strange habits your pets have?

[Papa Deuce]

My dogs have a feeding and drinking station... it holds 2 bowls for food and 2 for water. They will both eat from their own bowls but they will only drink from the same bowl. It is so ingrained in them that if I put one bowl in the dishwasher - the one they drink from - they won't drink at all from the other bowl, even if I didn't give them their drinking dish back for hours. And the bowls are identical.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Not really, but our cocker spaniel sleeps on his back, spread eagle, most nights.

Our previous cocker would chase flashlight beams -- not the brightest, was he.

 

[minkydog]

Minky barks like a rabid Saint Bernard when somebody comes to the door, but then it's like he "hears" himself barking and he'll break away. Then he'll come back with his pink bunny in his mouth, still barking, but it's more like "muff, muff." He stifles himself.

 

[mishasmom]

My dogs do the same thing! They both have raised feeders with 2 bowls. They will only drink water out of the male's water bowl. They won't drink out of the female's bowl even if I fill the female's water bowl and leave the male's empty. And God forbid you should move the bowls to a new place - like putting the water bowl outside. They just come in and stand over where the bowl should be and look at you. So, with a 140 plus pound male and a 70 pound female living in AZ and only drinking out of one bowl we are CONSTANTLY filling that darn thing up!!

 

[Lachesis00]

My cat *has* to go in the bathroom when we do. Now granted, her food and litter box are in there, but she will run, rub against whomever, generally *me*, and then almost try and stop me... I can't count the times I've tripped or almost tripped over her. What really makes me mad, is the bathroom door (it's in our bedroom) is open *almost* all the time. I close it if one of the babies are napping in there, but otherwise, it is open.
You would THINK after 9 years, she'd stop, but nope!!

 

[Pakey]

My dogs are hairless and both must sleep under the covers. Neither will get under the covers until we are in the bed first. My female will lay on top of the covers at the end of the bed and cry in whines of 3, then a pause, 3 cries, another pause. The cries get a bit louder each time. She will not move, she will not come up the top of the bed to make it easier to get her under the covers. She will do it forever (I have tried to hold out just to see if she will ever stop and she will not). Finally, either my husband and I get up, pick her up, place her under the covers at the foot of the bed. If we try to do this before we get into bed, she crawls back out. I think she must want us to warm the sheets up for her.

 

[NeverlandClub23]

My dog takes one piece of food out of her bowl, places it on the floor, and eats it, and repeats

She has many odd habits but I'm sure most pets do .

 

[mla1977]

One of my cats has been trying to train me to give her snacks every night after I get out of the shower. She comes into the bathroom as I am getting out of the shower and rubs my legs (after they are dry at least!) and then starts meowing at me. If she doesn't come into the bathroom, she starts meowing as soon as I go into the bed room.

Last night I walked into the bedroom in a towel. She had been sitting on the bed with DBF, but as soon as she saw me in the towel, she jumped off the bed and walked over to me and started crying. I'm trying to resist because this pattern has to stop, but she is so darn cute!

 

[cdepauli]

My dogs (2 boys 7 and 1) also each have their own food and water bowls. I keep dry food out for them all day and then when I "feed" them, put wet/dry together. When I feed them they will eat out of their own bowl. During the day, they'll only eat the dry food out of the older one's bowl. The younger one will take a mouthful and come into the dining room, which is carpeted, and drop the food then eat it. The older one will try to "sneak" wet food out of the younger's bowl if he leaves some in there. They will ONLY drink out of the older one's bowl, even if it's empty and the other bowl is full. If I move the bowl to the other spot, they'll drink out of it. Go figure!

To add, when we got the puppy last year, he started drinking out of Bailey's bowl and I heard this yelp. I looked into the kitchen and Bailey had this completely SCANDALIZED look on his face, like "hey mom get this dog out of my bowl!" Later that night when we were going to bed, Bailey kept acting like he had to go out. I went downstairs and opened the door and he just stood there. I, the stupid human, finally put two and two together, emptied out his water bowl, rinsed it, and filled it back up. He started drinking like he hadn't ever drank before. He mustn't have touched his water all day! Poor guy. They've since adjusted.

 

[dizluvah]

Our cat will sit on the toilet seat lid while DH is in the shower and wait for DH to take the shower head and drip water all over the cat's back - our kitty didn't get the memo that cat's don't like water - he likes the "drips" all over his back, head and face.

He doesn't do this with me, only DH.

 

[RF536]

My dog makes the rounds several times a night to make sure everyone is ok. She will leave our room, cross the living room, then go in DS9's room, then DS7's, accross the back of the dinning area by the patio door, and then finally out the laundry room into her pen, then back in our room. She is even worse if someone is gone for the night, then she repeatedly goes to thier room and looks for them, and then comes back to wake one of us up to let us know that someone is missing.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

My dog has so many strange habits. She takes a piece of food out of her bowl and sets it on the ground and then pushes it with her nose around the floor, when she is done she will eat it and then repeat with another piece. Another one is that she will not chew on any of her bone until both my DH and I are at home and sitting on the couch. As soon as the second person comes home she runs and grabs her bone. She also has a weird little dance she does before she goes to the bathroom, we call it the poop dance.

 

[Papa Deuce]

Oh, and with the water dishes.... they absolutely will not drink anything if we aren't home.

To the poster who said she leaves food out all day, well, I say you are lucky that you can do that. I am quite sure that my Golden Retriever would eat 5 - 10 pounds of food a day if we let her. We feed the dogs twice a day - about 8 ounces each time.... and they are still a little heavy even though we feed them low calorie foods and the amount the bag says to feed them.

 

[Zandy595]

We have a cat we should have named Hoover because she eats everything she finds on the floor. She also licks the microfiber couch for some strange reason. And when we first got her she would put her paw in her dry food dish and try to scoop it into her canned food dish. When she was at the shelter they mixed dry and canned food together, so I guess she was trying to do it herself.

 

[OK!]

My cat has a tall-ish cat tower (it's probably about 5 1/2 feet tall or so) and every single time he climbs up into it, he sits in the little basket at the top and starts howling at either the walls (it's in a corner) or ceiling. The only way to get him to stop is to say, "Hey, you don't have to yell at the walls!" and he stops immediately. But not till I tell him to.

 

[cdepauli]

Oh, and with the water dishes.... they absolutely will not drink anything if we aren't home.

To the poster who said she leaves food out all day, well, I say you are lucky that you can do that. I am quite sure that my Golden Retriever would eat 5 - 10 pounds of food a day if we let her. We feed the dogs twice a day - about 8 ounces each time.... and they are still a little heavy even though we feed them low calorie foods and the amount the bag says to feed them.

Well the one dog won't eat food unless I mix in wet food, so that's fine, and the other one isn't anywhere near overweight and he just snacks.

 

[Angelhalo]

My dog takes one piece of food out of her bowl, places it on the floor, and eats it, and repeats

She has many odd habits but I'm sure most pets do .

Our dog does the same thing.

Our cat doesn't lap up water with her tongue, instead she scoops it up in her paw and then drinks it out of her paw.

 

[gulf breeze]

We have a cat that will lick the water left in the sink and tub from when we brush our teeth and shower. She always has a bowl of fresh water so I've no clue why she does this. She also will sleep curled up in my sink. Another cat has learned to open doors (lever handles) so you can't lock him out of any room. He also potty trained his self, as in I heard water running and thought one of my kids left it running. Flipped on the bathroom light and here is this 15 lb. cat with his hind legs down in the bowl looking up at me with this look on his face that said "What are looking at" First thing I thought of was, gross! you drink out of there They have lots more weird traits but these are my favorites.

 

[OK!]

And when we first got her she would put her paw in her dry food dish and try to scoop it into her canned food dish. When she was at the shelter they mixed dry and canned food together, so I guess she was trying to do it herself.

Aw, that's cute!

 

[KNJWDW]

Our sweet Golden Retriever has his "babies." These are a couple of our kids old stuffed animals that he has had for years. He is very gentle with them and holds them in his mouth and kind of sucks on them. Sometimes he uses them as little pillows and puts his head on them when he sleeps. When we return home from being gone for a while (doesn't matter if it is one hour or 8, the first thing he does is run and find one, grabs it and runs in circles crying!

Amy