OT: When our pets do funny/weird things.

[frannie]

when my dog got older he slept a lot.  one morning i came downstairs and found that he had knocked over the garbage can and gone through the contents.  this was a pretty common thing for him to do as well.  the only difference was that this time, while he had his head in the can,  he decided to take a nap.

[Flangepart]

My friends Barb and Steve hav had lots of animals over the years.
Besides the Dalmation who figured out how to masterbait with his foot.....
They had an English Mastiff once. Named Spock.
Once Barb was sourting out some grapefruit, and Spock was sitting there, just watching , and she laid a grapefruit on the floor, and told him, "Now, you watch that for me, so no one takes it, okey?" and she went on sorteing.
She turns round to find the grapefruit, and can't find it.
"Where is that thing?" she said, and Spock proceded to open his mouth, and there it was! She laughed. Said she thinks he took her literaly, and "Protected the grapefruit" as ordered!

[Scott]

Dear Abbey:

My dog is a Japanese Chin. I'm sure most dogs to this to some degree. When he gets something he likes he wants to bury it in his (indoor) sleeping area. Pawing the area intensly for a couple minutes. Many times I have taken him aside and had a serious one on one talk with him, but nothing I say seems to help. He never gets anywhere with his pawing and he persist in doing it. Maybe he should get professional help.

He is strickly an indoor dog and dosn't like to get his tootsies wet. Going out only to use the bathroom then hurrying back in. He likes his walks and drives and is a great companion dog, but he starts wimpering when he can't find a place to put his stuff.

[Scott]

We once had a cat named Kitty. She would catch a mouse outside and when she wanted to come in she would bring the dreaded thing into the house. She was so proud and wanted to show us.

She also did this sliding thing under the bed. She would lay on her back on the floor and use her claws on the bottom of the bed and drag herself back and forth across the floor. Quite a sight.

Once we had a nieghbor who came over to our house on their horse. It was big and the cat had never seen a horse before and couldn't believe it's eyes. I bet she thought it was a colosso mouse. The terror on her face, but she couldn't take her eyes of the horse eithier.

Ever notice some animals see things we can't see. Especially cats.

[Ellie]

About three years ago we lived in an apartment that I'd swear was haunted. My cats Kearah and Mini-me would sit above my head on the bed and hiss at something in the doorway. I'd be sitting there watching TV when I could have sworn someone walked in. I had heard the footfalls on the shag carpet. When I turned no one was there. Made the hair stand up on my neck(Back of). Freaky.

[The Burgomaster]

I feel bad.  I'm usually the one who does funny/weird things.  My dogs are the normal ones.

[jay]

my brother use to race camal and this one camal use to like driking beer and one time my brother had so of he's mate over and they were drinking and throwing the emty cans out the door to the camal. the camal would pick the cans up in its mouth and crash the cans to get every last drop out of the cans and they were doing this all day. at the end of the day the camal was running around and around the house looking for more cans because it was drank

[Mr. Hockstatter]

Whenever I make the bed, my cat Scooter jumps on it and tries to dig a hole through it.  He's declawed, so he just rubs his paws across it really fast.  He also hates it when I fold clothes.  He normally never gets mad (he's never growled or hissed in the 3 years I've had him), but folding clothes just really p**ses him off for some reason.  He sits on a shirt or something that I'm in the middle of folding, and when I move him off, he starts attacking me.  But it's real bites (not just his usual playful love bites) when I'm folding clothes.  So I put the laundry basket on top of him and he pushes it around the top of the bed, paws coming out the sides trying to grab me.  He must like that game, because as soon as I'm done and walk away, he's out from under the basket in two seconds and following me around the house, looking for some new mischief to get into.

[George]

Here in Cincinnati the dogs and cats are going nuts for..................CICADAS!!

Apparently they love the taste.  Funny stuff.