3 stimulating Netflix reveals I placed on for my pets after I go away the home

I by no means like to depart my household’s two cats, Benni and Comet, residence alone for too lengthy. For one, Comet is a younger cat who likes to stalk the senior Benni just like the Predator, and two, it simply does not really feel nice leaving my fur infants in a silent home.

So earlier than I’m going, I’ve gotten into the behavior of placing one thing on the TV, and never simply one thing as background noise. Modern TVs may help with this, as canine and cats course of movement quicker than we do, so whereas the previous 60Hz tube TVs regarded like strobing slideshows to them, at the moment’s 120Hz panels look extra pure. Plus, since they each see a restricted colour vary—principally blues, yellows, and grays—and their ears perk up at animal sounds, there’s a terrific collection of Netflix reveals accessible for U.S. clients that pets (effectively, mine anyway) appear to get pleasure from. There’s even a complete style devoted to them: Stuff for Dogs to Watch—Squirrel!

Below, although, are three of my pets’ favorites, with my prime choose being a viral phenom that my cats stare at.

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Penguin Town

Patton Oswalt narrates this sequence that retains pets glued to the display screen

It’s at all times humorous when animals show traits which are uniquely human, and it is even funnier when there’s knowledgeable narration from a comic (Patton Oswalt) who is aware of simply how to attract that humor out. Penguin Town is a 2021 docuseries on Netflix that I’ve watched all over myself—with and with out my cats. It follows a neighborhood of endangered African penguins who’ve taken over Simon’s Town, a seaside city south of Cape Town, South Africa.

Making themselves at residence among the many city’s residents, the penguin households nest below wheelbarrows, in culverts, and in courtyards, and every is cleverly named for the spot it occupies. Oswalt treats each as its personal sitcom household. Not that your pets will comply with all of the drama and comedy, however the sequence tracks the Bougainvilleas, an older couple of “soul mates”; the Culverts, a pair of newlyweds making ready to start out a household; the Wheelbarrows, mother and father elevating their 4 chicks; and extra.

For pets, the present’s eight half-hour episodes are stuffed with waddling, squawking, and splashing, set in opposition to a backdrop of vivid ocean blues and different vibrancies that preserve eyeballs on the display screen.

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Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough

Nature’s soundtrack, tuned for higher ears than yours

When I put this unimaginable three-part Netflix docuseries on for my pets for the primary time, I’d by no means seen so many perky ears in my life. And whereas the 2024 sequence, which was a joint U.Okay. and Canadian manufacturing, is visually beautiful, too, it is the audio of Secret World of Sound that’s as an alternative entrance and heart right here.

Using ultra-sensitive microphones and laser vibrometers to seize sounds and noises that us people hardly ever discover (and even know existed within the first place), Secret World of Sound explores how creatures throughout the pure globe—massive and small—use sound. “Hunters and Hunted,” for instance, follows Manitoba’s nice gray owls as they hear and hunt for the small voles dwelling beneath the snow, and the way the latter use their ears to keep away from being eaten. That identical episode will get insanely near England’s buff-tailed bumblebees who use a particular tone (D, truly) after they vibrate their our bodies to dislodge hidden pollen from a nightshade flower.

The nature show’s episodes are stuffed with roaring lions, bugling elk, singing gibbons, and dolphins utilizing sonar clicks to find fish hiding on the backside of the ocean. Dogs and cats can hear far more than we do, and this soundtrack (accompanied by David Attenborough’s silky narration) is alive with animal noises that give them lots to analyze.

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Sealook

The goofy seals behind social media’s pet-watching craze

My prime choose comes from Korea’s Million Volt and The Pinkfong Company, and in case you are not acquainted with the latter (or do not have children), they’re the oldsters behind Baby Shark, so that they know a bit one thing about drawing consideration, even out of your pets. Sealook made its debut on YouTube in 2022, but it surely was its arrival on Netflix US in October of 2025 that paved the way in which for its viral explosion amongst pet homeowners.

Not initially developed for pets, homeowners (myself included) seen that the essential colours—largely blues, yellows, and grays—of the present’s chubby seals, fish, landscapes, and ocean surroundings are within the excellent spectrum for what canine and cats see finest. There’s no dialogue (solely seal “arfs” and varied different quirky noises), and the episodes are strung along with lovable and hilarious bite-sized shorts that additionally, you will undoubtedly end up watching, too.

With 10 episodes accessible to stream, every roughly 13 to 14 minutes lengthy, your pets will get pleasure from Seal 001’s tongue-clicking behavior, a beatboxing Seal 013, and Seals 002 and 010 who strive all the things they’ll to start out a dance social gathering. Seriously, your pets may prefer it, but when not, you are going to binge the entire sequence both manner.

Give your pets one thing price watching

Leaving the home? Put on the sure-fire Sealook first, preserve Penguin Town and Secret World of Sound queued up, and your pets could have firm till you get residence. But who is aware of, perhaps they’re extra into Netflix comedies or movies instead—now we have roundups of these on How-To Geek as effectively.

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