Silent Song Reaches No. 1 for Pooches

Posted on Feb 20th 2008 12:00PM by David Sprague
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The folks at New Zealand's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are looking to export what's either the most clever way of entertaining our canine brethren or the biggest set of the emperor's new clothes since that last Rilo Kiley album.

The pooch lovers earned a hard-fought No. 1 single with 'A Very Silent Night' -- a "song" that's entirely inaudible to the human ear, but utterly irresistible to spaniels and terriers and hounds around the globe. Much like their two-legged companions, dogs react to the tune in varied ways, some listening intently and some applying decidedly punk-rock aggression. "The most violent one was a dog that physically attacked the radio when it was played and went quite berserk and totally destroyed it," says Bob Kerridge, the SPCA's chief executive. The latter response sounds a lot like the universal one to Mariah Carey's 'Fantasy,' the song previously thought to be the musical equivalent of a dog-whistle.

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