Just want to ask people about crazy stuff their pet(s) do(es).

My dog will sit in his pen and bark, so I let him out. Then he will walk right back into the pen and start barking again...This is a daily thing.

And then my snake tries to eat mice sideways...spending hours trying to eat it. And ends up leaving it on the ground.

Share your stupid/funny pet stories!

(wow i'm bored, starting this thread...)

My cat, (link in my sig) have a funny habit of needing company while eating, also he has really weird eating-times.

Normally he wants food at 2am, and 4am, combine that with his urge for human company (me) then you see the fun of it.... :eek:

All I had were little frogs that I received when we finished a school project on them oh . . . 4 years ago . . .

Until they ate each other, either that or they died and degraded overnight because all that were left was the skeletons.

One lived of course, he died later of old age.

I found this weird enough to post here. Though what exactly transpired remains a mystery to me.

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[quote=gamer10]All I had were little frogs that I received when we finished a school project on them oh . . . 4 years ago . . .

Until they ate each other, either that or they died and degraded overnight because all that were left was the skeletons.

One lived of course, he died later of old age.

I found this weird enough to post here. Though what exactly transpired remains a mystery to me.

:eek:[/quote]

That's just weird...

[quote=minque]My cat, (link in my sig) have a funny habit of needing company while eating, also he has really weird eating-times.

Normally he wants food at 2am, and 4am, combine that with his urge for human company (me) then you see the fun of it.... :eek:[/quote]
Cool cat Minque, if a bit on the weird side

My dog... (its dead now)

Well it didn't have any weird stuff about it, only that it was my steed while I was a baby, I rode on him :rofl:

Pluss that he used to bite all my toys too, but it was OK because he stept away from the action figures and LEGO. Only took those small military men :rofl:

:goodjob:

My (incredibly numerous) cats. I tend to move a lot, so I've known a lot of cats - all of them local, of course and all with their own personal quirks. One, for instance, had a great love of rinding on people's shoulders. At every single opportunity he would leap up on a person and then ride around, carefully coiled around the neck so as to sit there with a comfy viewpoint ahead from your shoulder... I'm fairly sure he was a parrot in a past life.

Another liked to paint. This was a while before I'd discovered the wonderful phenomenon of painting cats, so it got me by surprise when my cat took an unusal liking to my paints and attempting to colour the walls. Surely enough, with the provision of a blank canvas and a few art lessons, he was reinventing feline abstractionism :shocked:

My dog (a black German Shepherd/Newfounland cross) likes to come up to me while i'm sitting and sit down with his back to me. Then he throws his head back and looks at me upside-down with the silliest grin on his face...
My cat has a habit of licking me in the face when it thinks I should get up in the morning.

My cat wants me to pet him before he will eat, and well... thats about it...

Think I'll have quite a few for this one...

Something rather amusing and unusual (to me) happened today, though.
My cat doesn't always want to step back inside when we want her to. She usually justs starts rolling in the grass or hide under a tree, which is what she did today. She usually responds to smell and mention of food - especially fish, so I whispered "yummy food, fish" etc. for a bit and she immediately came out and started walking towards the door with that "hungry" look. She went into the house, past the kitchen and straight into the living room, up in a chair and went to sleep.
Hmm... :paperbag:

Ive had 2 pet snakes, several frogs, a millipede, and I currently have a Tarantula. Its a Chilean Rose tarantula which Ive had for about 6 years.

I have one snake...(I used to have two, but one recently died.)

What kind do/did you have?

A have a ball python, and my burmese python died...

My dog refuses to eat whenever anybody is watching it (you have to leave the room) and anytime I walk by it, it follows me untill I feed it a biscuit.

My sisters dog Abby will grab food from her bowl, then eat over the floor instead. Shes weird...

I've got 3 dogs (2 shih' tzus 1 dachsund(sp?)) on of the zus (Sampson) has seperation anxiety from my mom. he will whine and whine whenever she leaves the house. and the other zu (cisco) has obsessive cumpulsive disorder, he licks everything.

The original Trey (the dachshund) prefers to eat wherever we are. So he will grab 4 or 5 bits of dry food from his dish, move to the center of the room between us, drop the bits, eat them one at a time, then repeat. He also prefers to sleep covered up- has to have a towel in his bed to burrow under.

When we were taking one of my cats to the vet, she constantly meowed in her crate. Then, my bird, a cockatile, decided she wanted to meow, which she did succesfully. Also, my bird has picked up the telephone sound and does a surprisingly good impression. Since we allways "pay attention" to the phone, she starts ringing like crazy when she wants to be taken out of her cage etc. Also, my kitten has a habit of knocking food out of her dish and batting it under the refridgerator.

Wow, that was one smart bird! I've always admired "smart" animals. Except cats and dogs, they are just to... common.

I'm afraid I don't have much of a story of my own, I already mentioned the long list pets I've had over my lifespan so I'm not mentioning it again . Anyway, my current pets (which are actually my brothers, not mine) are two guinnea-pigs, both male, and well the funny thing is that as they reached a certain age (about 8 month) the bigger of the two started trying to hump the other one . We felt very bad for the smaller one and also they did this annoying noice and smelled awfull , so eventually we had to buy a new cage to get those horny rats away from eachother. Well, that's the end of the story. Oh, and everyone lived happily ever after!

My dog likes to run up to a pile of clothes that just came out of the dryer and roll all over them, covering them in black labrador hair. Also, when we have a birthday and we sing, she goes berzerk to the song because she absolutely loves icing, she will jump and bark and scratch as soon as she hears the song...

Also I've noticed many of you find it wierd when a dog takes their food and eats it elsewhere besides the bowl, I believe that is simply old instincts from wolves... they often take a chunk of meat from a carcass and find a place to eat.. just a suspicion. My dog sometimes does that...

Yeah, yeah, you only wish you had a wolf instead of a dog as pet..

Actually, I rather let them roam free, I may have 1.5 acres but that isn't enough for a wolf, let alone its diet needs would not be met. In addition, I don't think the neighbors would like the idea... the howling, growling and prejudices would cause fear.... not like I would stop it because my paranoid neighbors were afraid =)

But anyway, I also would like to mention a a mystery of a pet. In the fifth grade, I bought a lizard or what they called "baby dragons" because my family used to have a few but they died of age. I thought it would be nice, I brought it home and surprisingly my mom accepted it and we set our old lizard tank up (quite large) in my room. Weeks went by, I fed the cute little thing crickets like I always used to and gave it fresh water everyday. Anyway, on a weekend I went over my friends for a few hours, came back and the lid was up on the tank! But not only that, my dog was sitting in front of the tank staring at it. I believe my dog may have nudged the lid off and the poor lizard crawled out to its death of I left it open the the lizard was tracked down. I never found a little lizard body or anything, and both my mom and dad claim they would have never released it or anything.... I would call Scooby-Doo to solve this mystery but I'm afraid a dog ate the lizard... lol..

Dogs didn't evolve from wolves, they both evolved from a common ancestor.

Anyway, my old dog didn't have anything really crazy but he did make practice of obtaining his own food. Whether we fed him or not, it didn't matter, if ever he saw food it belonged to him. We would see bread packaging torn the shreds with not a slice to be found. I was at a friend's house (their dog would make practice of climbing on my dogs back, not humping him because he had no balls but poised to do so. My dog was sort of annoyed by it, but didn't understand what it was.) and walked right through the open door and snatch away their steak they had spent hours preparing. Naturally both myself and my dog made ourselves scarce.

There were also two beaches in my neighborhood (for a lake, this was in one of three places in California where it snows). One was a homeowners for neighborhood people like myself, and the other was the tourist beach that charged admission. The homeowner's beach had plenty of barbeques people could cook at, the tourist beach had employees running the barbeques on thr 4th of July. There was a river between the two beaches that if you had the balls you could swim across. So we were chilling at our beach, not eating food, left drooling over the delicious barbeque smells that were everywhere. My dog was with us, and occassionally he'd leave and come back, sit around for awhile, then leave and come back, sit around, then leave and come back. I heard from my friends who were hanging out at the tourist beach that he had been stealing people's food right off their plates, then running into the bushes while employees would chase him, swim across to our beach where they weren;t allowed, eat the food infront of all of them on the river's shore, then leave for a while, come back and do the same thing.

lol, I would love to have a wolf for a pet. hmmm, let's see a good story, most of them you have to be there..... .... ..... ack, can't think of any...sorry. This one time I thought it would be kewl to have a wolf...oh...yea....nm

Well my cat, have this strange habit, he cant eat from the food bowl if it is less than half full, and if I try to refuse to fill it up again, he starts to cry, and cry...then I give up after a couple of minutes at the most ( I can never refuse a crying cat ).

But i must say I would like to have a wolf as a pet as well, I have always loved them...I mean just look at our dear wolfie...isnt he adorable.

My kitty, a Norwegian forest cat btw have a habit of preferring company when he eats, he usually wakes me up in the middle of the night when he´s going to eat, just to have me standing beside him when he´s eating!

I have these adorable fish... they do the cutest little things... like die and bloat up my fish tank with their fetid stinking corpses....

I hate fish.

Recently, I found a mouse nest in the drawer of a desk in my garage.Well, my cats both like to eat mice and I hate them. So, I picked up both my cats and took the drawer out and stuck the cats in. The results were'nt as expected. Both my cat and my kitten stared at the mice for five seconds and then ran off to play with each other. Ugh we just bought those horrid snap traps for the mice

My cat (which I've given to my mother now) uses its paw to pick up food from the food bowl, then drops it onto the floor and eats it from there, or eats it directly from her paw if she can hold onto it for that long.

Also she loved drinking water from the sink...

My sister's cat jumps up to doorhandles and opens doors to rooms she is not allowed to be in. So now she always has to stay outside when my sister's family aren't home...

Man, now THAT'S wierd. Sounds like it was a freakish cannibal frog you got there or something.
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Oh, and about funny pet stuff that my pet does; my cat loves to ride in a basket that I carry around in the house, she sits patiently in a basket or a box and waits for someone to pick it up.
Well, ok, that's not wierd really, who wouldn't want to be carried around in a basket

Haha..yeah, they love to drag their food around the house. Many dogs do that, too. Usually it's the spot with the most expensive carpet. I think this is somehow linked to Murphy's law

Yeah. Most cats prefer running water. The idea is that water that is moving is usually fresh - like a river as opposed to some old murky puddle.


It's amazing what some cats can do. I once spent a vacation on a farm with my mom, with ponies and horses and rabbits etc, and all the vacation guests lived in this separate house. There was a common kitchen with one fridge everyone used. Including the farm's cat. He'd always go after the butter, the saussage, cheese and other goodies! We tried putting a frigging table in front of the fridge, to prevent him from getting it open. No such luck: next morning, the table was not in it's place anymore, and the food was eaten! The guy who ran the place acknowledged that that was something we'd just have to live with. We all thought it was pretty funny and amazing.

That he is.

*pets Wolfie*

Blast, my evil persona foiled by my inherent adorableness

As for pet stuff, i don't have any, but i'd love a pet wolf (no kidding ) or failing that, a labrador, retriever or alsatian

Use this as your avatar, and cute-effect is guaranteed!



Always makes me smile.

I forgot to meantion that my dog (who died ) always scratched when he wanted to go outside like a normal dog does. But, my cat caught on and now, when she really wants out, she scratches at the door with her little paws which is cute but about the least effective way to ask out

My furball....(norwegian forrest cat) jumps on my chest of drawers, during the night, in my bedroom, when I sleep, and start tossing things at me when he wants to get out..that is if I keep ignoring his persistent asking......

Rainer wants to pet the wolfie!!!

Hehe, awesome cat.

Well I have 2 cats, one is a giant stupid furball who does too many funny things to list, the other is a cleaver little kittie, well actaully she is normal sized but small compared to my other cat; and she is a total attention hog, she always wants to be stroked but when you do she runs away and then waits for you to follow just because she likes showing her superiority. She will constantly ask to go in and out the window whenever somebody is around. She doesn't sit on anyone unless she knows she is disrupting something, if I pick up a book or xbox controller, she jumps right up, but if I don't have a book she never jumps up. If I am reading the paper she will sit on it. If I am on the computer she will walk on the keyboard untill I kick her out. Or if I am just lying around doing nothing she will come up to be stroked but once I do she will run away and make me follow like I mentioned above, but if I do manage to get her sitting in one place to be stroked then as soon as I stop stroking her she will try to attack my hand. She'd be annoying if she wasn't so cute.

A clever cat in a nutshell...my former kitty was someting like that.....always sitting on my books and papers...when I was reading it....and just then!

My little puppy (6- 8 months not really sure..) is brilliant, she pushed open my room door, walked over hopped up onto to my bed (I'm just sitting there watching her) she sticks her nose in my cereal, takes out the spoon, and carries the bowl over to me. (she's only about a foot long) then whines at me when i take it from her, evidently she wanted me to feed her MY cereal... darn mutt...

Ah well then just do it! It´s like when my furball eats my sour-milk...just like that!..And pinches the ham off my sandwich..when he thinks I´m not watching

You have awsome "furballs"! mine does the thing about sitting on books too. Also, one of my cats has kidney problems and needs special "moist food". Well, she enjoys this food....too much. She wines and sits on the keyboard from about 2:00 to 6:00 (when she gets fed the "moist food").

I guess this would be the most appropriate place to put this. I have an after-hours office job and tonight I saw one of the cruelest animal things I think I've ever seen.
There is this Advertising office and I had to go in there. They pride themselves on having very avante guard decorations & really they do. But, I was walking around, looking for a paperpunch and all of a sudden I saw movement on the wall by the lightswitch.
When I looked there, there was a totally empty halfround/flat-to-the-wall fishtank stuck up on the wall and one little purplish blue fish in it. He was following my every movement around the room. I mean, the whole tank was nothing but whiteness except for him ... he just looked so lonely. When I'd put my finger up to the glass, he'd go to where it was outside the tank. I just felt really bad for him. Such a bleak existence for a fashion statement.

So, I left a note up on the wall and said "This fish needs some vegetation, or another fish or pebbles or something. He looks too lonely." So, I don't care if they don't like that I wrote that or not - I think that poor little fish will die of loneliness or just the shock of all that bleak nothing in his environment. Nature is not that way for fish.

Ibis,

Well done putting up that note!

Although I've heard that goldfish have a memory of about 3 seconds I'm sure the life it has in a completely empty bowl could be made much better by putting in a companion for it and/or some sand and vegetation...

Thank you for your support, Olav.

If it was a beta, which I think maybe it was ... they are quite interesting fish.

We had a male beta, which of course, cannot be with another male beta because they fight all the time. But he was in a large tank with guppies and after the guppies had their babies, the babies would sometimes fall down through this bubble nest the parent guppies made & Killer, the beta, would retrieve the baby fish in his mouth and return it to the bubble nest. Very paternal!

Oh thats soo cute. Go Beta fish!! And also go fish rights! There was a study done a while ago that showed most fish actaully do have quite a long memory, they can be trained to do something (like swim down a pipe after a bell sounds) and they will still do it months after not having done it. I don't think a gold fish's memory is too long but I think it is a lot longer than 3 seconds.

If a fish had a 3 second memory then its even more reason to put interesting things in their tank, because an empty bowl won't keep them entertained for 3 seconds and whenever something interesting does happen like a human comes in then the fish will be back into the state of boredom 3 seconds after the human goes out.

Of course I am happy swimming around in circles in my bowl, I'm trying to catch my tail, once I finally manage to catch it then I'll have to find something else to do but I have yet to catch up to it.

That's complete bullsh*t by the way. Goldfish can learn tricks/the place of the food/such as pretty well. The three second memory stuff is just an urban legend that people invented to not feel so bad for the goldfish in small empty bowls at their homes.

And yes, I've watched Mythbusters.

EDIT: I should always read other people's responds before opening my own mouth....

Thanks for the corrections guys. I had fish when I was a kid (not in a bowl, but a rather large aquarium). Two goldfish and some guppies of some sort, which ate the tails off the gold fish...

I felt bad for them all and flushed them down the toilet...

I think the strangest thing I ever saw was my hampsters exercise regime. Now, this was one fat-british boat hampster - ate way too much, didn't like doing any form of movement (would expect food brought to him). Anyway, one day we hear the wheel creeking, and so figure he's finally decided it was time to exercise. We went downstairs, turned on the lights and... he was pushing the wheel around with his paw, watching with amusement as it turned around.

That was one lazy mammal.

Anyway, here's something intresting about animals, well, most animals anyway. I mean everyone knows some of the freaky stuff (like various useless organs animals have, left over from evolution), but how many of you knew that the majority of animals cannot throw up due to motion sickness?

Wierd, huh? There are only a few animals that throw up when you spin them around and around. Now, before that sounds like I'm being cruel to animals, I knew someone who did research into various drugs and such (back in the days of old school research, 60s, 70s,80s), and obviously there was (is) a lot of animal testing in that kind of thing. Now, without entering a debate on animal rights, he used to work on trying to cure motion sickness, and had to spin animals around. He told me that the only one he could do it with was some kind of Japanese Shrew (or something) because it was one of the few animals with a motion sickness response.

On another, competely unrelated note, does anyone know if dogs can look up?

Uhm... is that a trick question of some sort? Just try holding a goodie above a dog, and it'll look up...

On a similarly unrelated note: Has anyone seen pigeon chickens / kids?

Hmmmm...Olav, I'm still wondering what pigeon chickens are?

If you mean has anyone seem the babies of pigeons, I know of a couple different places where pigeons have built nests and while I have not seen the babies, I have definitely heard them peeping (crying) for their food.

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Speaking of bird's nests ... we get the most majestic parent birds in the world here in Florida. (Well, I think they are.) They are the ospreys - water eagles - who make nests in the tallest trees. When people cut down the tallest trees in their area they start making nests at the tops of radio towers, telephone poles, tall building spires. They can build a really good solid nest on amazingly small spaces.

One time I was outside & looked up and I saw this osprey hauling about a 6 foot long tree branch through the air - up, up, up to its nest. I couldn't stop watching until he got it up there and started pushing & shoving it into place. Then, off he flew to find another. Our TV news shows remotely film some of the baby ospreys in their nests all Spring until they fly away and you can follow their progress in the paper too.