Weird or Cute pet habits...

[The Captain]

We've got a few pet threads going now, so why stop?

I currently have two cats.  One is a shelter kitty who, for some reason, LOVES the smell of my feet.

Seriously, the more *ahem* ripe, the better.  She rubs her face against them, lays on tops and rolls all over them, absolutely does everything she can to marinate her body in them.  It's like I've dipped them in catnip oil...   I've never had a pet do this before.

The other, older, one - has a very set routine.  DH gets up and makes me coffee in the morning.  (I'm told) she watches him and meows at him when he's not moving fast enough.  She them walks with him into our bedroom and only after he's set the coffee on my nightstand will she jump up on the bed for her 10-15 minutes of morning scritches and petting before I get up for work.

Any other cute/odd pet stories?

[Lizard King]

I wonder if kitty was donated by Quentin Tarantino...

[greeniis10]

We can't figure out if my son's Australian Blue Heeler can count or has OCD (or maybe both) but EVERY time she eats it's the same routine: picks up 3 pieces of food (kibbles) carries them to the kitchen rug, drops them, eats each individually and crunches each 3 times.  Three kibbles, three crunches, like clockwork, every time.  Strange, but overall she's happy and very well-behaved so we're just hoping she can count!

[Deleted]

Whenever she goes to a new place, my cat hisses her way around corners and through doorways.  She will be exploring her way, nice and quiet, but as soon as she gets near a corner or a door, she starts hissing and does not stop until she knows she is in the clear.  Once she has decided that no boogy men are going to jump out at her, she then goes up to each wall, stands up on her hind legs with her front feet against the wall, and flips her head over to view the room from upside down.  I have moved three times with her and it is still a hoot to watch.

[Bluerobin]

If the Beckster needs something, she will bug the heck outta Crabby.  When Crabby finally figures it out and gives it to her,  Beckster, will come over to me and thank me wilh a lick, etc. 

[MarleyKeezy78]

It's not cute but our gerbil has taken to biting my fingers as I clean his tank. Little shit. It is however cute watching him run around his habitat. 

[lexxy703]

My male cat has a strange fear of going in or out the door.  He likes to be outside & will cry to go out but then he sits there until he works up his nerve then takes a flying leap.  He does it entering the house too.

[wyouser]

We had a pommerpoo  for 18 years.  He would play ball all day if he could find anyone to throw a ball for him.  However the first 6 months we lived in our house he worked hard a becoming a master escape artist. His sole purpose in escaping was to get behind the house where a neighbor had a pen of quarterhorses. Once there he would snatch a nice green horseapple and try to get back into our house before anyone noticed.  The other habit he never outgrew was to learn NOT to challenge the black and white stripped puddy cats who occasionally graced our yard. One night around 2 am he had to go outside. A little later he barked wanting back inside. Well he was past me and 3/4 of the way to the bed room before the aroma hit me. I had no time to shout a warning before he jumped up on the bed right on top of my up to this point soundly sleeping wife. Naturally the whole town was immediately made aware of the situation by a bloodcurdling high pitched totally shocked scream.

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

LMAO! Those black and white striped "puddy tats" are stinky little devils, aren't they? No doubt their white stripe ran right down the middle of their back & tail.

Was one named Pepé Le Pew ?

[steff]

My Miss Tippi (RIP) would bang cabinet doors for canned cat food.  If that didn't work, then she would find where I had it stashed & would start knocking cans off the counters/out of the pantry/out of cabinets, until I gave in. 

My Miss Oreo cannot let me go to the bathroom by myself.  Some days she drives me crazy & I'll find myself trying to sneak to go pee without her.  Never works.  she has to walk around me as I go. 

Kiddo's doggie is scared of the dark.  he won't go outside at night without someone going with him.  He also won't go downstairs to the basement at night unless there is a light on.  Drives me CRAZY! 

Miss Oreo & I have a daily/morning routine.  I wake up & she's next to my head.  As soon as my feet hit the floor she's under them.  Then we have to go pee together.  Then I'm supposed to feed her before getting my morning dr pepper (I don't drink coffee).  If I don't feed her first, she'll walk around my ankles hissing & swiping at them with her paws.  If that doesn't get me to feed her, then she'll bring out the claws with her swipes at my ankles.

we used to have a big doggie when kiddo was little.  Mr Porter Waggers had some separation anxiety.  But only if I left the house.  We came home one time to find that he had eaten 1/2 the basement door & was sitting in the driveway waiting for me. When my brother kept him for a weekend, he ate 1/2 of one of his doors too.   Another time, he completely tore up carpet in the hallway while I was gone.  He & Miss Tippi were partners in crime when left alone.  we found a bread box that was on top of the refrigerator on the floor & basically the bread was gone, the bread box was turned into toothpicks.  She had to have knocked it down for him.  Another time we put him in the dog run & left for a few hours.  We tied a plastic 5 gallon bucket to the fence for his water.  when we came home, 90% of the bucket was gone.  Only part left was what was tied to the fence.  We never found any trace of the bucket.  he didn't like being left alone at all! 

Today I had to give Miss Oreo a dose of her kitty prozac because she & Miss Blue (the huge doggie) had an encounter on the stairs today & she's beating up on kiddo's doggie because of it.  She's now (still very angry), but is sitting in a chair, swaying back and forth with a drugged dazed look on her face.  But still hissing anytime anyone walks by her. 

[kittensaver]

My seven month old male kitten loves to steal the feather duster out of the cleaning tote. He LOVES that thing . . . as in, loves in an unhealthy way. He will pull it out and run away, then flop on top of it and snuggle in a bizarre manner (ehem). (Yes, he's fixed.) He's even had the nerve to growl at me when I tried to take it away from him.

[steff]

Feb 27, 2014 16:27:16 GMT -5 kittensaver said:

My seven month old male kitten loves to steal the feather duster out of the cleaning tote. He LOVES that thing . . . as in, loves in an unhealthy way. He will pull it out and run away, then flop on top of it and snuggle in a bizarre manner (ehem). (Yes, he's fixed.) He's even had the nerve to growl at me when I tried to take it away from him.

Miss Tippi had a love affair with a makeup brush.  We called it her boyfriend.  She would howl like she was in heat whenever she found it. 

Before we had Oreo fixed, when she would go into heat, my hubby called her Whoreo. 

[kittensaver]

Too funny steff!

[sesfw]

Hunter kitty is a long hair Persian and he has long tuffs of hair growing between the pads on his paws.  With our tile floor he can't get traction.  He will run down the hall after us and try to put on brakes before he slams into linen closet.  Now he turns his body so his tail hits the door instead of his head.  He is learning.

One kitty several kitties ago loved to sleep on the top of bookcase, and had the stupidest look on her face when she landed on the floor still asleep.

[steff]

Oh! My aunt had a cat that was scared of ceiling fans.  He would duck & crawl across the room if the ceiling fan was on.  He was also the cat that couldn't climb.  One day in the backyard, he & his brother were running around & his brother jumped up on the wooden fence.  Poor Asia comes lumbering across the yard, does a flying leap and turns into Sylvester the cat.  He slams face first into the fence & then slowly slides down it.  My aunt & I were laughing so hard we had tears flowing.  He was a loveable but dumb as a stump kitty. 

[moon/Laura]

our male siamese, Max, loves to play fetch. He needs to do it more often because he's... umm. large. I call him Maximus Catimus.

His sister, Snowflake, LOVES my son. She will hop up wherever my son is, meowing frantically, wanting what my son calls "licky time". she will hold his head in place with her paws, and groom him. she continues the meows while she does it, and for heaven's sake, he'd better not move until she's had enough! it's hilarious....

[cael]

My kitty is pretty cray cray, let me see. She HAS to, at least once every night and sometimes in the morning, curl up on my pillow and knead on my head in my hair. I have to be turned the right way too, if I'm laying the wrong way forget it. She drinks my water and licks my froyo if I put it on the coffee table within her reach. She purposely skids around on the hard floor in the bathroom to have fun and spooks herself (we have carpet in the rest of the place). If she hears sounds coming from our phones, like a video or a facetime call, if it's loud and/or high-pitched enough she comes over and bites the phone and tries to take it away from us. She seat beats DH to his rocking chair every.single.day and sits meowing pathetically at him to get up if he's in it and she wants it. She's absolutely hilarious when she runs around and plays - she gallops all across the apartment like a mad woman, tosses her toys around, she's so funny. Oh, and she also has a half a tail with a little poof on the end, which makes her even cuter.  love this cat to death!!

[Spellbound454]

We can't figure out if my son's Australian Blue Heeler can count or has OCD (or maybe both) but EVERY time she eats it's the same routine: picks up 3 pieces of food (kibbles) carries them to the kitchen rug, drops them, eats each individually and crunches each 3 times. Three kibbles, three crunches, like clockwork, every time. Strange, but overall she's happy and very well-behaved so we're just hoping she can count!

My old dog used to do this......back and forth to the living room rug, crunch, check for crumbs. 
Used to take her ages to eat her meal.

Her cute thing was that she used to wink at me.....  (probably something wrong with her eye)

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

These have all been my past (or present) feline fur-baby experiences - first with "Max", and now with "Jake" - turn on speakers.


The third one is definitely "Jake" - I can't sit down to the computer without him wanting to block the monitor, try and fiddle with wires, etc

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

[Icelandic Woman]

LMAO! Love all the stories.

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Our 12 week old puppy will not drink plain water.

If I add water to his food, he will drink THAT water first, and then eat the food.

But, plain water in a bowl goes completely untouched.  Maybe I should add a slice of lemon or lime to it.  

He also has a fascination with the cushioned inserts in shoes and boots.  He will work and work at pulling it out -- sometimes completely upside down, head completely submerged into the boot -- until he gets it free and can pull it out of the shoe or boot.  He then discards it and moves on to a new shoe or boot.  

He also likes to collect all of his toys (and the things HE considers toys but are really socks and gloves and shoes) and place them all on a very cushioned, bone-shaped, mat we bought him for our stone floor in the family room.  If we move any of those items off of the mat, he will find it and bring it back.  

EACH and EVERY time he goes outside, he brings a rock, a leaf, a stick, a chunk of ice, a pine needle in in his mouth.  EACH and EVERY time.  I like to think that is the Retriever in him.  

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

Your dog's a hoarder.

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

[Spellbound454]

My pup had a go at the Christmas tree this year. She was covered in silver glitter.
I was brushing sparkles out of her long black fur for a week.

[MarleyKeezy78]

Discovered today that Muffin our gerbil lays on his back in the tunnel with the dome on the end and looks like he is furiously running nowhere, lol!!! I gave him a treat and after he went right back to his upside down marathon 

[sparks2710]

Our cat follows me into the bathroom each and every time I go and then he rubs against my legs until I pet him.

He also knows every time I pour cereal. I could pour different things into a bowl but the minute I pour cereal he comes running. Then he patiently waits while I eat it hoping I will share my milk when I am done.

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

My cat does that too, sparks - which is probably my fault. When he was a wee kitten, I was eating my cereal, then put the bowl on the floor for him to lick up the milk that was left in the bowl. Now I can't even pour the cereal into the bowl before he jumps up the table waiting for me to add the white goodness he craves.

Same with eggs - I literally have to lock him in the bedroom or den so I can eat my meals in peace.

[truthbound]

I have a male Balinese. He has a Siamese girlfriend. Even though he is fixed he still tries to mount her at least once a day. It is hilarious because he latches onto her neck but of course nothing happens. So he just stands there looking confused.

[weltschmerz]

Sushi the Demon Cat from the Seventh Circle of Hell eats everything that isn't nailed down.....boiled cabbage, date squares, pesto, you name it. Last night he ate the strings that are tied around a store-bought BBQ chicken. I don't think it's cute at all.