CONFESS!!!! What are your pets bizarre habits

[LynneSin]

What bizarre thing do your pets do that make you scratch your head in wonder.

Abbott is pretty run of the mill when it comes to cats. He doesn't do anything unusual except I think he's part dog when it comes to greeting me when I get home from work.

Evita, on the other hand, is getting stranger by the day. Her new bizarre habit is when she wants cuddle time from me. THe only time she approaches me and demands I pet & play with her - is when I'm sitting on the toilet. And she gets upset if I ignore her. I'm trying to get her to be more friendlier, but can't she be like Abbott and wake me up in bed???!!!!

What are your pets strange behaviors??

[trag]

1. My dog thinks he is a cat.

He leaps from place to place. He can leap from the floor to the top of my pool table. He walks in between my legs just like my old cat did. Sometimes he just takes off running for 30 minutes nonstop through the house like he is chasing something that's not there. He is funny.

[meegbear]

2. When I drive home ....

as I am parking my car, my cat Max will jump on the hood and up to the roof and sit there while I finish parking.

When I get out of the car, he's face to face with me purring.

[TNDemo]

3. My old basset mix (may she rest in peace)

used to go down the street to the neighbors to annoy their cat. It was a daily ritual and when our dog got too old to go the cat kinda was lonely. Just to tick the cat off she would straddle its litter box and poop in it.

We had a Boston Terrier growing that was approaching psycho. She would eat anything - pickles, lettuce. She also had to blow the ashes out of any ash tray of my father's. She had to be covered head to toe when sleeping and would wake me up during the night if the cover moved. When going to bed I would call her to come get in her bed and if I covered her up while she was still standing she would throw up in her bed. I had to wait until she laid down or I would be cleaning up. Also if she had to throw up she would run through the house to get to her bed to puke in.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Jessie goes nuts for toilet flushing. If you go near the bathroom there

she is, waiting for you to flush. Then she sticks her face right in there and watches the swirling and bounces up and down. She will cry outside the door if you don't let her in. :hi:

[demnan]

5. The list could go on for miles

Pad Thai has long been a proponent of "toilet love". He jumps on the toilet first and makes me pick him up. Then he jumps up on my shoulders and purrs and rubs my face.

When I come home from work he jumps on the bookshelf so he can jump on my shoulders. He also cries pretty loud. This cat is clingy. He likes to walk between my feet when I'm doing something like cleaning out the closet. He also inspects the plants when I water them. When I sit on the sofa he comes up and lies on me and falls asleep. When I open the apartment door to take the laundry down to the laundry room he follows me and likes to go into the laundry room with me.

A friend describes him as having "separation anxiety" but I think it's because he moved around alot when little and spent time in a pet store so when he finally got his forever Mommy he won't let me out of his sight.

[LWolf]

6. Nothing too bizarre.

Lucy the tomcat thinks he is a guard dog. He growls at people walking down the street and thinks it is his personal duty to attack any strange animal that breaches the fence/gate.

Willow the she-kitty doesn't do laps; she prefers the back of the chair behind my head. Except when she joins me in bed. She will only sleep in one spot. The comfy, cozy "lap" where my legs join my torso.

Rain the dog likes to cool down on our long weekend trail rides by immersing herself in a local pond. It's a brilliant green color, with deep black mud underneath. She wades in, sits down, and just sits there, nothing but her head above the water line. Eventually comes out covered in slimy black mud. She then throws herself into every bush on the way back to roll and remove the mud.

Rain also likes to play with one of my two hens. She knows she is not supposed to. But she will if she thinks I'm not watching. I've caught her standing over the hen, looking down at her and "bathing" her thoroughly. The other day, instead of her usual "herding," she placed her mouth very gently on the hens upper wing and "walked" her like she was on a leash. Gently, without leaving a scratch. The bizarre part of this is that the hen allows it without any sort of fuss. She'll fuss at anyone else who messes with her.

[tandot]

7. my cat Tommy sits on the toilet seat and plays with the water

if we don't close the lid. He leaves a wet toilet seat with his paw prints behind.

He also shreds the toilet paper into pieces.

[non sociopath skin]

8. All three of our house bunnies are characters ...

... but T-Bone is the wildest and wierdest.

When he wants to be fed, he does the "pellet dance," running round and round me in circles and then standing on his hind legs, occasionally rattling his bowl for attention.

He also has a hollow rubber ball which we put fruit inside and which he wheels around the room. He loves music and when I play a CD he goes under the stand where the stereo is and crashes out.

The Skin

[Supormom]

9. Our 100 lb black lab thinks he is a lap dog.

When you are sitting in a chair he backs up on sits on your lap. Doesn't even have to jump!

[Richardo]

10. My sister-in-law's Rat Terrier pleasures herself...

Sits down, puts a paw in the right spot, and goes to town. All with a very apologetic look on her face. :eyes:

[LynneSin]

14. Abbott does the same thing

Well, he doesn't get hard-ons anymore but he still tries to lick that area for some bizarre reason

[woofless]

11. Tia is a 5lb. Teacup Chihuahua bitch.

Sammy is a 15lb. Chihuahua/Cocker Spaniel male. Tia is always humping Sammy. Go figure.

[Cheswick2.0]

12. My Cat Moo

otherwise known as Schmooze gets frantic every night if I am not in bed at 10:30 so he can climb all over me. He has to get his daily fix of putting his head under my arm and kneeding me till I am bruised.

My other cat LillyPoo has to drag his water dish across the kitchen floor before he will drink out of it. His water must be moving or he won't drink.

They both cry every morning if I don't put fresh food in their dish. Even if the dish is almost full, they have to see me put new food in it or they are neglected and sorrowful.

[underpants]

13. My cat opens my drawers, the oven, the closets and drew a bath

Oh and she hangs upside down on the climbing post.

[iconoclastic cat]

15. Licking plastic tampon wrappers

Seriously. I am often awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of our cat Moo's tounge slurping away on a tampon wrapper (a new, unopened one, of course). He sometimes does this with plastic grocery bags, too.

(in our case, Moo is short for Mooius).

[Kazak]

20. I don't know what it is with cats and plastic wrappers, but...

I've known several that could not let them be. :shrug:

[MissMillie]

16. Cosmo is my weirdo

He likes to play in the toilet. He also likes to crawl under the quilt on my bed and sleep. And when I feed him, he will take a piece of kibble and bat it around the room for a while before he eats it.

Siouxsie is the queen of the head-butt. She will come into my room at night and head-butt my hands until I pet her. And she doesn't care what time it is. And if you try to thwart her by putting your hands under the covers, she'll head-butt you in the shoulder, or back, or foot.....

[bearfan454]

17. Well I have a retarded Japanese Spitz. He is all white.

His name is Glacier. He likes to pee in his water bowl and then drink it. Needless to say he is an outside dog. I just gave both him and my miniature German Sheppard, Charlie, a haircut yesterday. Glacier wouldn't sit still so now he looks like a bad rug. I had to get Charlie in a headlock. He has a flattop now. Mrs bearfan walked outside and said OMG ! We both laughed our asses off. At least they are cooler now.

[hlthe2b]

18. Since she was a pup, my Aussie/Lab mix, "Tallulah"

has had a fixation with all things tupperwear, and loved to grab a (full) bowl of water, potato salad, or whatever and run around happy as you please, with people chasing her trying to get it back. I never could take her to picnics.

Now, she's progressed to grabbing the FULL gallon jugs of water people bring to the dog parks and running off with it, in large circles around the amazed human audience. Now, since a gallon of water weights 8.33 pounds (I had to look it up, so believe it), and she's a medium sized dog, this is quite the trick. Occasionally someone gets peeved, when a jug gets punctured, but most people are (fortunately)just amused. She has this childish look of joy on her face-- quite proud of her own naughtiness.

The one thing she did as a pup, (that I should have encouraged) was to grab purses left sitting beside unwitting victims at the neighborhood park--until they started cracking down on leash laws. Somehow, I don't believe the startled owners quite believed that I hadn't trained her to do so!

[Kazak]

19. Our Kitty, Julia...

has taken to pissing on the rug in the bathroom, not three feet from her litterbox... Grrr...