What's THE weirdest thing your pet does?

[Cuban_Liberal]

We have a cat who will lick your knees 'dry' when you get out of the shower or bath--- just the knees, but nothing else.

:shrug:

[fluffernutter]

1. my brother's dog does that to toes. only toes.

not the rest of the foot, it's so funny.

my dog doesn't go up to his food bowl to eat, he stops way back from the bowl and stretches waaaaay out, takes one chunk of food, goes to the carpet to eat it and repeat until bowl is clean.

weirdo.

[Bok_Tukalo]

6. After getting onto my dog for scratching her butt on the carpet

she turns and growls at the carpet (like it's the carpet's fault).

[fluffernutter]

14. rotfl! sounds like a typical kid, too cute.

[tnlefty]

2. I have a neutered (for quite some time) older male cat who tries

to have sex with one's feet!

[Lorien]

21. My neutered cat Oberon is a "Plushie"

I have a life sized plush Bernese mountain dog near the front door (I have a glass front door with a sheer curtain over it; from the porch, it looks like the dog is listening and ready to jump to it's feet to defend the property). Oberon loves the plush a little *too* much; he often has black polyester fur stuck between his toes. I have a female cat (Puck), but he's not interested in her. Maybe he has a secret desire to attend furry conventions?

[Catshrink]

3. My dog digs in the litter box for "treats"

I never knew dogs ate cat poop until I got Bratwurst. Brat likes to lick my ankles dry after a shower, too.

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5. Before or after he digs for treats?

"Brat likes to lick my ankles dry after a shower, too." :)

[Catshrink]

7. Thta's the disgusting part!

I've got to keep the litter box very clean. How else do I know he hasn't just chewed some cat poop before he washes my face? Gag. Dogs are so gross.

[fluffernutter]

16. Bratwurst, what a great name! is he a dachshund?

[Catshrink]

51. Doxie he is!

[OhioBlue]

4. not really weird - but so funny

my cat is amazed with the fish tank and it is so cute to watch her puzzled looks wondering how they float and why she can't touch them.

[Misunderestimator]

8. My cat will come from nowhere if you cut into a cantaloupe

and he also likes cucumbers and tomatoes. I once had a cat who loved popcorn, but this one won't touch it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Silly cat puts his toys in my shoes.

And jumps into the bathtub and stands ankle deep in the warm, soapy water and drinks it.

[eoberhauser]

10. My cat won't drink out of his water dish

He will only drink out of a floating candle holder on our table in the living room. I've since removed the candles, but it still has the loose stones in the bottom. It's so cute!

Erin

[El Fuego]

11. My kitty loves to smell shoes

She'll lay for hours on a pair of shoes just to inhale the intoxicating aroma!

[MichiganVote]

12. My cat Patch spars with the automatic kitty box.

Everytime he uses the box and the automatic arm comes down to scoop through the litter, he gets next to the box, growls, and bats at it until it quits. Very intimidating that box.

[MuseRider]

13. I used to have a dog

that stood on his front legs to, ummmmmm, poop.

[Dookus]

19. hehe

I just saw that same thing last week. I was watching my neighbor's rat terrier for a week, and the little guy would do a handstand to poop. It was very funny.

My dog does a lot of weird things, but his latest is barking crazily at the telescope that's been in my dining room ever since he arrived here. It's right across from his crate, in fact - he's seen it every day of his life. But last week my bf was carrying it outside (we were looking for the comet Machholz) and the dog must've thought it was attacking him or something. Now every time he walks through the dining room, he barks at the telescope.

[MuseRider]

23. That nasty telescope!

Funny about the Rat Terrier. Mine was a Norwegian Elkhound. The vet told me it was a dominance thing since he would try to do it to the other dogs, poop on their heads if they didn't wake up and move. The lower part of our fence was covered and all the decorative boulders in the neighborhood had to be cleaned up after we walked him. It was really very funny and very strange. I had never heard of another dog doing it.

Did you find Machholz? My husband has been watching it but I have not tried yet. Should be visable soon without even a scope.

[Dookus]

27. Yeah

we were able to find it (well my bf found it - he gets the credit) but it really wasn't much to see. Just a big blur.

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15. My Senegal Parrot..

stares at the ceiling (transfixed as if under a spell), at things that aren't even there (I least I can't see anything).

One other thing he does is he'll take the empty shell of a roasted peanut
(he does this by making a small opening in the shell and extracts the peanut), then he'll take the shell, drop it in his water cup so that the shell is filled with water, then carefully carry it up to his favorite perching spot and using one foot, drink from it like it was a cup or glass.

Here he is with one of his favorite foods... a grape.

[Misunderestimator]

20. Aw... how cute!

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50. He can be...

When he wants to. Most of the time he's a screeching, demanding PITA. :7

[HEyHEY]

17. Eat's other people's pets?

[Nikia]

18. A few different weird things

He makes snow angels in the snow several times when we go for a walk when it had snowed. He humps stuffed animals. He also growls and barks at bugs, both on the ground and flying.

[Jamastiene]

22. My cat, Yogi, attacks my shoes

when I take them off. I think he sees them as his enemies because he hates it when I leave the house. He only attacks the shoes after I take them off. I can tell he really hates my shoes.

[Bat Boy]

24. Anyone else have a bag licker?

Our cat Siegfried (aka You Fat Bastard) loves when we bring groceries home in plastic bags. He'll spend hours, and I mean hours, licking the bags and purring up a storm.

There is some speculation that Siegfried may be retarded.

[steely]

39. I had a cat (past tense) that would lick grocery bags too!!!

But they had to be the thin - what I call "dry" plastic variety.
I don't know the chemical name for the plastic, it's not shiny / kind of has a flat finish - I was scraed and would hide them lest she chomped and swallowed a piece.

[Donailin]

25. Bob freaks out at the rustle of paper or plastic bags

He hauls ass at the mere whisper of plastic

[flamingyouth]

26. You'll have to ask Fenris about my cat Papa

I don't even know where to begin about Papa. But I'll start with the fact that he has only two teeth and a (fixed) hernia. :D

[MuseRider]

30. That just sounds like

a story for a book. Do tell.

[Fenris]

47. Papa is sexually attracted to me.

I can't help it.

[Xipe Totec]

28. Lace no longer lives, but...

She used to wait for us to leave the house. She would poke her head through the blinds and watch the car pull out of the driveway. Then she would bolt for the clothes hamper, pull our clothes out one by one, and drag them all over the house. We caught her several times by turning around and coming back to the house. We would catch her in the middle of the hallway with a garment in her mouth and a look of total surprise in her face. She would drop the garment and run under the bed in what appeared to be total embarrassment.

Lace lived to be 18 years old before she passed away. That was twelve years ago and my wife, kids and I still remember and miss her.

(On edit)

Lace was a white long haired Angora that my wife rescued when she was a kitten. She named her Lace after the projet she worked on at NASA, the Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment.

[Dookus]

29. My cat, Rudy

now over two years old, still sucks on my left earlobe at every opportunity. He just LOVES it.... would do it for hours if I let him.

[InvisibleTouch]

31. Dreams out loud.

My big dog often talks in her sleep, and it's the funniest sound - like blowing bubbles. Sometimes preceded by a growl. "Bloop ... bloop-bloop .... bloop-bloop-bloop ..... grrrrrrr-bloop!"

And what's even weirder, is that my little dog has started to do the same thing - after dreaming in perfect silence for almost 15 years. Maybe they're sharing dreams? :)

[kwassa]

32. A cat that unrolls the toilet paper over the catbox, and

creates a nice back and forth pattern over the box, sitting next to the toilet in the bathroom. The great sight is the cat sitting on her hind legs and using the toilet roll like a treadmill, spinning off the toilet paper.

The other cat would also dry me off, only on the shins, after I got out of the shower.

These are posthumous honors of two late great felines who have now shuffled off this mortal coil.

The current cats pose in cheesecake fashion on the rug in the bedroom, arching their backs artistically, hooking their claws into the rug while lying on their sides, and pulling themselves along the rugs, if not given sufficient attention. One of the cat will tap me on the face if I am not quick enough in giving her attention.

[kwassa]

45. and the cat who slept with his head inside shoes, with his paws wrapped

around the shoe like it was his girlfriend.

[steely]

33. My sisters' cat gave good "ear".

Ha ha ha ha - it actually would suck on your ear lobe.

on edit: oops, just saw Mr Dookus' post 29 above.

[MuseRider]

34. I have a funny horse story.

One of my horses has to be one of the smartest horses I have even known. He thinks about things and makes plans. He used to bust out of my dry lot by pushing the vinyl slats out, skinny under the electric wire and go into the pasture that was not for horses. Every day I would catch him and bring him in (he was never unhappy about being caught) and fix the fence. It was a game for him. The other horses would never go out, thankfully. I fixed the fence with an extra strand of electric wire through the middle. SO every day after that I would come out to find the middle slats out but all the horses in the lot. One cool, rainy day I found him in his stall but he was steaming and breathing a bit hard. I looked around and found that he had indeed been out, I followed his tracks all over the farm and at one point they got farther apart and deeper as if he had been running. Turns out he was getting out between the electric wires and running back in when he heard my truck coming up the road. Horses normally do not think like that, he amazes me every day with something.

[Cadence]

35. My dog likes to hang out in the empty bathtub.

When I'm getting ready in the morning my dog will come running from the other room and fly past me to go look in the bathtub. Like he was thinking about it in the other room. Then he sits down and stares at me until I put him in. He hangs out in there for like five minutes and then does one bark to let me know he's done.
Once I got in with him and said "o.k. what are we doing?" He just looked at me like mom, you're totally fucking up my groove. I had to leave.
:shrug:

[B Calm]

36. My sons Yellow Lab runs to the bathroom anytime she hears

the toliet bowl flush. She loves to stick her head in the bowl and watch the water go around and around..

[A-Schwarzenegger]

37. Tucks moths in between his gum and his cheek

like chewing tobacoo. Rolls up in a hay like cube.
Sucks out See's candy from the bottom then puts
the empty shell back in box. Incessantly watches
guests from top of TV without blinking.
Spells out HELP! on the roof with his poop. Etc.

[barackmyworld]

38. my cat separated the colors of cat food

and then he would scoop them up in his paw, moisten them in his water dish, and eat them with his paws. It was adorable!

[JusticeForAll]

40. I'm a bit concerned with my cat's odd behavior...

She attacks herself in the mirror. She growls and fights and pounces with this "inanimate" object.

It isn't just mirrors either - anything that will show her reflection, including her water dish is fair game for a scuffle.

Lately I have come home and found water all over the place because of her need to fend off the waterdish 'intruder'.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

42. Monty really isn't weird

Simba, however...he loves to lick plastic bags, especially in the mornings when he's waiting for food. He drops his toys in my shoes. He has some weird behavior in the mornings like his tongue is stuck to the top of his mouth; he'll cock his head to the side and go to town like he's trying to get his tongue unstuck. He only does it in the mornings. Very strange little cat. He's not dehydrated; his food and water intake are normal.

[madison2000]

41. My dog spelled "I MISS YOU" in large milkbones

I just went back to work today after being unemployed for a few months. My dog got used to 24 hour a day companionship so I am sure this was a hard day for him. He has access to food and water all day, and he's not a pig, so I don't worry about him pigging out.

Today when I came home there were about 25 bones spread out all over the room with no more than a little nibble taken from each one. I guess he was trying to tell me he missed me today. :hug:

[alarimer]

43. My cat sleeps on top of the television

He loves it up there. I have no idea why. He also likes to drink out of the bathroom faucet. He loves plastic grocery bags and will walk around with one handle around his neck all day long if I let him. I take it off because I don't want him to choke. He will also drag my ckothes all over the apartment if I leave them on the floor. Whenver anything disappears I blame the cat.

[hyphenate]

44. My little Kira

used to hop on my shoulder when I got out of the shower and lick my hair. She would do it only when I had on a bathrobe or a towel, too. She was a tiny little thing and her tongue was small, and she used to tickle my ear.

She loved my fleece robe in general, too. She used to climb onto my shoulder and sleep on me on the lapel.


My Jessica loves to eat salad, especially dressing. The Catalina, specifically. Then again, she loves whipped cream, but I think most cats do.

[vixengrl]

46. I've got this goldfish, a lionhead--Fortie, and he's a little different.

We got him after seeing him in the pet store all the time--he has only one eye, so he wasn't getting *adopted*. After about a month or so, I had to adopt him. I was calling him Mr. Peeper at that point, but that wasn't very nice, so we had to come up with a new name. Anyways, he has this chubby little body and short little fins. So we named him Fortunato. (After the joke--what do you call a dog with three legs, one eye and no tail? Lucky--sick joke, but he *looks* like a fish with a sense of humor--it's part of his charm.)

So we have this fish for a while, and he develops a *crush* on the filter tube. It's not the strangest thing--after all, it's an intake tube, and provides what might be described as a "continuous gentle suction." Which I'm sure is very pleasant--at first. In the beginning, it was just an occasional thing--backing his tail up to the tube. But then he went whole hog and spent a day there while Hubby and I were at work. When we got home--Fish-hickey-City. Poor little bugger *suffered* for love. And we couldn't keep him away from it. Eventually, we made a filter tube "condom" out of a kind of felt-like filter padding. But he hasn't been the same since. Sometimes he snuggles against the padding like he's lonely for his love.

Also, the one eyes he has--doesn't seem to see very well. So he cruises around for food on his side. It looks very wrong to people seeing it for the first time--but he makes out all right. He's a plucky kid.

[rox63]

48. One of my cats is a clean freak

She will pin my other cat down and forcibly clean her ears.

My Mom has a cat that won't step into the litter box. Instead she squats balanced on the edges to poop. Then she will stick one paw into the box to cover up what she left.

[yorkiemommie1]

49. Cubby my big yorkie

takes a toy out in the yard every time he goes pottie. He never brings them back in though!

[latebloomer]

52. my adorable kitten

stands transfixed in front of the computer, craning his neck and watching intently as if it were playing an Academy Award-winning flick. He especially likes it when you change windows. He loves it when you make the cursor zip back and forth across the screen, so his little head goes back and forth. Sometimes he meows if he doesn't get enough cursor action.

One of his less endearing traits-- using the bathtub-- and the bathroom rug-- as a litter box.

[proud patriot]

53. My golden retriever Purrs

He started purring after Jake our beloved
Cat died 2 years ago .

[MuseRider]

55. Same here.

Funny. Phoebe, our Golden does too and so did the one before her. It must be something in the breed. She was just purring for me to throw her some popcorn.

[cags]

54. I had a cat that would suck on peoples chests and hands

[donheld]

56. Eating junk food

I think my cat begging for Chips and snack crackers is quite strange.

[Mist]

57. I had a cat who loved napping in a clean litter box

[American Tragedy]

58. My aunt had a male dachshund named Schnapps

who would often become rather obviously aroused when he would meet new people. My aunt, who found this appalling, would snap at him, "Schnapps, you better check it!" Schnapps would turn his head down to his own erection and growl ferociously at it!

[Pied Piper]

59. Two summers ago, I adopted two kittens

They are both all-black females from the same litter. Someday I'll post pics of them.

Anyway:

1. Miranda is absolutely in love with the humidifier. She camps out in front of it all day long. One of my friends thinks that the motor reminds her of her mother's purr. She has discovered that when she covers one of the vents with her paw, the motor changes pitch. She experiments with covering one or both of the vents to change the motor's sound. When the tank makes a gurgle, she comes to full attention and starts scratching on the tank. She also spins the whole thing around until the electric cord is strecthed tight.

2. When I open the shower curtain, Minerva is always standing on the toilet - she needs to sniff me to make sure that I am properly clean.

3. Neither of my girls let me in the bathroom unattended; I've learned to shut the door. However, in their early days with me, I went in to pee, and after I raised the lid, I heard one of them coming to check up on me. Well, I had previously given another cat a good dousing (an accident, I promise you!), so I just stood waiting. Miranda came running in, and jumped up on what she thought was a covered toilet, but landed, SPLASH!, in the middle of the bowl. Oops! I meant to do that...

[yellowcanine]

60. Cat perches on the ring and drinks out of the toilet bowl. I don't know

how she keeps from falling in. I try to remember to put the lid down for her own protection.