Funny Pet Stories -- Post Your Own

[Bertha Venation]

I'll start:

Last week Toby was reclining on a high shelf in our house. It's probably 10-12 feet high. He was just lounging and enjoying himself, lolling half off the edge. I looked up to talk to him. Apparently he really enjoyed this, because he talked back, and then turned himself inside out the way cats do when they're really happy. Wound up flipping himself right off the edge. Managed to flip himself in midair and land on his feet. Walked away like, "I meant to do that."

Here's another one, about how Toby got his latest nickname:

We keep a small wastebasket in the living room. I'd tossed a banana peel in there (too lazy to go to the kitchen) and it was hanging over the edge. Later Toby was stretched out upside-down on the ottoman and the peel caught his eye... "hmm, what's this?!" He reached out lazily and hooked it with one claw, then pulled it to his face for a sniff. He obviously wasn't expecting vegetable. The odor scared him and he dropped the peel, flipped over, and ran for cover.

The new nick is Banana Claw.

Toby

[skygazer]

1. He's so beautiful!

He looks like the cat I had when I was a kid. Tom. One day, when the whole family was hanging out in the kitchen for some reason, Tom sauntered in and headed for his favorite seat which was on the shelf by the window, about four feet up. He walked over to it and jumped but he miscalculated and ended up smashing into it head first. It was so funny and we all roared with laughter as he slunk off, obviously embarrassed.

A few weeks later it was Thanksgiving and we were all in the kitchen again. Tom marched in with a determined look on his face, stared around at all of us as if to get our attention, and then leaped onto the kitchen table (a place he knew he was not supposed to be and where he never went). He glared at us, then jumped back down and left. Just letting us know that he could do it.

It was very cute.

[Willy Lee]

2. I have a funny one...

One day we were working out in the yard and we heard this horrible yowling coming from inside the house. It was one of our Neapolitan Mastiffs making a huge racket. We came in and found a mess. The 5 gallon carboy of homemade kahlua was broken on the carpet, chairs were knocked over, and there was kitty litter scattered about.

Well, Aphrodite decided she wanted some kitty rochas from the litterbox. ONly the litterbox has an attachable dome lid on it. Apparently she got her head stuck inside and proceeded to lumber about the house, blinded, with the litter box, 10 lbs of kitty litter and doodooo stuck on her massive head.

Yeah, the kahlua was a bummer but to this day I giggle whenever I think of this story!

[Bertha Venation]

9. kitty rochas?

like almond rocas? eeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww LOL

Great story -- beautiful dog.

[Skittles]

17. WHAT A PICTURE!!!

:thumbsup:

[terrya]

3. He looks just like my kitty, Chess!

Toby is so cute!

It's not a story, but I love the way Chess wants attention when I'm at the computer at home (here at DU, natch). She jumps up on the computer table and walks on the keyboard. And then she sits right in front of the monitor, looking at me. Yep...time for some attention. :-)

[Bertha Venation]

10. cats are attention freaks, aren't they?

Our Cocoa bites Mrs. V. on the chin if she doesn't get her attention when she wants it. :D

[Willy Lee]

4. I have another!

(Being surrounded by pets all the time makes this easy)
My sister has an 11 year old daughter and had a springer spaniel named Hazel. Her daughter had made a leprechaun trap for St. Pats day, a cardboard box with attached helium balloons, windows cut out, chocolate gold coins inside, and lots of signs saying "leprechauns, enter here!!" She was surprised to get a call from work from the police saying her house had been broken in to. She raced home only to discover the REST of the story- Hazel fancied soome of the gold chocolate coins and yes, stuck her head in the box and yes, it got stuck on her head. She too sauntered around the house with this box stuck on her head and of course the balloons set off the burglar alarm.
Case closed.

[samwisefoxburr]

5. I have two to tell...

...My window faces into the courtyard, so we let the cats out there since they can't get away. So I'm on my computer and my cat, Tora, was out there. I hear him jump for the window ledge, but it sounds like he misses the ledge. I look over and all I see are his knuckles on the ledge outside the window. I get up and go over, look over the edge, and he's looking at me like he's saying "are you going to just keep me hanging here, or are you going to grab me and get me in the house!"

The second funny cat story is when I was looking outside my window and through the adjacent living room window I see Zircon. I look at him a second and he's looking back at me, and I look back at my computer to do something, then a couple of minutes later I look back and he's not there. I wonder aloud "Where's Zircon?" at that moment I hear him meow outside my door and I'm like "YAY! Zircon wants to come in the room!", but when I open the door his brother, Titan, has mounted him and is biting his neck! My God, that was SO unexpected!

[Bertha Venation]

11. "get me in the house!"

LOL

I've seen cat brothers mount each other... happens in my house. Weird.

[skygazer]

6. Another story

I used to have a brat horse named Diablo, a beautiful and very mischievous black Morgan. He was forever finding ways to get out of the pasture and he was very creative about it. One day, he'd already gotten out twice and we'd found the places he'd escaped and patched them up. We were walking away after the second time when we heard a thunking sound behind us - turned quickly and there he was just squeezing his fat little body between two rails.

I yelled, "Hey! Get back in there!" and he turned tail and scooted back through, struggling a bit because it was a tight fit. Then he turned and looked at us with an expression of wide eyed horsy innocence. He was a character... By the time we were done, our pasture looked like a fortress. And he still found ways to get out.

[Archae]

12. On one farm I visited...

I saw the farm mutt go running through a horse's yard, the horse ran up to the dog's butt, picked it up by the tail and throw it over a 6' high fence, the dog yelping in pain.

I nearly fell over laughing.

Horse: "This is MY FUCKING YARD, fleabag!" :D

[Kadie]

7. My son made my cat a party hat.

and he insisted that Dusty wear it.

[Bertha Venation]

8. very cute cat!

bet your son soon realized that cats don't much like hats... ;)

[Archae]

13. Since Erin moved here...

The tabby 10 month old male here, Erin:



Has fell headfirst into the toilet three times, at least three times I know of.

He gets on a tear, chasing around, I hear the "clack" of the toilet seat and a "sploosh" and Erin comes out soaking wet from his head to his chest. :D

[Pied Piper]

19. One of my cats did something similar

Last summer I adopted two all-black female kittens. Once they got used to me they used to wait on the toilet while I was in the shower. One would sit on the (closed) seat, and the other would sit on the tank. One morning I went in the bathroom to do my morning business (I was standing) I heard Miranda chirping and running, so I hadn't started my business yet. She ran around the side of the toilet and jumped up to what she thought was the closed seat. Wrong! Spalsh!

[hunter]

14. My dog climbed a tree this morning.

I live near a school and almost every morning I walk my dog on a hill behind the school. We were walking by a tree and my dog got all excited, yanked the leash out of my hand, and started scrambling up the tree, as best a dog can.

I was scolding her and trying to get her down because I thought she was after a cat or a 'possum, which is very much against the rules.

She was about six feet up in the tree, and I was about to yank her down when I saw what she was after...

It was a peanut butter sandwich some kid had thrown into the tree.

My dog's trained not to bolt after people or animals, but I guess in her mind a peanut butter sandwich in a tree was an entirely novel situation, and she went for it.

[Archae]

15. How about that

Instead of a bird dog or coonhound, you have a sandwichmutt. :D

[Skittles]

16. Clancy brought a lizard into my apartment

I thought I would save the little fellow but when I tried to pick him up his tail came off. You know how they twitch to fake out their stalker? I grabbed the little guy when I found him hiding behind a shoe and put him outside. When I came back inside, Clancy had the tail in his mouth, between his teeth - and it was still twiching. OMG it was like a scene out of a horror movie :O

[the Princess]

18. Funniest Peanut story ever! Our dog peanut.

Well we were snowed in from the blizzard of 1997. Peanut was in the living room with us and Wayne was on the phone with his mom in NJ. Peanut was doing what dog's do. Licking her butt. When all of a sudden she farted! Well - it must have been a very interesting fart because she stuck her nose right into her butt area and stopped dead what she had been doing. She just sat there for a while smelling. LMAO
Wayne - on the phone with his mom was trying not to laugh - which was difficult as I was laughing hysterically - and he didn't want to have to explain to his mom what he was laughing at.

Peanut the Wonder Dog. The name fits.