Odd Pet Behavior

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Ok.. so I'm sure a lot of people here have pets, and I'm sure they do plenty of weird things.

I have a two year old cat who's been totally obnoxious since I moved cross country. Beyond his normal crazy behavior, he's obsessed with my boyfriend. And not in the normal, "Pet me, I love you" cat type way. It's like he hates my boyfriend, but always wants to be around him. He'll come home from work and the cat will immediately run over to him and sniff him, and follow him around sniffing him. Then he'll swat at him when he hugs/kisses me, and if he leaves, the cat goes to the door or the window and yowls for either 10 minutes or until he returns. I swear to god he's crazy.

Anyway, post about your own stories about odd pet behavior!

[Jorddyn]

My cat chases his tail, insists on pretending my leg is a scratching post whenever I'm in the kitchen (thankfully declawed), crawls back and forth over my head when he thinks it is time to get up, attacks the toilet whenever it flushes, and chews on my leg when I scratch a certain spot on his back.

Actually, it's probably normal cat behavior, I just find it amusing - except for the waking me up part.

Jorddyn

[Hips]

There's just something about my boyfriend that makes my dog want to hump him (and his dad, apparently). He doesn't do it to anyone else.

[Satira]

My dog has separation anxiety. I really need to work on fixing it, but when I leave her alone she howls and cries like there's no tomorrow.

[Wezas]

My dog loves digging into the hamper and pulling out used/damp washcloths. Carrying them around like a badge of honor.

[CrystalTears]

My cat won't rest on our lap unless we have a blanket on it first. She'll get on your lap and just pace on it, stare at the blanket, stare at your lap and pace again. Her little boney paws digging into your lap. You can turn her around, forcing her to lie down, but it doesn't work. She'll pop back up and stare at the blanket and will stand on your legs. She drives me bonkers with that.

[Ilvane]

My cat follows me through the house when I'm leaving the house meeeeowing. Steven says he stops after I leave, and starts it up right when I get home.

He actually also will wait for me in the hallway and pounce on my leg just for entertainment as I'm walking by..heh.

Angela

[Augie]

My older cat has a shoe fetish. We leave our shoes by the front door and when he sees them, he'll go over and start rubbing all over them. And not just like his head...he rubs his entire body all over it flipping every which way around.

Our younger cat has a plastic bag fetish. She loves to chew on them. I have no idea what possessed her to think they are chew toys buy I'll sit and hear this little crackling and look over and there she is chomping away on a bag. I swear she's gonna suffocate herself one day.

And both of them have this wierd thing about drinking out of the toilet, even though they have 2 water bowls in the house.

[Merji]

My daughter's dog, Cole, has an obsession with panties. He will knock over laundry baskets, raid the girl's bathroom, and bedroom floors, to get them. I can't count the number of undies he's managed to chew up. It's just ewww.. I did hang up a small mesh bag in both my bathroom and the girl's bathroom, this way at least I'm not spending a ton of cash anymore on replacing undies every other week.


My little -Chi-weiner Rocko, he loves to play with the aformentioned pervert, and sticks his entire little head into Cole's mouth. Cole never actually hurts him, but growls and chews on his head the entire time. The little dog is weird...cute..but weird.

[Wezas]

Also my dog after initially greeting someone (aka running up to them, trying to jump up and lick their face) will go directly to her water bowl, lap up so much water that her face is drenched/dripping, and proceed to go back to that person and slime them.

Best time are when they're not "dog people"

[zhelas]

I have a black cat named TC and he loves tissue paper. If I open a box and tissue paper is in there he wants it. I will set a sheet on the floor for him and he proceeds to sit on it and shred it. Sure I have to clean it up but it keeps him occupied for a period of time.

I never got TC declawed and there are times I wish I had. I would come home and if I didn't pick him up he would proceed to climb up my leg and back so he could sit on my shoulders.

My previous calico cat moved in to my parents home in Connecticut. They have a sub pump to keep the basement dry. The water is pumped out into an enclosed yard. Every morning, she would sit at the end of the hose waiting for the water to come out. I can not count how many times she would get a face full of water and she loves it!

[TheEschaton]

My cat used to sleep on my head (I sleep face down, for the most part). Not on my back, my legs, or whatever, but my flipping head.

-TheE-

[Stanley Burrell]

I had a pet fish that comitted suicide.

I am not kidding. This bastard just kept on jumping out of his little plastic fishbowl and I would always have to scoop him up off of the floor and plop it back into its home.

One morning, after a prolonged night's sleep, I woke up to a sour odor...

[Jazuela]

My cat ambush-attacks me at random moments. I'll be relaxed at the computer, or watching a movie with hubby in the sunroom, and out of nowhere - CHOMP - little pointy teeth clamped on my ankle. She also eats plastic bags, red cloth or plastics, and cardboard boxes. Her favorite though is mushroom pizza, especially when I'm holding a slice in my hand and just about to take a bite of it.

[Anebriated]

When I lived with my parents we had a cat who would pretty much follow me around when I was home. I had an empty shoebox one day and she jumped in and made it into a little fort by dragging things around it and into it. I ended up putting the shoebox on my desk and she would just sit there for hours with her head just over the edge of the box watching me play Gemstone or Dark Age of Camelot.

Now when I go home she starts meowing almost the instant I walk in. My parents say they always know when I am around because unless Im there the cats quiet.

[Skirmisher]

My one uncle used to have this bulldog that was aging and pretty much blind that loved to fall asleep on the edge of the couch.

Inevitably he would slip off the edge and fall to the floor.

The impact would wake him from his slumber and hed jump to his feet growling and spinning around in place looking to see what had hit him before like yawning and climbing back up onto the edge to repeat the performance later.

It was always quite amusing to me.

[CrystalTears]

My cat likes to sleep where it's warm, and in the computer room at present, there is a spare PC case sitting next to a heat vent. She sleeps on it sometimes. The problem is that she's wider than the case so... she's slipped off a couple of times from the case.

I just hear this thud and I look down and see her staring up at me dazed. She's a bit vain, so she gets all embarrassed when she falls, meows at me for snickering, even though I pet her to make sure she's okay, then she walks away.

[TheEschaton]

You know, CT, your avatar, with Metallica's Enter Sandman in the background, is something I could watch for hours. It's oddly synchronized.

-TheE-

[CrystalTears]

:lol: I'm probably never changing that avatar now.

I have lots of ferret stories, but it could just be regular ferret weirdness that I'm not aware of.

For example, he's obsessed with leather and plastic. I can't keep anything like that where has has access to or I'll lose it. He especially loves my wallet and cell phone cover. Good grief.

And he hides everything. I never had to wonder why someone would say, "ferretting away something" once he came along because that's dead on ferret behavior.

[zhelas]

Learned to look in the dryer every time I started it. CLUNK! CLUNK CLUNK! One dizzy cat comes out.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

My cat also runs into the bathroom to check the toilet EVERYTIME someone leaves. He drinks ALL standing water anywhere, including the toilet. Whenever he hears running water he comes running to see if the person leaves the leftover water uncovered/uncleaned, so he can drink it.

THe first time he met Mike's family he wriggled out of my arms and into the master bathroom and proceeded to drink enthusiastically from the toilet. It was quite the little entrance.

Sometimes he'll even drink from the tub (we have a drain problem so there's standing water when we're done), and he takes a few laps, looks up and meows like "ew this is so gross!", then continues to lap up more water. He's even fell in the water and it still doesn't detract him.

I love all of your pet stories too by the way :) Anyone who says animals don't have individual personalities have never owned a pet, haha.

[CrystalTears]

My cat is afraid of the water. Any water. She'll drink it from her bowl but that's it. When we shower, she cautiously walks in, meows in desperation, because to her, we're drowning, and doesn't leave until the water is turned off.

She's also kinda stupid in a cute cat way. She loves birds and will chirp as she watches. One day she got a bit too enthusiastic and we woke up the morning to a desperate yet quiet meow. She had climbed the window screen and her claws got stuck. She didn't want to admit she was stuck, but she was, so the meow was quiet yet steady. My husband had to get her down.

[zhelas]

Ever see a cat fly? One reason to keep the toilet seat down. TC came running into the bathroom, as a kitten, and jumped to sit on the toilet. Next thing I knew he was clinging to the towel 5 feet from the toilet.

[Jolena]

Oh my gosh where to start.. where to start! Over the years we've owned several pets, as my mother was imfamous for picking up every stray in sight and taking care of them until they died of old age somehow.

We had a calico cat when I was 7 that liked to hang upside down from the edge of the roof and press her face against the window to look in the house. Yes, she wrapped her paws around the edge and seriously dangled like a damned bat or something. She did that once to my mother during a storm, just as my mom opened the blinds, a crack of lightning went off, illuminating the window and outside and there my cat was, hanging upside down, looked very much like a dark wet rat because of the rain, and staring at her with wide yellow eyes. Scared the piss out of her, literally. I laughed for days on that one.

We had a siamese that ate french fries, cabbage, and sphaghetti (though not together). He would eat one end of the noodle while my mother had the other end in her mouth, like the scene from Lady and the Tramp, it was amazingly cute. He also would ride around on my mother's shoulder and anytime one of us was at shoulder height to him or bent over to pick up something, he'd jump on our back and climb his way up there to rest while we walked around.

We had a norwegian elkhound who loved to have large rocks thrown into the pond for him, where he'd run into the pond and bury his face underwater, digging and pulling at the rock until he got it out of the water and back onto shore, then he'd want to do it again. Go figure.

We also had a small, rat-looking dog who was so ugly that he was cute. He had a thing about flies for some reason. My aunt had a white sundress with black poka-dots on it and he thought they were flies. She spent the better part of every visit to us if she wore that dress, defending herself from the dog because he'd try to bite the dots from her dress, thinking they were flies.

Finally, but certainly not least, we had a very large tabby that loved watching football on tv. He would lay on top of the tv, watching the little football players run back and forth on the tv screen and bat at them with his paws, attempting to catch them.

[Kainen]

My mom and dad have a calico that adopted my dad.. who hates cats. Her name is Meow.. she'll run down the short walk to the garage and hook her claws into the mat in front of the door. Then ride the mat while it skids down the rest of the walk way.

[Hulkein]

I'm surprised at how many people here own cats.

[Celephais]

When I was a baby we got a cat, it was such an awesome cat for kids, because despite not being declawed it would never scratch or bite a person. Literally I would carry the cat around in a headlock, dragging it with me like a blanket, and she wasn't terrified of me or anything, if I wasn't carrying her she was following me. I'd get various dead animals in my room as presents... including a snake head, and she'd always sleep on me when I went to bed and get on my lap if I was sitting down.

The only time she ever swiped at me, I was playing around with one of those elasticy sticky hand toys (you know you hold the arm and swing it and it'll stick and pick things up and bounce back to you... http://www.bulktoystore.com/images/products/thumbs/91036.jpg), and I had it wrapped around my hand and I was acting like it was strangling my hand, and my cat took a swipe at my arm, and got a single claw between me and the rubbery hand thing (didn't even touch me), and had her claw so she was pulling it off me, I was quite impressed (it wasn't like I was sitting still, I was laying on the floor doing some serious kid twitching like it was killing me).

[Shari]

My min pin, cries at the doorway after Scott and I get done doing um...stuff.

I think he thinks Scott is hurting me because he just SO concerned and then when I get dressed he bolts up on the bed to make sure I'm okay.

He also bangs at his stainless steel food dish almost RIGHT at 5pm if you haven't fed him, or the water dish if its empty.

Both dogs like to fuck with us too on the feeding. Scott gets home before me and feeds them, and then leaves the house, they'll both bang at their food dish at me like they haven't been fed. And we used to both over feed them until we figured it out and now we have to call each other to make sure one hasn't fed them already.

[Olanan]

My puppy sleeps with his head off the edge of the couch.

...it really pisses him off when I give him a little scootch.

:rofl: Suicidal fish.

[Sylvan Dreams]

One of my cats is always within arm's reach of me. He answers to his name when I call him.

Another cat plays fetch and loves bread.

Another cat also plays fetch, toy-guards (in the fashion dogs food-guard), and likes to lick.

The fourth cat is a bit of a monkey and likes jumping onto tall areas. She also LOVES being in the basement and will make a mad dash for the door if it's being opened.

The fifth cat doesn't leave the bedroom. Ever. If you forcefully take her out of the room, she has a panic attack. Thankfully the master suite is large enough to accommodate a litterbox in an out-of-the-way area.

My large dog will herd animals that enter the yard. If a human being that she hasn't been introduced to enters the yard, she will go for a maiming or kill (never managed to find out for sure.)

My little dog (miniature dachshund) somehow manages to catch birds. Her legs are about 3 inches long. How in the fuck does she catch birds.

Both dogs only respond to commands from me.

[Aaysia]

My aunt lives next door so i'm almost always over there. Her cat taffy likes to play tarzan with the curtains. As soon as my aunt comes over my dog goes crazy. He barks at her and runs to the kitchen door, glances at the door pointedly and barks at her again like "get the hell out of here bitch, MY TURF!"

When she finally leaves, he stares under the door waiting for her shadow, and when she passes he attacks the door, biting and scratching like he's possessed. Our kitchen door is all pitted and scared up because of him. One time he bit into the door so hard his teeth got stuck and I had to pry it out.

[Alfster]

My girlfriend's cat will fight to lick my fingers after I have a smoke and if i leave a pack of smokes on the table, the cat usually finds a way to get through the packaging and eat the cigarettes.

[TheEschaton]

Well...nicotine IS addictive.

-TheE-

[Wezas]

My dog is the same way, loves to lick my step-mother's face on the rare occasion she visits. Eventually we found out it was because of the cigs.

[Olanan]

See avatar.

[Nieninque]

My cat is obsessed with boxes.
It doesnt need to be a real or a whole box, he will climb into it. If it is too small for him to climb into, he will sit on top of it.
Strange cat.

[Stanley Burrell]

Learned to look in the dryer every time I started it. CLUNK! CLUNK CLUNK! One dizzy cat comes out.

I can now admit to snort-laughter :-\

[Ignot]

Some weird/funny things my great dane does:

1) Fall off the bed
2) Raid my girlfriends panties, he doesnt want my underwear, just my girlfriends.
3) When I come home, he runs around the kitchen in a circle over and over
4) He is terrified of garbage bags
5) sits on the couch with his feet on the floor, sitting like a person

Anyone else have a great dane?

[Shari]

5) sits on the couch with his feet on the floor, sitting like a person


OMG, must post pics of that.

[Jolena]

Some weird/funny things my great dane does:

1) Fall off the bed
2) Raid my girlfriends panties, he doesnt want my underwear, just my girlfriends.
3) When I come home, he runs around the kitchen in a circle over and over
4) He is terrified of garbage bags
5) sits on the couch with his feet on the floor, sitting like a person

Anyone else have a great dane?

I had a great dane that did that as well. We named him 'puppy' stupidly enough, though it was adorable how huge he is and how small his name made him seem. He loved to sit on our couch with his feet on the floor. Awesome awesome dogs.

[ElanthianSiren]

My mom's dog will eat any human food; chili with habeneros, no problem. When I was young and he was a puppy, he got into her purse and ate a WHOLE pack of wintergreen gum, then promptly shit green everywhere for about 2 days.
They have a vacation house in the woods. House has three full length decks; one upstairs, two at ground level. If her dog hears something or sees someone walking outside, it has to run to EVERY deck, snarling and yapping for about an hour to make sure the threat has passed (shelties!). This also applies to deer.

My dog is very chilled out until strangers are involved. He doesn't like strange men (I think he was abused at one his previous rescue homes -- he had 2). He doesn't care much for kids either, and tends to give me this look like "Mummy! Little humans! AHH!!"; though he's never snapped or growled or in any way been aggressive with them, he goes VERY VERY still. He's pretty stubborn too. If he gets tired on his walks, he'll just sprawl across concrete. If he wants to go on a walk, he'll race me to the door, hoping to get out first, and I have to play Capture the Greyhound, which is one of his favorite games. He loves coconut rum and is the sole reason I keep a small bottle of coco-ribe in the house (4th of July).

-M

[Wezas]

My dog will *lean* on the couch, basically putting her entire body on the couch except for her paws which are still on the ground. As if to say "I'm totally not on the couch, look at the paws!"

Don't see how it's comfortable. She's too big to be invited on the couch anymore. It takes up an entire half of our L shaped couch.

[TheEschaton]

When I was young and he was a puppy, he got into her purse and ate a WHOLE pack of wintergreen gum, then promptly shit green everywhere for about 2 days.


This sounds like a hilarious thing to do on St. Patty's Day. I will keep it in mind...


"Look, even my dog is Irish!"

-TheE-

[Atlanteax]

"The Dog Whisper" Cesar Millan has a great show about how individuals can rehabilitate/train their dogs (as to stop undesired behavior), as well as get a better understanding of dog psychology.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

"The Dog Whisper" Cesar Millan has a great show about how individuals can rehabilitate/train their dogs (as to stop undesired behavior), as well as get a better understanding of dog psychology.

All I know is laughing at a dog hurts their self esteem.

[Sietzer]

My one cat crawls in boxes, and then closes the tops if they have any. I tried to get him out and he started swiping at me to stop from picking him up.

My other cat, is just evil. She refuses to drink from anything accept a glass cup that is placed on the table, and wont eat anything besides dog food from the bag. If anyone tries to move her, she attacks them.

[Killer Kitten]

My cat always insists upon climbing the highest thing she has access to. She was the first cat to discover the tops of doors, the top of the bookshelf, the top shelf in the closet, etc.

What makes it unusual is that she has no eyes. I have no idea if she uses sonar or spider sense to scale her little mountains, but she's always the first cat on top of anything new in the house.

[Shari]

Oh my god, poor kitty!

[Jennaen]

My dog likes to bury his bones. Not outside... he doesn't dig at all. However, he'll lay a bone down near a wall or piece of furniture, nudge it closer with his nose, and then proceed to nudge all around it like he's piling dirt over it with his nose. He gets miffed if I "discover" his burial.

He loves my dirty clothes, and will drag them around the house to lie on if he can get ahold of them. Dirty underwear is his favorite. Thankfully he doesn't chew them up, but perhaps more disturbing, he licks them until they are a sodden mass, and then lies on them.

He prefers the toilet water, even when I've just refilled his bowl with fresh cold water. He'll only drink out of his bowl when I leave the lid down on the toilet.

He has a thing for, um... feminine hygiene products. My bathroom trash has been permanently installed on the back of the toilet to keep him from dragging unsavory goodies around the house to shred.

Speaking of trash. He loves paper plates, plastic wrap, aluminum foil... anything that's had food on or in it that he can lick clean and then shred all over. Yay for tall trash cans with even taller flip lids.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

My cat always insists upon climbing the highest thing she has access to. She was the first cat to discover the tops of doors, the top of the bookshelf, the top shelf in the closet, etc.

What makes it unusual is that she has no eyes. I have no idea if she uses sonar or spider sense to scale her little mountains, but she's always the first cat on top of anything new in the house.

Your cat is so freaking adorable!