Really odd pet behaviors

BlunderWoman

BlunderWoman

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I used to be all ready to take a bath and I would sit in the tub only to discover my bathtub plug had been taken out of my bathroom and moved to the other bathroom my kids used. I only had one daughter still living with me at the time so I told her " Please put my bathtub plug back in my bathroom when you are finished with it because I don't like to have to get re-dressed to go search for it." She said " Mom, I never touch your bathtub plug because I only take showers." So I told her " Oh c'mon are you trying to tell me that plug just grows legs and walks itself into your tub again and again? I can't see why you think you need to lie about a stupid thing like this."


Then one day..

I'm in my room on my bed reading and I see my cat go into my bathroom and come out with the bathtub plug in her mouth. Then , I follow her as she walks into the other bathroom and drops it in the other tub.

Who would have thought the cat was doing it? I had to apologize to my daughter for saying she wasn't telling me the truth, much to her delight. My daughter laughed and said " See! I told you!"

What strange things do your pets do?
 

My dog has become obsessed with the chooks next door. My neighbours has had chooks for years, the old ones never caused my dog any problems or interest.

The neighbour retired the old ones and got a different breed - the old ones were white, the new ones are brown.

Now my dog will lie in front of the fence, with her eyes glued through a crack in the palings, for hours on end.

She never tries to dig through to them, just wants to watch them.
 
....that reminds me of an Australian Shepard we had that brought a LIVE chicken into our yard, dropped it at my husband's feet, we never knew where it came from, but every time my husband was outside working that chicken would followed him.
 

My cat, Mike, and blueberry muffins. I don't know why, but Mike loved blueberry muffins. I'd come in with bag with the muffins. He'd jolt his face towards me, like to say " you got muffins". He'd be jumping up and down, trying to rip the bag open. I had to swat him away. He even tried to climb up me to get at the muffins. I work the 4PM to 12 AM shift and do my food shopping after work. At first, I put the muffins on the counter. I woke up thinking about coffee & muffins, but the box was ripped open and the tops of the muffins eaten. Next time, I put the muffins in the cabinet. Woke up, cabinet door open, muffins eaten. Top shelf of the cabinet-woke up-how he got up there???? Of course muffins eaten. These are the big, bakery type muffins. One would fill me up. I don't know how a little cat could eat the tops of 4 of 'em. Finally, Mike couldn't open the refrigerator.
 
I have a pet sofa with stairs to climb up to it. One of my Chihuahuas will not go on the sofa if there is a wrinkle in the blanket on it. she will run up and down like she is OCD but until I smooth out the wrinkle she will not go there, it is hilarious to watch.

I once had a dog that ate all the forget me nots from my garden then jumped my fence and ate the neighbors ones too ??
 
.....funny story, Fuzzy....we used to have a cat that loved cantaloupes, every time I cut one open she could smell it, no matter where she was in the house, she'd come running.
 
Many, many years ago, I had chooks myself. I used to handle them daily, and each had a name.

I didn't have a home phone, so used to walk to the local public phone booth.

My chooks, who had their own hierarchy, would follow along in a line behind me and hang about just pecking around until I was ready to go back home.

Back into line then, and we proceeded.

Caused quite a bit of hilarity among the neighbours.
 
Years ago, my daughter had to buy her dog a kitten of his own. Her dog had fallen desperately in love with the kitten next door and had enjoyed a friendship with it for over a year. They moved and the dog was mourning himself into a real decline, missing his friend. She finally gave up and got a kitten from the pound. The two were inseparable until the dog had to be put down because of illness a couple of years later.
 
Blunderwoman, when my cat was younger he used to always take the little round metal drain piece out of the bathtub, does it less now that he's older. I used to hear him playing with it and stop him right away. Sometimes he'd just leave it in the tub, but a couple of times he actually carried it out of the tub, and I'd find it on the bathroom floor. He constantly steals pens and pencils, that usually end up under the fridge or stove.
 
My dog loved doughnuts. When we would have doughnuts she would sit by us and not take her eyes off of us. She would salivate. Of course we would give her a doughnut. She did not do that with any other food.
 
It's Mike, again.
I used to find a pile of rocks on the deck, right by the steps. I threw them away. A couple of days later, they were back, so I threw them away. Then one day as I started to throw the rocks away, Mike groaned. Meowing away. You could tell he was really upset.They were his rocks. I know cats bring mice home. I guess Mike caught rocks. One day, I looked out, and he's dragging this 6 foot tree branch. He's biting the branch and dragging it. I suppose he couldn't catch a rock that day. They're fast little critters.

BTW His rocks weren't pebble size, they were big like this: Start-------------------Stop They were too big for him to bite on, I don't know how he got them up the steps.
 
My German Shepherd always wants to do everything I do. So one day I was pulling up these really tall thistles in the back field - I don't know what they are called but there are always a lot of them, they are like 6 feet tall. Anyway, he joined right in and finished the job in no time. From thereon out, whenever he got near some of these, he pulled them.

Enter his new companion, a young Great Dane. She picked this up in no time, and I have had to watch her like a hawk ever since so she didn't pull up my corn etc. He gets the difference, but she just thinks plants need to be pulled. And I have both a veggie and a flower garden....
 
dog lover said:
My German Shepherd always wants to do everything I do. So one day I was pulling up these really tall thistles in the back field - I don't know what they are called but there are always a lot of them, they are like 6 feet tall. Anyway, he joined right in and finished the job in no time. From thereon out, whenever he got near some of these, he pulled them.

Enter his new companion, a young Great Dane. She picked this up in no time, and I have had to watch her like a hawk ever since so she didn't pull up my corn etc. He gets the difference, but she just thinks plants need to be pulled. And I have both a veggie and a flower garden....
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Ah, you've created a monster! (Haha)
 
We had a GSD/Doberman. This was probably the most vicious dog on the face of the earth. If you didn't live in the house or on the property,he hated you. Many a snake and woodchuck met their demise between his jaws.

Our cat was having a litter and he midwived those kittens, pulling them out ,licking them to life and carrying them to a nest of his choosing. Funny, once they got to be a couple days old,he really didn't care about them any more.
 
Robusta said:
We had a GSD/Doberman. This was probably the most vicious dog on the face of the earth. If you didn't live in the house or on the property,he hated you. Many a snake and woodchuck met their demise between his jaws.

Our cat was having a litter and he midwived those kittens, pulling them out ,licking them to life and carrying them to a nest of his choosing. Funny, once they got to be a couple days old,he really didn't care about them any more.
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My shepherd is a flunked police dog - had all his canine training and pulled a ham string during a test, then refused to ever take the test again, lol. Since I came looking at the time and had a background in canine training, I was able to adopt him. He is a good, balanced dog, gotta just love him. And he loves puppies and all kind of babies. He took the Great Dane girl under his wing and pretty much raised her, showed her all the ropes, tirelessly played tug of war with her and kept her occupied and out of trouble. He is a bit disconcerted that she is now twice his size, but they are inseparable.
 
Jackie22 said:
Reading all these stories reminds me of just how much animals add to our lives.

I know my little Bella does....I love her to pieces.
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They do , don't they? I cannot imagine a life without my guys, it's my biggest fear that some day I may have to give up my independent living and won't be able to care for my guys.
 
I used to live in a place that had a very long hallway. Kitty (fem) would sit at one end. When Pete would walk by, she'd haul off and whack him in the face. Then she'd run like hell down the hallway. Pete would chase after her. It think Pete was a "special" cat. When she was about 6 inches away from the wall, she'd stop, sit and watch for Pete. She watched him crash into the wall. She did this to him 3-4 times a day, for years. He never caught on.
Then I moved, but the new place had a long hallway.
 
dog lover said:
My shepherd is a flunked police dog - had all his canine training and pulled a ham string during a test, then refused to ever take the test again, lol. Since I came looking at the time and had a background in canine training, I was able to adopt him. He is a good, balanced dog, gotta just love him. And he loves puppies and all kind of babies. He took the Great Dane girl under his wing and pretty much raised her, showed her all the ropes, tirelessly played tug of war with her and kept her occupied and out of trouble. He is a bit disconcerted that she is now twice his size, but they are inseparable.
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Well, we humans don't share the same skills either, do we? Maybe police work wasn't his calling. He's more the domestic type, a good house dog and companion!
 

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