There are mirrors on 3 mirrors on a wall in my living room, 6 mirrors on walls in my bathroom, the closet doors in the master bath are full length mirrors and then two of the ceilings have mirrors on them. Can you tell the home owners like mirrors? Lol
When we first moved in Topaz was terrified of the mirrors (really the reflections). Thankfully, she only noticed the full length mirrors in the master bedroom. The first night she ran in and investigated the whole house. The investigation came to a halt in the master bedroom when she came across the mirrors. It took a few days but slowly I convinced her that the image in the mirror was not going to hurt her and she began to go past it without problems.
After that began attempts to play with her reflection, the best ones are always when she is playing with a toy in the mirror and sees the toys reflection. She always tries to trade toys with her reflection. When this does not work out for her she gets annoyed, takes her toy, turns her back on her reflection and plays with the toy. Occasionally. she will glance over her shoulder and give her reflection the stink eye.
She is of the opinion that the mirrors that are hung on the walls in the living room and bathroom are funny windows. They are about the same size and shape of the windows and placed on the wall in about the same position that a window would be placed. At first, anytime a figure appeared in the "window" resulted in alert mode. If the figure is a person and continues to approach then she will run to the door and bark and return to the "window" to guard. We are still working on it, but she has somewhat begun to connect the dots that the images that appear in the odd windows are not something that we need to be protected from. She still watches the images in the mirrors intently and curiously- occasionally she will glance at the person whose image is in the mirror. You can see the wheels turning in her head as she tries to figure out how the odd windows work. This is especially true if a person and her image appear in the mirror together.
My favorite mirror times are probably the few times that she notices the mirrors on the ceilings. This results in a funny dance as she jumps around under the mirror trying to play with the other dog. She will take breaks in which she cocks her head to one side and you can see her trying to figure out how to play with the dog. This will last for about 5 to 10 minutes until she finally gets annoyed and walks away shaking her head. She will proceed to ignore the ceiling dog for a week or so and then it will all be repeated as she makes another attempt to play with the ceiling dog.
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