What kind of strange things do your pets do?

[The_Gopher]

our cat, Mister Tibbs, will sit in front of the tv and watch for hours (we got that kitty DVD for him, and he's been hooked ever since). we leave the tv on when we leave for work. he's particularly fond of "That's My Baby" on animal planet, and he likes the pet rescue show, "for it's emotional message," he says.

and he's a water-freak. always seeking out more water sources. he just knocked over a cup of water that i left unattended on the table. we even got him a kitty water fountain.

and every time that i sit down at the computer, he has to get in my lap, even if it's just for 10 seconds.

[Catshrink]

1. How about steal my pillow at 3am?

Damn cat woke me up last night at 3. He wanted to cuddle. I had to get up for a minute and when I returned to bed, he was sprawled out on my pillow. He's a good 25# so it was not easy to move him to one side. Then he starts purring and wants to wash my hair. He's a total love bug... but damn, 3am is just wrong.

Here he is in all his fatness:

[The_Gopher]

2. does he walk over your head in the morning?

to let you know it's time to get up?

and there's nothing like waking up with a cat staring you right in the face less than an inch away.

[Catshrink]

5. He doesn't, but another one will bat at my head

especially on weekends when the alarm doesn't go off. She's such a creature of habit that she freaks out. She's pretty high strung, too. I have 5 and each of them is so different than the others. I can't see being without any of them.

This is the one that bats at my head. Ryno is the family boss -- she is named after Ryne Sandberg.

[scucci]

18. Mine does but it's even worse than that

He steps on my long hair and screams in my nose/mouth area. I wish they made kitty breath mints. P-yu-doggies!
Yes, he's had his teeth cleaned by the vet but his breath still smells like cat ass. I wonder why? :dunce:

[Syrinx]

3. my dog watches tv too!

And whenever he sees an animal on the screen he will run toward the tv and bark like crazy. I'm worried that one day he might sail right through the screen.

The first time he ever stormed the tv was when Dubya was on there talking. He would have eaten that guy alive if he could have gotten to him. And, no, I'm not making this up.

[susanna]

12. Mine has 'preferences' in TV viewing...

She likes ice skating and hockey. She's absolutely enrapt with moving figures over a white background!

[Catshrink]

14. One of mine likes football...

and Ricky almost knocked the tv over when a nature thing was on with birdies chirping. I need to get him that video...

Here's Ricky:

[susanna]

20. Hail Ricky!

What a good-looking cat. Looks like he's up to somethin' though... (LOL)

[Catshrink]

41. He's the cat from hell

He's always plotting something or lying in wait to attack one of the other cats. Or me. But he can also be a cuddler. He has the most beautiful eyes -- a gorgeous amber.

[trof]

35. Same here.

Our last German Shepherd, Gypsy, would lie on our bed and watch TV for hours. I'd stand off to one side of the set and watch her. Her eye movements were following the action. There was just no doubt that she was watching.

She's also the only dog I have ever seen who would look in the direction you pointed. If you point your finger at something and say "Look", every other dog looks at your finger. Gypsy would look at what you were pointing at.
Amazing.

[aquaman]

4. Everytime I tell my dog "NO."

He smells his butt.

[Catshrink]

6. You owe me a new keyboard for that one!

Damn!

[Blue_Chill]

27. HAHAHAHA!

Damn that was a funny. :D

[BeHereNow]

32. Flowers, my cat brings me flowers!

No kidding- he leaves flowers from the neighbors
flowering bushes on my doorstep.
Sweet kitty, eh?

BHN

[Catshrink]

42. Flowers? How sweet. Mine brings dead geckos.

Cute little dead geckos, usually without their tails.

[liberalmuse]

7. Adorable!

When I go to take a shower at night, as soon as I close the bathroom door, my dog will roll in my bed. She's done this for years. Then she'll go into the livingroom and roll in the couch. Sometimes I will open the door and 'catch' her. She'll then run like a maniac through the house several times and jump on the couch, bumping it against the wall. She also has her own rug which she rolls in every day, and will take her first dog treat of the day over to it so she can roll in that as well.

[BlueJazz]

8. My Rabbit loves to jump up

on the rocking chair in the den.
He'll rock back and forth for about 30 seconds...hop down, hop back on the chair, hop down etc, etc... one strange lovable Bunny.

[HawkerHurricane]

9. My two dogs...

Tux (the male) will corner a skunk in the back yard and let himself get sprayed repeatedly, barking away at it: not smart enough to leave it alone, not aggressive enough to actually attack it...
Meanwhile, Princess will go to the back door the moment the skunk shows up and whine to be let in: she doesn't want to be near Tux after he's been with the skunk.

[susanna]

19. If you don't mind me saying (and I hope you don't)...

Princess is the brains in that duo...but Tux should be given some sorta medal for fighting the good fight. :-)

[Blue_Chill]

25. Yes I think Tux should be rewarded for his bravery

I would be out in a heart beat if I saw a pissed off skunk.

[HawkerHurricane]

37. Fools and Bravery

I just think he's too stupid to make the connection between the skunk and the spray. He could kill the skunk (he's big enough), or he could give it a retreat route, but NOOOO, he'll corner it and let it spray him again and again until someone comes out and phisically pulls him away from the skunk (and holds him away) until the skunk can flee...

Having gotten up at 2am more than once to hold a smelly stupid dog so a skunk can leave, I have lost all sympathy for him.

[Catshrink]

43. How do you get rid of the skunk smell?

Princess definitely has the brains in that duo!

[susanna]

10. My dog...

Likes to act like she's a cat. She eats her food one kibble at a time--as she feels like it--and adores milk and fish of any kind (stereotype heh). She also grooms her paws obsessively (her paws are white, in contrast to her flaming red fur), and then rubs the clean paws all over her head. This crazed hybrid also generates hairballs, of all darn things.

She's an Akita/some-sort-of-American-hunting-dog mix (I'm not sure that is remotely normal, LOL). She's very finicky about a lot of things, and very regal looking for a dog. It's actually weird, to me at least. She's the darndest 'dawg' I've ever met...but I love her anyway. :-)

[Dirty Hippie]

29. My doggie

eats his food one piece at a time a well. He will get one piece and bring it itno another room to eat it and then go back for another etc. He stays so trim! I always thought this would be a good idea for a diet plan.

[geniph]

11. I'm not sure there's anything my three do that ISN'T strange

but a recent development in feline peculiarity is Yankee getting stuck in the bedroom wastebasket. She'll be sleeping peacefully on the bedroom windowsill, then suddenly, with a huge racket, rolls off and falls into the bedroom trashcan. LARGE Maine Coon, small wastebasket - she's gotten stuck now twice. The last time, she got stuck in there butt-down, with her head sticking out, and just sat there looking pissed off until I controlled my near-hysterical laughter long enough to pick the can up and tip it over so she could wriggle her fat ass out. Then I got the cold shoulder (literally, she turns her back and won't respond to me) for hours because she was humiliated and disgruntled about being laughed at. Whatta dork!

They'll have some new oddity to annoy me with within an hour, I'm sure. They're very strange. One of the boycats (all three are Maine Coons) likes to carry his toy rat around in the halls in the middle of the night, howling at the top of his lungs. If you come out and look at him, he gets all abashed and puts the thing down and squeaks at you. Normally, he speaks in the tiniest little kitten-squeaks (absurd enough from a huge male), but when he's carrying his rat, he's so loud we refer to it as the Fire alarm (his name is Friendly Fire).

[Johnyawl]

21. And you didn't even mention...

...that Fire's gay. Silly cat thinks he's a hairdresser; he's forever trying to "groom" your bangs, or my beard. And that spell of pillow-humping that he went through was disgusting


Years ago some friends of mine had a cat and dog that were cross-species homosexuals. the dog was a fixed male Poodle; the cat a fixed male Siamese. They loved each other, and were inseparable. The poodle was forever mounting the siamese, and the cat would "assume the position", ass in the air, tail off to one side while the dog humped him. My friends were so embarrassed (they never failed to do this when guests were there) that they gave the cat to her sister, to seperate them. Those two animals went into immediate decline, pining away, moping around the house, yowling pathetically. It drove everyone crazy, plus it was heart wrenching to watch. They finally brought the cat back. Those animals were ecstatic! They lived happily ever after, humping away to the amusement of everyone.

[Alenne]

13. My dog is my personal pervert and stalker

He steals my underwear and he loves to lick toes.

I can't move without him following me. If I go to the bathroom he whines and scratches the door until I open it.

He doesn't do any of these things to my husband or kids. Only me.

[NJCher]

17. toe-biter

And what do you do about those skunk encounters, HH?

Well, I have a cat who is a toe biter. It's actually part of a larger overall pattern of behavior, however. She knows exactly what annoys me and then proceeds to do whatever it is that annoys me. Very in-your-face.

In the morning she will hop up on the bed and hold either mine or my husband's foot with her claws just ba-arrr-ely out. Just enough to let you know she could hurt you. Then she will bite your toe--just enough to let you know you could be toeless. All the while she looks you straight in the eye like, "What are you going to do about it?"

In the garden she will pretend to eat my favorite flowers. Same look.

Scratching the couch. Same look.

etc.


Cher

[MisterP]

15. our parakeets show gay tendencies...

but no witnessed "acts"

[TrogL]

22. I've got gay parakeets

and straight ones in the same cage. Makes for interesting fights.

[HawkerHurricane]

38. I had a parakeet once

He would perch on the living room table, and if you walked by barefoot, he would jump off the table, run across the floor, jump on your foot and bite your toes.
I think he enjoyed being kicked across the room.

[TrogL]

16. Put cloth things in her water dish

socks, washcloths, underwear, the latest was her toy mouse

[Samuraimad]

23. My cat is a masochist.

She loves to be smacked with newspapers or other similar objects.
She'll be sitting around doing nothing and if I rollup a paper to swat a fly or whatever she'll run to my feet, roll around till I swat her! Then she'll allow me to smack her with it for a good 20 minutes till she walks off satisified. Crazy cat.

[caledesi]

24. One of my cats, Zack loves to...

jump in the bathtub and wait till I turn on the spigot a little, and he takes the water from the spout onto his paws and licks it. He's a very strange cat!

[gardenista]

30. We had a water cat!

She did much the same thing, but she also tried to figure out where the water was coming from and where it was going. She was fascinated any time we turned on a spigot of any kind. The would jump up onto the bathroom sink and look from the spot to the drain, and back up again, over and over, sometimes batting very lightly at the water, but not for drinking. This was part of the investigation.

Finally, her little brain would get tired, her head would begin to shake as if it were going to explode, and she'd stop trying to be the physicist she must have been in a former life and go outside. She must have been a very very good physicist, because the was a very cool cat, and she has lived a great life, with many many human admirers. She's still at it, but, man, I hope I get to meet her in the next life, too. We were taking care of her for a few years while some friends of ours were out of the country. Man, I love that cat!

[HEyHEY]

26. My sister's dog

Drops her ball in my parents pool, and makes US retreive it....over and over and over..even though she can and does swim and is allowed in the pool

[meow2u3]

49. This is the freakin' limit!

I've heard of role reversal, but this is ridiculous!!!!

:D :D :D

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

[Blue_Chill]

28. My put both of his ears in his mouth

and runs around like a speed freak if you try to tell him not to.

[gardenista]

31. Our neighbors have a cat that thinks leaves are money.

She "pays" for her food with leaves, bringing them in one at a time, and dropping them into her dish if it's empty. If it's not empty, she drops the leaves next to the dish. She will also personally deliver a leaf to you if she thinks you are particularly in need of one, or if you are deemed worthy for some other reason. Once, she brought a leaf all the way over to the studio I had in the back yard, I think it was to thank me for letting her sleep in front of the fan on a hot day. She's almost as smart as the physicist water cat, but she has a sadistic streak, which I won't go into here... Just not quite as evolved as the water cat.

[FloridaJudy]

33. Devious feline

I couldn't figure out how my dog kept getting loose; she's not supposed to go outside without a leash, since I live near a busy street, and have some decidedly canine-unfriendly neighbors. I'd go to the bathroom, come out: dog's outside, door is firmly shut. Huh?

Then one day I witnessed what was happening. I walked into my Florida room in time to spy the *cat* using her claws to unlatch the screen door, push it open, wait for the dog to run out, and then pull it closed again. I could imagine her doing her best Ahh-nold impression "Hasta la vista, baby!" and gloating "Good. Maybe *this* time the idiot will get run over or caught by the dog-catcher".

I replaced that latch.

[BritishHuman]

34. She likes to lie on my mouse hand

While I'm on the computer. Makes it rather difficult to do anything... And after a bit it starts to go numb.

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. Our cat and dog, Merlin and Jessie, wait for Momma to leave the bed

every morning and then they both get in and snuggle with Daddy. Heads on pillows even. Merlin (cat) will lay in the sink when it's dripping and let it drip on his belly. I think he is cooling off.

Whenever I let her out, Jessie will run to the same corner of the back fence and pounce on it, barking viciously (she's not an attack Sheltie) to protect us from some unseen evil force.

Ah, I love my furbabies.

[Catshrink]

44. Closing in on 1000, MrsGrumpy!

Your critters sound so sweet. Cats and water, how strange is that. My sister's cat likes the get in the tub and we always thought that was very strange.

[Cheswick2.0]

39. my cat look at everything upside down

there is nothing he can look at right side up that he doesn't prefer looking at upside down.

[dani]

40. my cat

will leap from the counter top into my arms (usually when she wants to be fed). I think this is remarkable for any cat, but my cat happens to be one of those really nervous kitties (who won't even sit in a person's lap) so I'm amazed she'll perform such a daring feat.

[nuxvomica]

45. I rarely drink soda and last night I learned why

I had a tumbler of Coke sitting on the table in front of me while I was watching TV. My cat Amos came along and started "stalking" it. He approached stealthily from several different directions and finally climbed onto the table and gingerly lowered his right paw into the glass. I brushed him away but he kept returning and trying to dip his paw each time. Finally, when the glass was empty, he stuck his paw in and knocked it onto the carpet. He stared at it, looking for signs of life.
I think the sound of the effervescence attracts him.

[Nikia]

46. My strange dog

He used to get literally pissed off when we had sex and we always had to clean up after him. Then he discovered that he too could have partners. He humps stuffed animals all the time now.

[trof]

47. Skydiving?

We left 6 month old, not quite housebroken, Gypsy, a German Shepherd, on a second floor screened in porch during a trip to the grocery. Screened ABOVE a 40" high wall. A straight down 12' drop to the ground.
When we returned there was a Gypsy-sized hole in the screen and no puppy. There was a chair next to the wall that she must have used. Started calling her and here she came, out of the woods. Rushed her to the vet. Not a broken bone, not a sprain, not a scratch, no nothing.
Lucky dog, but maybe not so smart.
;-)

[ott]

48. My bird wedges her head in my mouth....

...if I'm eating cashews. She'll perch on my bottom lip and pick my teeth clean if I let her.