What weird things do your pets do?

[MistressMerryweather]

My cat LOVES McDonald french fries, will sit and stare at you while you're eating them. I've never seen a cat love something like that.

That's so funny. You know that McD's fries have some kind of beef product in them. It listed in the ingredients. Smart kitty!

My cat that died a couple of years ago *loved* raw green beans. I mean, crazy love. LOL She would come and take them out of the colander with her claws while I was snapping them and eat them up. She'd try to be all stealthy and sly but couldn't help herself. She could here the first snap from the basement and came running like a loony.

 

[clh2]

We've had our girl for just over a month. I don't even think I've posted any pics yet - so please allow me to introduce you to Katy. She is a 6 year old yellow lab, from a rescue. She is the sweetest thing EVER. So - I wonder who is missing this girl. She was supposedly a stray, but she couldn't have been for long.

Katy always, always prefers to sit in our kitchen ON one of the throw rugs. Of course, we didn't figure this out until she had been with us a couple of days. She would literally go to the end of the back hall - a good 10 feet away, and then sit down. She cocks her head when there is a conversation going on, just like she totally understands the convo.

AND...if you are scratching her head - she will give you a little "head butt" if you stop. Kind of a little nudge like - uh duh...you weren't supposed to stop yet.

 

[momof1princess]

my basset hound eats ANYTHING - he's eaten a dish towel, part of an old t-shirt, several clorox wipes, and various napkins and kleenex that were accidentally left where he could get to them.
he is very comical. when he sees a treat in your hand, he starts dancing in a circle. if i tell him to "do the shiver for mama" he'll look up at me with that sad, hound dog face and whimper, while doing a little shiver with his shoulders, as if he caught a chill. and yes, he gets a treat for it, lol. if i get his brush and ask him "does mama need to brush the baby?" he lays down and rolls over on his back, so i can scratch his belly with the brush, then he stands up and sits down for me to brush under his chin and on his chest between his front legs.
he doesn't play ball, he plays keep away. you throw the ball, he goes and gets it, then you have to chase him around to get it back.
he also eats vegetables straight out of the garden-he's particularly fond of tomatoes and cucumbers, but will make do with okra in a pinch.

 

[KristaTX]

One of my dogs will sit there and stare at you if you are sitting in his spot on the couch. I'm not sure if we always end up moving because the staring is uncomfortable or because he looks so cute doing it.

Is his name Sheldon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKoBiZanl38

 

[gillep]

My Beagle is obsessed with paper products and fabric, if he sees any he just zones in on them and you cannot break his concentration!

He also puts us to bed each night. When he gets sleepy he sits in his cage and cries until DH and I turn off the TV lock him in and retire upstairs, whether we are tired or not.

 

[MushyMushy]

My dogs do a lot of weird things, but the one off the top of my head right now is something the girl in my avatar does several times a day. I can't describe it very well, but she will stretch out her front paws and lean back with her butt high in the air (like a downward facing dog!) and then a few seconds later reverses position to where her head is high in the air and her back legs are stretched out way behind her. Then she'll plop down on the ground really hard and sigh in contentment.

I've obviously seen dogs stretch before, but I've never had one that did it so precisely in these positions on a regular basis like her.

 

[arminnie]

He is also obsessed with kleenex, napkins, papertowels, etc. He eats them if he gets ahold of any.

My Breaux (in my signature) is obsessed with paper too. Funny thing is that so was his father. It's hereditary.

I mostly have had rescue dogs so no idea of parentage. But Breaux was part of a post Katrina "oops" litter where a 15year old dog impregnated a younger one. Last thing papa did before he died was sire a new litter. It's been interesting to see what he has inherited from mom and pop.

When I go to bed I can come back in the living room and find him up in my chair checking out the table to see if I've left any napkins or kleenix. He starts shaking (I really don't beat him) as he knows he's been caught where he is not supposed to be.

My first cocker was obsessed with balloons. I would blow one up and he would bounce it all over the house like a seal with a ball until he would finally "kill" it.

 

[AmandaNied]

I have 2 dogs: Dominic is a black lab who is obsessed with crayons. He will eat a pack in a few minutes if I don't catch him...He'd eat them over his dog food

My dog Itchy (my son named him) is a German Shorthair who HAS to be under the covers...he will not sleep at night unless he is under a blanket. Right now he is under the blanket with me, laying on my legs. He will burrow under untill the blanket covers him and will PULL it off my husband and I if he doesn't have enough to cover every inch of his body

 

[mommy2allyandaveri]

I have a yellow lab that will just sit anywhere, and not do anything. Like she will walk to my foyer and just sit. Or we find her in a hallway sitting. Just sitting.

My chocolate lab will do this as well. She will also lay right outside the shower door while I am taking a shower.

One of our cats, his name is Loki but friends call him Loco is insane! He steals any food that he can. Some of the stranger things have been:
-An artichoke, once he figured out he didn't want it, left it behind the couch for me to find.
--A slice of cherry pie in a ziplock
--A whole pound of frozen mean
--corn bread in foil
--ziplock with pancakes in it

Loki also has "babies". He has about 10 small stuffed animals that he carries around in his mouth and leaves them through out the house. I pick them all up and put them in the cat tower, within minutes he is removing them. One time he brought about 5 of his little babies and left them on our bed. I was in bed watching tv and didn't notice. The dog didn't want to get on the bed because she was confused. DH came in and asked if I had done it... yea right.

He also has a favorite scarf that he carries around. He stole it from my closet so many times I finally gave up and let him have it. He would have to pick one from jcrew.

 

[bigbabyblues]

We have a 90-lb black lab that is terrified of the neighbor's little cat.
He tries to sit on MIL's lap--no one else, just her. As hard as he tries, he is NOT a lap dog.
He comes running to the kitchen if anyone says "gravy" (that's not his name, lol)
Other than that, he's just lazy.

 

[LisaR]

My dog takes her kong over to the entertainment center, drops it and purposefully shoves it with her paws so it will roll underneath. With luck, it will disappear for a few and roll right back out in which case she pounces on it. At other times, it rolls around and comes to a stop out of her reach. She tries and tries to squeeze under there but can't so she starts this obnoxious but cute "talking" until we get it for her. As soon as we do, she immediately shoves it back under the entertainment center! This is a game she plays after dinner almost every night.

 

[Robinrs]

I have a 10yo cat that FREAKS OUT over my ... get this ... VOICE!!

I adopted him from the Humane society when he was 2 yo and he became VERY SICK after getting neutered. He remained in the hospital for 2 weeks and all I did for those 2 weeks was visit him during my lunch hour and sing "Jesus Loves the Little Children". He barely knew me but would just stare at me as I sang the song.

When he recovered they allowed me to take him home. If I was in another room and sang "Jesus Loves the Little Children" he'd come running! Now it's not just the song ANYTHING I say he thinks is for him. He will curl up on my chest or on my neck and purr.... if I stop talking he stops purring. It's aMAzing.

 

[scottishduffy]

My cat goes on what my DH and I have deemed his "crazy cat runs" every day between noon and two. He will spend about 5-10 minutes running as fast as he can from one end of the apartment to the other. You can hear his claws digging into the carpet to help with traction. He will attack his toy mice and sometimes carry one in his mouth. The rest of the apartment is an obstacle course as he jumps sofas and generally acts crazy. After his run he will hop onto his tower and take a well deserved nap for successfully killing his toy mice yet again.

He also has a crazy cuddly time in the afternoon as well. This used to take place around 4ish but recently he has been squeezing it in directly before the crazy cat run. He just goes nuts for affection and walks all over who ever is there. Purring up a storm and putting his head under any hands he sess until you pet him.

 

[dizluvah]

we have 25 lb HUGE kitty named...goober.... he loves to be dripped on from the shower head - he will push his way into the bathroom while one of us is showering. He waits on the bathroom rug next to the tub and when we are done showering we remove the shower head on the "rope or hose" and shake the water over the cat's back - he loves it....if we forget he will meow and sit waiting for his drippies...then he proceeds to groom himself licking all the water drips

 

[Catira]

I don't know if it is a "thing" but I am amazed at our dog's internal clock. About 5 minutes before the kids come home from school, she is up on her stool by the front window watching for them. 9:00 at night she is pawing at me to get her medicine and start her nighttime ritual.

She also likes to sneak food out of the garbage and take it out her dog door to eat it outside. By sneak, I mean sneak. She creeps across the kitchen floor and slowly pushes whatever she has out her dog door and then runs really fast down the stairs. It is quite comical. I keep trying to get it on video.

My maltese Prince somehow knows when my son's school bus has arrived. Doesn't matter where we are in the house, a couple minutes before 3:30 p.m. he is either on top of the sofa looking out through the window or by the front door window. Now what amazes me is how he knows the difference between the first bus that passes by at 2:45 p.m. and the 3:30 p.m. bus.

 

[meloneyb21]

My youngest cat! It's the darndest thing! I have 2 cats, an 8 year old and a 2 year old. The 8 year old is basically a normal cat, does nothing, just sleeps....but my youngest one loves watching the Nat Geo WILD channel. ANYTHING about lions or wolves. I swear it never fails. DH loves to watch those shows and when he turns them on the kitty comes from NOWHERE and parks his butt in front of the tv....and he sits for the entire show! I have picture upn picture of him doing this. I even tapped it for my mom because she didn't believe me. Lo and behold, he didn't move an inch the entire time and sat and watched the whole hour long show.

 

[dhcoffey]

We have four cats, a mama and her three kittens. The kittens are almost 3 yo now, all girls. One of the kittens will climb in our garden tub and just sit there on her back legs and scratch at the sides of the tub for probably 10 minutes at a time. Craziest thing to watch.

One of the other kittens latched on to my husband shortly after birth and thinks she's his guard kitty. She follows just him everywhere, works with him in his office at home, goes to the shower with him and waits outside until he's done, sits by the sink while he puts in his contacts, etc. She won't have anything to do with the rest of us. As soon as I get up in the mornings, she'll get in bed with him on my side of the bed. She loves him

Heather

 

[xJenna]

When my shih tzu was a few years younger I used to play hide and seek with her. I would tell her to stay and then she would give me a couple of seconds before she came to find me. She wouldn't stop looking around until she found me. Also, if we got her all wound up if you said, "Emma. On your mark, get set, GO!" she would book it around the house for a few laps, stop, and if you shouted "GO!" again she would start running around. She's also another dog that just sits and stares at nothing, it really creeps me out. If you try to get her to play fetch, when you throw it she looks at you with one side of her lip raised and just has the expression of, "You threw it, you can go get the stupid thing." Now she's old and she sleeps all day but she's still the funniest little dog I've ever met.

Our mini schnauzer Izzy has a few odd things. She loves to drink my mom's coffee in the morning, but HATES my dad's. She loves to sniff mouths. If you are sitting she will climb on you and sniff your mouth for as long as she wants and he little beard suffocates you. She loves people, but my goodness does Izzy LOVE my bf. She has a high pitched bark anyways, but when ever he comes over she makes the awful, shrill barking noise. Almost like someone is kicking her but it's a happy noise because her little stub of a tail is going nuts and she's hopping on her two hind legs. She doesn't make that noise for anyone else. The last thing I can think of is the she loves to lay across our shoulders, like a travel pillow. Her head and paws resting on one shoulder, her butt and back paws on the other. It's cute but it can get aggravating when she is constantly sniffing my ear or mouth. I love both my puppies though.

 

[Mama-san]

My cat loves to visit me (and only me - nobody else in the family) when I use the bathroom. While I am on the toilet, he will sit on the counter beside me or sit on the end of the tub and stare at me. If I am in front of the mirror, he will jump up on the counter and "nest" in one of the sinks.

 

[bas71873]

My cat LOVES McDonald french fries, will sit and stare at you while you're eating them. I've never seen a cat love something like that.

LOL. We used to have a cat that would do that with Twizzlers. She would eat one end while you ate the other....Lady and the Tramp style. I miss that crazy kitty