I wish it could be Christmas every day

This past Christmas, the New Zealand pop singles chart was topped by a song that was inaudible to the human ear.

The SPCA Christmas single, A Very Silent Night has been designed especially to get tails wagging and puppies dancing. It’s a song solely for dogs – recorded at the highest frequencies possible for compact disc recordings, which means we can’t hear it…but our canine friends certainly can!

We gave our SPCA dogs a sneak preview of the track a few weeks back and there was plenty of singing, dancing and pricked ears to confirm that A Very Silent Night was a hit with most of the pooches.

When the video was loaded into YouTube, the Auckland SPCA noticed that the compression that happened when the video was uploaded caused the sound file to create audible glitches, so they reloaded the video to the song that humans can't hear with no sound file whatsoever and a very obvious notation as to what was going on.

For insight into the mass psychology of the internet, I invite you to click on the video and follow it back to see the comments.