Wierd Pet Habits

[chell]

My dog has to have at least one blind in the LR raised a bit so she can sit and watch outside. If we don't raise the blind she will chew them! We also have to leave the TV on for her when we are gone.

This morning she thought I had slept enough so she started jumping on me and licking my face so I would get up. When I rolled over she was still trying to get me. Now she's sitting in HER recliner! I lost that chair as soon as we brought it in the house. I don't understand why she keeps taking my chairs! Oh well, I'm at the computer most of the time anyway.

 

[Serena]

My dog will shake her head at me to rattle her collar and tags when I'm sleeping and she wants my attention. If I don't move fast enough she'll jump on the bed. If I still don't move she'll breathe on me and then lick me. I don't ignore her much.

If you come over she thinks you are here to rub her belly. It's not a good idea to wear black. lol When we have company, dressed up, or someone who doesn't care for dogs, we put her in one of the bedrooms or make her leave them alone.

 

[Sharby]

My neighbour and I both have cats and mail slots in our front doors. Sometimes when one of us is going out, we will go over to the other neighbour's front door and throw cat treats through the mail slot.

Both cats now get very interested when they sense someone coming to the front door. If they decide that the person coming to the front door is not the treat-toting next-door neighbour, they'll lose interest before the person gets to the front door. If however, they sense that it is indeed the treat-toting next-door neighbour, they do this stalking, low-to-the-ground run for the front hall, waiting for those treats to pop through the mail slot. It's quite funny, especially if you happen to have visitors at the time.

What's really strange is that if you try to 'trick' your own cat by going out and throwing treats through your own mail slot, they just walk over and get the treats. Somehow only the neighbour's treats are worth 'stalking'!

But we think it adds interest to our cats' days while they wait for us to get home.

 

[Disney Ella]

My nine-year-old cat has just recently started to drink out of the toilet! We've started giving him fresh water more than once a day, but he still heads for the toilet if we forget to close the lid. Maybe he's turning into a dog in his old age.

 

[Saffron]

Kirk -- you cat's a cutie!

BonnieA -- that made me LOL!

One of my cats, Sam, loves olives. When I have olives with my lunch, I have to get out 2 or 3 extra for him. He doesn't eat it, he bats it around and rolls on it until my Lab figures out he has food and goes over and eats it. Sam is obsessed with them though. He is obesses with the smell. He wants to get into the olive jar. Olives have some sort of catnip affect on him.

 

[NCRedding]

We also have an Oreo cat--he's black with a white strip down his belly, so when I hold him on his side he looks like an Oreo cookie. Our other cat has the strange trick: she fetches aluminum foil balls. We ask her--where's your ball Mistic? She goes to the drawer where we kept the aluminum foil, we tear her off a piece and throw it. She'll chase it and bring it back to us, sometimes as much as 30 times in a row. Unfortunately, she also thinks 5:15 am is an excellent time to play fetch, so she brings us a ball and drops in on our head until we wake up.

 

[2Poodles]

Our 10 1/2 year old Standard Poodle Sebastian chews the hair on his right ear. By the time he goes to the groomers the hair on his left ear is 2-3 inches longer than the right. He looks lop sided.

Our 4 1/2 year old Standard Poodle Winslow howls like a wolf when he hears a police siren, fire truck siren, ambulance siren and the whistle of a train.


Mary & the 2Poodles (Sebastian & Winslow)

 

[Kteacher]

my cat " el duque" loves drinking straws, and will steal them right out of your glass. He carries them around in his mouth. He loves to play fetch ( especially at 3 in the morning ). I usually wake up to find drinking straws on our bed that he's dropped there

 

[Liz]

I just heard this story Friday from the home bound school teacher that comes here to teach my daughter once a week. It sounds unbelievable but this is from a person I highly respect and have no doubt its true!

They feed their 10 yr. old dog with a spoon and have since she was a puppy! If they just put food out on a dish she won't eat! They tried once and she went two days without food so they went back to spoon feeding. She doesn't lick it off either. She opens her mouth and eats it like a human!! She's an inside dog but must eat outside. Now here's the real kicker . . . we live in Utah so it gets very cold in the winter. This dog must eat outside but she gets cold in the winter so the dog stays inside and they open the sliding glass door so just her head can be outside. The "parents" of this dog go outside in the cold to feed her while the doggie's body is inside staying warm!!!

They love this dog so much! I think its really cute! They also said she's really sensitive and knows when its time for her "dad" to come home and if he's going to be late she acts depressed and they have to explain to her why he's late and when he'll be home!

 

[DaveyPoo]

Our cat, Spanky, is....well....a box-a-holic. He can't get enough of cardboard boxes. No matter the size, he has to get in side and hide. He'll even go so far as to pull a box from your hands so he can get into it.

If it's cardboard, he's all over it!

 

[cindala]

Our Jack Russell Terrier, Nellie, has a big thing for tissues and toilet paper!

She pulls toilet paper off the roll, or grabs tissues out of the waste basket, and runs like crazy! She will even search for tissues in coat pockets, and handbags. I wonder what the attraction is!

 

[bridgettesmom]

Well,our 3 yr old dachshund, rolls over bugs???..I don't understand why ..she doesn't try to eat them...she sees a bug ,runs over and rolls over them!! Maybe ,she is trying to hug them!! Dachshunds are hunters by nature,well,mine hunts leaves and rocks she actually brings them over to me to show me I have to admit I rather see her hunt rocks than poor unsuspecting birds

Our Lhasa Apso doesn't like to drink water from her bowl, she runs to the bathroom,jumps in the shower and starts barking ,so, that I go over and bring her "special cup" that she drinks water from!!!...She also is very fond of paper ,if we leave the bathroom door open she pulls the toilet paper and rolls it all over the house, sits down and has a "snack".I actually saw her tonight going into my husband's office ripping a piece of a box to have a "snack".??
I know , my babies are weird,but, they are so lovable!!

 

[Pin Wizard]

Originally posted by Mickeyfaniam
well I don't have her any more but I had a large german shepard that used to sit ON TOP OF her dog house. Being an A shape roof....it just did not look comfortable.....but I guess she wanted to be higher up so she could check things out

LOL! Did you name her Snoopy?

 

[Pin Wizard]

Originally posted by d.kurz
OK, I gotta tell ya, OREO is a strange name for a cat. And that's exactly what I told DD13 when she got her cat. But guess what ...we have an Oreo, too. DH and I usually call her O.

My neighbor across the street has an Oreo, but he's a dog.

 

[Pin Wizard]

Max has a couple quirks of his own. He's a retriever, but he won't retrieve! I've even taken him down the street to watch another dog do it. Nope! We've tried sticks, frisbees, and balls. Max wants nothing to do with retrieving. And in the past month he's started something new. We had a tremendously LOUD thunderstorm one night. He wouldn't leave my side and was literally shaking. Last week we had a thunderstorm, not nearly as severe. Max stood by my bed the entire time and shook. Poor thing. We love him to bits!

 

[KJo719]

My dog won't eat her dinner until we sit down to eat dinner! It doesn't matter if we're running late, she waits for us. She'll just stand in the kitchen watching us make dinner until it's ready! It's pretty funny to be sitting there eating dinner to the sound of her chewing her dog food! I guess it makes her really feel like she's part of the family! Oh, what will I do when I get married and move, I'll be so sad without her!

 

[disykat]

I'm loving these stories!

Our dog also likes to sit on the back of the couch too, only she has horrible balance and keeps falling off (plus at 25 pounds she's a little too big!). The couch is shoved right up to a bay window leaving a little area where if she falls down there she's stuck and can't get out. Sometimes she gets kind of stuck on the window sill part way down, so there are tons of toenail scratches on the wall where she tries to regain her perch.

It doesn't stop her though - she just can't resist the view.

 

[tracyeliza]

I too have a retriever. He loves to retrieve but will never let you have it back. He will catch the ball and then do figure 8's around you. We have taken to playing with 2 balls. If you throw the second one he will drop the first one! Also he is 110 lbs and like the dog in a previous post, is afraid of thunder and lightning. He even attempts to get under the bed but he is too big so he just puts his head under there! He then proceeds to shiver and shake! He is a big wuss but we love him! The only other thing he fears is our six and a half pound female cat! She rules him!

 

[DRoseBall]

We have twin cats, Sugar and Spice. Sugar is my DDs cat and she will hang around most of the day wherever the 'people' are, but when my DD gets ready to go to bed, Sugar will follow DD on command upstairs to her bed! She won't sleep with anyone else and she gets annoyed when DD spends the night out. It is REALLY bad when she is at camp for two weeks!!! It is so strange because I never thought cats actually followed orders since they are usually 'in charge' anyway. Spice, on the other hand, has one chair in the living room that she sits in and she sits in it just like Oreo in the picture--she sits up with her back leaned against the back of the chair and her front two arms (legs???) leaning casually on the arm of the chair! She watches tv and sometimes just sits there waiting for someone to turn the tv on! She also gets annoyed if anyone else sits there and she will stand at the foot of the chair and mew until you get up! It is funny when someone comes over that doesn't know this because they always say "What does your cat want?" I just feel stupid saying "She wants to sit THERE!!"


Denise

 

[philaround]

we lost one of our cats last year [Patches] but all the time we had him he had a thing for the bathtub. If any of us took a shower, and he was able to get into the bathroom with us, he would sit and wait for the water to be turned off and then jump into the tub and drink the soapy water as it drained. Every now and then he would get impatient and jump up on the tub rim, usually falling into the tub letting out a very indignant squell and try to climb the shower curtain.