the other group without any music. Other experiments were done on cows and researchers had found out that the cows tend to produce milk more than usual.
Some researchers claimed that the reason some animals music (especially classical music) and respond to it is that the sound waves produced by the sound of music penetrates their brain and the brain in response sends out neuron massages to the body to relax and decrease the body tension. Therefore they [the animal] start to ease up and relax more.
All of it could be true and if true it reveals that maybe animals understand music and harmony, or music is able to have some effects on their brain; But sure is a great way to calm them down a bit. For many who have pets there must have been moments when their pet is restless or agitated or it doesn’t sleep so with just playing music they can easily relax their pet.
So if your pet doesn’t sleep play s quiet classical music or a sort of music that might also let them sleep peacefully because sometimes they might start to see nightmares like this dog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2BgjH_CtIA
After all it could be one worthy experiment to see if our pet likes any music, does your pet like music too?

#1 post Introduction

Welcome to Cool Animal Club or CAC!
This is a blog about animals.
Not many of you might be a fan of animals but if you watch AFHV you will change your mind about it a little bit. Animals do so many funny things and what makes those videos funny for us is when they do something you don't expect them to do or something that a human would do. For instance they show a video of a dog jumping up and down and some people laugh and some would say "Aww that's so cute" or "wow that's amazing, I've never seen a cat jumping like that before".
I don't recall a moment in my life when me jumping up and down has ever been funny to anyone and instead I was yelled at or was cursed to sit down and be quiet! Or to give you a better example the act of smiling! Is it something that is interesting when a human does it? or an animal?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTf5-jVvK48&feature=related
Were you not surprised at the look of this smiley dog ? So that is the point that makes them interesting; That despite of what some of us might think of animals as simple creatures but they sometimes do things that makes us notice how much they are smart. A TV documentary like animal-planet takes us through a close observation of the behavior of some animals and if you follow up you will see that it is so incredible how nature has put these instincts inside each animal for it to behave in a certain way in order to survive. Nature has given cats a unique way to defend themselves that is different from the ones of dogs. A cat survives on meat (or in poor countries on garbage) but another animal survives on something else and don't worry we won't be left alone starving, we humans survive on delicious cheeseburgers.!
So nature's eqquiped each one of the animals with a different ways to survive and instincts that make them behave in a unique way. So under this fact will lie many many facts about every single one of these animals, how they live, what they eat, what's funny about them, what are interesting things about them and many other things that are a mystery to us.
So follow "CAC" to read interesting facts about animals and please post your comments and feedback or any interesting links about animals to be shared with all the blog viewers.