By Samuel Wightwick
A music-loving dog can’t help but “sing” along when its owner plays the piano.
Videos show Ashton Biggs, 21, and her 10-year-old pooch named Goose performing together to hits like Bohemian Rhapsody or Hallelujah.
As Ashton plays the tunes on her piano, Goose, a Treeing Walker Coonhound, sits and howls along.
Ashton says that Goose hadn’t even heard a piano properly until during the pandemic in 2020, but since then their duets have become a regular occurrence.
Ashton, a full time student from Nacogdoches, Texas, USA, said: “One day I had started playing the piano for fun when he happened to be in the house and he approached the piano and started howling with his beautiful bay.
“From then on, it became a routine! Every time I played, he had to sing.”
Ashton has tried a variety of different songs on the piano for Goose.
Drops of Jupiter by Bruno Mars, Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen and House of the Rising Sun by The Animals are just a few of Goose’s favourites.
But nothing beats his reaction to his all time favourite song- Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.
Remarkably, Goose has always been able to show Ashton which songs he preferred by his body language.
She said: “As I learned more songs, he started to show favouritism to some songs over others.
“When I play anything on the piano he will sing, but when I play a song he loves his tail wags more enthusiastically.
“He’ll tilt his head back, close his eyes and his bays are much longer and more drawn out.
“He tends to match the pitch more accurately too.”
When Goose first started joining in with Ashton when she played the piano, she couldn’t believe it.
Goose has always hated loud noises – whether it be fireworks, gun shots or clapping hands.
But when it came to the piano, it was a different story.
Ashton said: “At first I thought it was a fluke, like a one-and-done scenario but it kept happening.
“Eventually, we would wake up and he would run to the piano and start barking and screaming for me to play.
“Once I play, and he gets to sing for a little bit, he would go outside and carry on with the rest of his day!
“Other times it wasn’t possible for me to play enough.”
Being a music major in college has also meant that Ashton has been able to experiment with other instruments.
Goose isn’t a fan of the trumpet or any other brass instruments, but does sing along to the guitar every now and then.
She said: “I’m assuming he doesn’t like these instruments because they are very bright and loud and produce frequencies that hurts his ears.
“He likes the guitar, but he isn’t as enthusiastic about it as the piano.
“Goose is much more of a string-based instruments dog than a wind instruments dog.”
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