DogsHowling.
Now that the New York Post has reported it, it's official: Dogs go insane for the Law & Order theme music. Whether it's the wailing of the electric guitar, the clean slurring of the clarinet or the anticipation of yet another murder-to-be-solved, when that theme starts a-playin', those dogs start a-howlin'. While the experts interviewed by the Post don't really know why the dogs howl (one says "When the music hits a certain note, it . . . hits a signal in their auditory nerve and makes them howl," and another says "It's probably due to the staccato sound of the music, which is very jarring"), what everyone can agree on is that it is a fascinating phenomenon, and maybe dogs are more ...