He is also extremely nosey...to the point that if he sees someone outside, he will stop in his tracks & watch to see what they are doing. Somedays I actually have to pick him up & carry him inside because he just wants to sit there & watch people. lol
Also this morning I noticed 3 funny looking pebbles in the kitchen. It turns out he dug through his dog food & removed all the odd shaped ones from his dog bowl....it always cracks me up when he does this.
Anyone else have pets that do funny things?
(PS: I have a picture of my little guy in my profile...not that I am a proud parent or anything) lol
Another time I was on the floor playing checkers with a friend. My bird ran on to the board, grabbed a playing piece, and ran away with it laughing his little off.
My one kitty loves to randomly plop on the floor in hopes that you'll come over and rub his belly with your foot.
My other kitty has a habit of chasing her own tail. xD
To get my cat, Bubba, to be quiet at night, I used a technique from an animal behaviorist.
First I'd dim the lights, then get him to play with a toy on a string. I'd make him stalk and chase it, catch it and let it get away. Finally, after 15 minutes, I'd let him catch it and "kill" it. Then I fed him. This is supposed to mimic the cat's nocturnal hunting habits. It did work and he is very good at night now.
If I let it get too late, he finds a toy and wildly chases it all over, then grabs it and rips its "guts" out with his hind feet. Then he goes to his dish and cries until I feed him.
Who is well trained here?
My little guy actually played a trick on my 2 months ago that had me crying my eyes out. I woke up & went to the kitchen...where he always follows me, except he was no where to be found. I found him laying on a pile of clothes & picked him up, kissed him & put him on the bed with me. He wouldn't open his eyes the entire time...I got his favorite toy & squeaked it & he did nothing. By this point I am freaking out because he has never not responded to his toy. I got his favorite treats out...still nothing. He wouldn't even open his eyes. He was breathing but by this time I am crying & freaking out because he never acts this way.
I called my boyfriend in tears & let him know to meet me at the animal emergency clinic. As I am crying histerically & getting his leash ready just in case...the little brat jumps right up & starts begging to go on a walk. I still don't know if he was just really tired that morning or what...but his little act left me with puffy eyes for the entire day.
My cocker spaniel will roll around in my towels immediately after I take a shower... he will also roll around on my hair (after a shower) and also on any of my clothes that smell really good...
My pug will run around with her pet dolphin, will shake it, drop it, bark at it, grab it again, shake it some more and then... starts humping it.
oo, i love pet stories. unfortunately my love bird died a few years ago, but she lived a longer life than most love birds. think it was 12-15 years. i actually can't remember when i got her as i've had 3 others. anyway here are some the funny things she did, you'll have to excuse if its a bit long:
when we brought her outside she would usually stay in her cage even if we had the cage door open ( i would bring her out to chew on some bricks). only once she flew the coup & that was because my step-dad went into the garage. i was living in ireland (for the 1st time) so i was not there. but my mother went around the neighbourhood, ringing her bell, yelling out her name. finally my mother hears her tweet tweet & she's up a tree maybe 6 stories high. so she (my bird) instead of flying down has to crawl down all the way, took her 20 minutes according to my mom.
she used to go apes/bananas for bathing. anytime she heard water she would squawk & sqauwk. a couple of times she flew in on me having a shower.
she would lay eggs like crazy, one year i counted 22, most of my other lovebirds only would have about 12 or so. before she was ovulating she would do this crazy dance that was oddly in time with any drum n bass music. she would also do this dance to my feet. & like some of my other lovebirds she would chew up any paper, including some of my books to make her nest.
she was gentle & mean. i think her fiestiness made her live longer than most, which a good lesson for me. anyway she would preen my eye lashes & never bit my eye but a couple of times she bit my lip making it swell. once she got a hold of my aunts arm & just wouldn't let go no matter how hard my aunt shaked.
anytime you were on the computer typing away she had to come on the hand you were trying to use to nibble away. i used to put bird food in my hair & she and another bird of mine would eat the food out of it (separate of course, they'd kill each other, love birds are very territorial). altho i dont know if that last one is more a weird pet owner thing.
Love all the stories....
I have actually a lot of animals... 6 dogs (not tenically all mine but i fee them), mini horse, goat, 4 chinchillas. lol
My one dog a great dane is the biggest dog, but you would think he is the smallest. The other dogs will chase him around the yard and he will come and hide behind me. There has been many times he has ran right into me knocking me to the ground lol. And when I am on the front porch he will stand up next to me and lean on me. Just a big old baby!!! He also will come and try and sit in my chair with me... this big dog climbing up on my lab basically.. but gotta love him.....
But I am an animal lover, a stray comes by and yep gotta feed them. Thats why I have so many right now!! And everytime I go anywhere they all will be right behind me (I live in the country) I went on a ride on the 4-wheeler only to turn around because I had 6 dogs all wanting to come.. I will usually hook a trailer up to the 4-wheeler so they can ride and I dont have to worry about them running behind me!!
Lol but yeah I have a ton of animal storys!!
Thos just happened earlier this week. My boyfriend just got a weimaraner a few months ago named Jackson. The dog was neglected by the previous own. Who said he was a bad dog and left him in his crate 22 or of 24 hours a day. The 2 hours he was out he spent alone in the back yard.
Weimaraners a people dogs. This guy needs his people and we're glad we found him. However, he's a little nuts. He get seperation anxiety. He waits outside the bathroom door for you. He follows us everywhere and must be in the same room. He thinks my boyfriend is a god. (I think he's preety great too, but thats beside the point.) Jackson's a big doggy but he tries to curl up in my boyfriends lap whenever possible. He loves people and when we have friends over for a bonfire, we put out an extra lawn chair for Jackson.
He has this problem though. If left alone even for a moment he gets nervous and eats things.
Remote control, cell phone, electric razor, throw pillows, my travel coffee mug w/ coffee inside, pork chops thawing in the sink, a telephone book from on top the refigerator, a bag of flour that he spread all over the house.
Most recently, my boyfriend got up in the night to go to the toilet. The dog got into the bed and consumed sevral comdoms. Opened the package removed comdoms and swallowed them. Normally he just chews things to bits and we find the pieces. He ate these. Ate four in about 10 minutes. I have no idea how he did this so fast or why they were so desirable. they must have been delious or something.
Not to worry. The vet said Jackson would be fine. That the condoms will pass. And indeed my boyfriend has gone through his stool to find condom intact. These are the things my man will do for the ones he loves.
Anyway, we're increasing dog security at the house. We leave nothing out. Take no chances. You never know what Jackson might find tasty.
My bunnies both love when I do yoga at home because they wait until I'm in downdog and then stretch out across my mat. I start laughing and trying to shoo them away without falling over. They'll also climb on to my chest during corpse pose.
Besides that, they take my place on the couch as soon as I get up, lick all my stuff, nudge me with their noses until I do what they want, and try to chew my fingers off if I've been cutting strawberries. Weirdos.
kat, you should read marley & me, such a cute (but then sad at the end) story. skinny, its good to see that bunnies appreciate the wisdom in yoga.
My cat Dewey has to be one of the MOST curious kitties alive! She is into EVERYTHING..ALL THE TIME!
You know those little heater vents in the floor? Yeah...she always pulls them out of the floor and then leaves them sitting out. My dad gets mad and is always talking about how someone is going to hurt themselves on it, and my stepmom says, "AWW how adorable! She's just so curious! It's cute! =D"
That was the case until my stepmom stubbed her toe on a heater vent sticking out of the ground..then it turned into "D*** it, Dewey! Will you stop that?!?!?!"
She also refuses to drink water out of her dish..but she can't resist a glass of water. When she THINKS no one is looking she gets next to a glass, sticks her head in, gets a couple laps, and then knocks it over. Needless to say we have switched to plastic cups!
When some of my other cats (Peaches, Patches, and Tiger) were kittens, we had a crack under the bathroom door. They used to squeeze under it and get on the side of the bath tub while I was showering...back then they actually enjoyed water (NOT SO when I tried giving them a bath a few years later)
Another cat, Stubby, is almost pathetic! When she wants to be pet she meows and meows and constantly rolls over. Like, she will stick her nose to the ground and roll over onto her right side, stand up immediately, and do a nose dive to her left side. She seriously does that fast and often and it almost makes you dizzy watching!
I have more pets, and cute stories, but I'll stop =)
Haha =P
Adorable. Except for the time I was very sick after a tonsillectomy went bad, could barely sit up, and wanted nothing more than to sip at water all the time. And every time I came halfway out of consciousness, I didn't have a freakin' straw.
My dog that was adopted from a research lab doesn't make noises, no matter how excited/hyper/angry she gets. She's also very bad at navigating stairways, and has to run without stopping either up or down, just crashing into whatever's in her way. If she loses momentum, she slides back down to the bottom.
My pomeranian is shameless about asking for belly rubs, and if you stop petting her, even for a second, she stand on her back legs and paw at the air. She will do this for hours. She also once managed to eat an entire pack of cigarettes one of the cats had knocked on the floor.
And another one of my cats fetches twist-ties. They're his favorite toy.
:sigh: I've got so many more stories, too.
I caught our kitty Ripley sleeping the bathroom sink downstairs the other day... what a nutter! She was out cold.
She also squeeks at us right before she goes to sleep. She won't let my bf shower with the door closed (I think she's got him pegged as a softy!) She also likes to sit on his shoulder while he's trying to do his class assignments.
She doesn't like moist cat food at all... only kibbles for her... so strange. She also has to sniff everything we eat, she won't try to eat it off the plate, but she has to snif everything before we can eat it (btw the smell of carrots terrifies her!)
The funniest though is when she climbs up the side of her kitty condo with a toys in her mouth and flails around like King Kong!
I have a kitty that plays fetch. Yes, just like a dog. She has a little plastic ball that jingles and she will bring it to us, drop it at our feet and cry until we throw it for her. She chases it down, picks it up in her mouth and brings it back (sometimes stopping to dip it in her water bowl) and drops it at our feet and starts crying again.
I have a cat. She is about 21 years old now. She is bad tempered, deaf, and arthritic. My husband's brother left his huge german shepard with his parents while he went overseas. His parents have a small condo, and the dog was driving them nuts. So we offered to take care of the dog.
Naturally, we were worried about the dog hurting the cat. She couldn't run from him. We have since learned that is not a problem. Quite the opposite. The dog is terrified of her. She will stalk him and chase him around the house. She steals his food. Last night we found her sleeping in his crate while he slept on the patio. There is nothing funnier than seeing an 80 pound dog cowering away from an 8 pound cat. We are now having to save the dog from the vicious, attack kitty.
kat: my old dog Gollum used to eat my old flatmate's used condoms, which she kindly left on the floor of her bedroom for him to get.
y0da:
When you get home she has to have a gift for you, or she becomes frantic. Even if you have to go get a gift for her to give you, there must be some offering or she gets upset to the point where she is inconsolable.
If you're rubbing her belly and stop, she reaches out with one paw and drags your hand back to her stomach. Strangely, my friend has her 1/2 sister and she does the exact same thing, even though neither of them did it when they knew each other and my fat bastard doesn't do it, nor any other chihuahua I know.
She doesn't get breakfast every morning, only on the mornings she is hungry. She lets you know she is hungry by sitting on the bathroom mat when you're going to the toilet and doing her "gam stretches". If you ignore her then she follows you around the house waving her front paws in the air, pleading her case.
If you're eating something she is particularly intrigued by, she will sit on the back of the couch and talk to you about how you should share. It's a series of demanding yips and whines, waving of one front paw, scratching with said paw and basically assailing you with a litany of abuse to express her disgust at your refusal to provide for her needs.
Vader:
Has a neck fetish. He desperately loves to have his neck blown on and will spend hours getting you to do it if you let him. He and my husband have a routine when he licks my husband's face bristles for a few minutes, then puts his fat neck out to be blown on. This goes back and forth every night for ages (far longer than I would put up with) when we go to bed.
He always has to thank someone for his dinner. He gets up on your lap and leans against you for about 10 minutes after he finishes his dinner to express his gratitude. It's the only time he'll sit on your lap unless you're in the car.
He has a laundry fetish (the dog needs a therapist, I swear). He knows when the drier is about to go off and pesters you until you get up to check it. As soon as you stand up, he races off to the laundry barking (if you hold him away he howls) then stands on the bed waiting for you to throw the warm laundry at him - which he proceeds to kill.
He's a chew genius, and I have a thousand stories of his escapades when trying to acquire them.
Both of them sleep in pillows (like in between the pillow and the slip), both run and jump on the window sill like a cat when you call "sun's up" and both are as mad as bricks. I could not love them more.
clharr-
Thats an old kitty cat. mine is 10. I got her when I was 19 and I didn't realize cats live a really long time. I just though, "OH look at the little kitty." and she's always had a lot attitude. My friends have all warned each other about her so that when I ask someone to house sit they're all afraid of the cat. She will jump up on the couch next to the stranger and hiss and bat at them. She's also tried to bite someone as they we're trying to put the food in her bowl. And she sent the vet tech to the emergency room for a cat bite while they were trying to draw her blood. Its funny because when I'm home with her she's snuggly and nice most of the time. She doesn't seem to like anyone but me. She's been some much stuff with me. College, grad school several boyfriends, and apartments. I can't imagine doing any of it without her. We have an understanding.
Ponda-
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
My old teacup poodle Rowdy loved my cockatiel Dukie. Sometimes we'd let Dukie out on the floor so she could wander around as she pleased. Once everyone had gotten tired of throwing the ball for the millionth time for Rowdy, he would turn to Dukie, look at her pleadingly, and roll the ball to her (which was as big as her whole body) with his nose. She'd flip out, hiss at him, and waddle away, and he would be thrilled and roll it to her again. He never really got that she wasn't going to fetch it :)
Also, my cat has more than once gotten her entire face stuck in a water glass (despite the fact that she consistently has a full, clean water dish... sigh). She's like a beverage ninja - whenever you're not looking she'll inhale your drink until there's nothing left. I'm kind of worried about the day that she gets really stuck and we can't get her head back out. I'm guessing it wouldn't be the strangest case the vet had ever seen, but still...
Oh those crazy cats!
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