What weird habits do your pets have. My cat Inky cannot wait for me

[applegrove]

to set bottles of cold diet coke down so she can lick the moisture off the plastic bottles. I tried to hide them from her when she first developed this habit but it was pointless. She thinks the bottles are presents to her.

When I get home I'll immediately lie down on the bed with her so we can bond. She likes to head butt my body then. Real head butts.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Where do I start? Just about everything cats do is weird.

Pixie drinks out of the bathroom sink with water pouring over her head. Watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WsZZ4qsiog

Jeoffry eats rubber bands when he can find them. I have to hide them from him.

Milo tries to knock over the bed table lamp to get my attention, and he walks around the house at night with a toy in his mouth, uttering odd muffled meows.

[applegrove]

3. LOL! Yup. Inky will not stuff on the ground from any table she is on.

Cats love to see things fall. I once housesat for a cat whose owner would pour a big jar full of buttons at the top of the stairs and the cat would knock all the buttons all the way down the stairs. I guess it reminds them of playing with prey.

[BrendaBrick]

6. Funny video!

[zanana1]

9. I'll bet she wonders why her head gets wet. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. She doesn't really seem to notice.

[geardaddy]

2. Audrey our Chug, likes to hump pillows and kick them.

[surrealAmerican]

4. Speaking of moisture licking ...

When I bring my two dogs inside if they've been in the rain, the older one licks the younger one to dry her off.

[hifiguy]

5. Whenever I scratch my cat Butch

he starts licking the air and then grooming himself. Odd, but he's a cat. :)

[BrendaBrick]

7. I have a drooler...

Female tortie. She does it as I talk and pet her...doesn't do it all the time - but it can start to get messy!

[Throckmorton]

16. My Cat Basket Drools too

The other two cats think shes nuts.

She actually gets in the shower with you, and gets soaking wet much of the time.

[DebJ]

24. My daughter's cat drooled into her ear while she was in bed

one night. She contracted a hideous ear infection.

[DebJ]

25. Dupe. Worn out mouse!

[DebJ]

26. Dupe

[Faygo Kid]

8. Cat Sonny only eats dry food - except for ham.

Ham slice, processed ham, thin sliced sandwich ham - doesn't matter.

Won't eat gourmet cat food, chicken or turkey or the like. Just dry food and ham.

You don't want to be in the room with that obnoxious cat trying to eat any ham. He won't take no for an answer.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. OMG, ham!

Milo would kill for ham. I can't eat a ham sandwich in his presence; he'll snatch it right off my plate and run off with it. If I try to keep it away from him he'll try to climb right up my leg, howling like a banshee.

I don't understand why a cat would be so excited by ham.

[krispos42]

20. Probably the catnip rub...

:D

[rurallib]

12. Our new cat plays fetch like a dog

I have never seen such a thing before.
We got him a couple weeks ago as a rescue and oh, lord what a cutie - what a nosy personality.

[applegrove]

13. I've seen fetch in burmese cats. I had dinner at a house that had two burmese cats. You'd

scrunch up a sheet of paper into a little ball and throw it and they would fetch it...it was so cute!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Just about every cat I've ever known would fetch.

Two of the three who own me now will play fetch with me, although only when they feel like it, not when I do.

[progressoid]

17. One of our kittehs did that too.

She grew out of it, but it was pretty dang weird while she did it.

[suninvited]

28. Every Calico cat I have ever known will fetch

Our first Calico cat lived to be over twenty, and she fetched all the way to the end.

[Brigid]

14. When my black cat Brigid wants a drink,

She jumps into the kitchen sink and meows her head off until I turn on the faucet for her. What can I do? I can't refuse her water! Of course, she knows it. ;)

[progressoid]

18. One of our learned how to turn on the bathroom faucet!

Now we have to keep that door closed or risk a large water bill.

[progressoid]

19. Two litter boxes. Two cats. They poop in one and pee in the other.

Our two cats don't get along but they've managed cooperate in the pooping/peeing department.

[krispos42]

21. Sometimes the Fluff with obsessively lick the back of my hand.

Not too often, but... sandpaper tongue! *wince*

I let her do it as long as I can stand it.

[trueblue2007]

22. i have a black girl cat named INKY!!! she likes to play with straws

[Nevernose]

23. My dogs hate eyeglasses and the Chinese language

One of my dogs freaks out if I take off my glasses; I have to wait until he's asleep before I take them off, otherwise he growls and barks. Although he seems to be okay in the mornings. This is the same dog that has learned to run as fast as caninely possible to the bedroom the moment the living room is turned off. Pavlov was definitely on to something.

The other dog (both are King Charles spaniels) is the smart one. Though not Chinese, my wife is fairly fluent in Chinese (and I like Kung Fu movies), so we occasionally watch Chines-language movies. We have to put the dogs outside first, though, because she will growl and bark the entire time if the people on TV are speaking in Chinese. Of course, this is also the dog that made us change the fung shui of the home: she was prone to moving furniture in order to create ladders enabling her to get on the kitchen counter. Tool use, essentially.

Yet, despite all of this, we're fairly certain that it's the chihuahua who's the smart one.

[6000eliot]

27. I had a cat that wanted to eat whatever I was eating.

Carrots, potato chips. He even chewed an ice cube because I was chewing one.

[suninvited]

29. My dog will only chew her rubber toy against my leg

she never plays with it or chews it unless I am at the computer, but the second I sit down she grabs her rubber toy comes and props it against the side of my thigh and starts chewing it.

[mikeytherat]

30. Where to begin...

Weird Harold: The tunneler. Will make anything into a tunnel - linens, bags, clothes, rugs - we've got a 10' x 20' Persian rug that usually has a speed-bump in the middle of it. He also forgets his tail is part of him, and he attacks it (the somersaults are a riot).

Charlie: Likes to sleep with his head wedged against the stair banisters.

Crosby: Loves anything with vanilla in it - and I mean LOVES. You cannot enter the house with vanilla ice cream without him knowing it.

mikey_the_rat