Post your STUPID pet stories here!

[Hawkeye-X]

Pretty please.. I need a laugh (or two)

I'll start with mine.

My dog, Teddy, has a beanbag and he knows EXACTLY where it is (usually in the middle of the living room) -- and one night, I had just finished vacuumming the room, and let my dog in for the night, and he ran into the hall, leaped, and PLOPPED into the carpet where the beanbag used to be (I moved it on the table), and I just laughed my head off, and put the beanbag back to its usual place.. and he hopped on it, growling at me, and I gave him his toy, and I thought it was pretty funny.

Hawkeye-X

[wryter2000]

1. It's not a whole story

But...never take your pet snake into a rope hammock with you. Within five minutes, it'll be twined in the hammock, and it'll take you another 15 minutes to untangle it. Believe me, I know.

[Darth_Kitten]

3. LOL

that's just TOO cute... :) snort. :evilgrin:

poor little guy, hope he wasn't tied up in knots over the whole episode. ;)

Sorry. ;)

[terrya]

2. I still can't get used to my cat spending a minute staring at the wall.

I mean, a blank wall.

She'll sit there, utterly transfixed, staring at the wall.

Maybe she sees something I don't. :-)

[Darth_Kitten]

5. Haven't had my Tiel long...

but she hisses at the camera. (trying to take her picture)

once she was on the arm of the sofa. There was a little toy/treat in front of her. She decided to walk down the arm of the sofa (she was walking towards me) she comes upon the treat, it is in the way, with one deliberate side "KICK", off shoots the treat half way across the room, and then she continues her little waddle towards me. :evilgrin:

[oxymoron]

6. Mine does that too.

"Ethel" will sit in my bedroom completely fixate and meow at the corner of the ceiling. She has done this for years now. It's especially interesting to her around the time I go to bed. It keeps her completely entertained for hours. I wish my threshold was that low. I tried it once but it didn't do much for me. Her brother "Fred" just sits on the bed and looks at her like she is insane.

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[Padraig18]

4. OK...

My dog has this silly 'Piglet' soft toy that he just ADORES, and he refuses to go to sleep without it, just like a little kid. One night, he could NOT find it and was pacing around the house looking for it, because he wanted to get into bed and sleep with us, like always. Click, click, click... toenails on the linoleum for at least an hour. Finally, I could stand it no longer and got up and look in all the places he couldn't, and lo and behold, I'd scooped it up and put it in the hamper when I picked up mine and Tony's clothes.

Problem solved, and we all got a peaceful night's sleep--- finally. :)

[Sequoia]

7. Put another log on the fire

Okay, so it's not MY pet but my friend's. Here goes: I fly to good ole western North Carolina (Hi everyone)and am hanging out with adults I knew when we were kids and on the deck of my friend's house she has these portable stove things that are the rage these days. It's dark outside and in the country so I think I'd better put some logs on to give us heat and light. The logs aren't burning so well so I start gathering twigs and branches as kindling to get it roaring. I pick up a small twig but it's squishy and limps on me. I scream and drop it because I realize it's small doggie-do. Everyone laughed all night.

[Character Assassin]

8. I tried to teach that damn goat algebra once. Man, was he stupid!

[LisaM]

9. My dog takes 1 Benadryl every night for her skin

at 10:00.

At about 9:48, she'll start lobbying for it (she gets it inside a Snausage). If we don't remember by 10:00, she'll bark at us. If we miss 10:00, she'll run back and forth to the kitchen, and shake her head in that direction.

[ajacobson]

10. True Confessions

Each of my dogs gets a jelly bean every night before bed.

I'm a volunteer dog obedience trainer and if my students knew this, I'd never hear the end of it.

:D

[nuxvomica]

11. The case of the tell-tale Raspberry Newtons

When my cat Amos was a wee bit of a kitten, he would often jump on my lap and start eating whatever it was I was eating. One day it was a Raspberry Newton, upon sampling which he discovered a tremendous fondness for the pastry and he tried repeatedly to pull it out of my hand. This was followed by some caterwauling and lunging attacks. I was surprised that a kitten could so love the raspberry flavor.
A week passed and I had bought another package of Raspberry Newtons, which I had left unopened on the kitchen counter when I went to work the following morning. Upon my return that evening, I discovered the package more than half-way up the stairs to the second floor, a corner of it slightly ripped but not plundered, and Amos was sound asleep on my bed. This furball weighing little more than the package itself had obviously knocked it off the counter, dragged it down the hallway, up a short flight of stairs to a landing, and halfway up the remaining steps before exhaustion overtook him.

[kayleybeth]

12. One of my dogs

goes nuts any time he hears the song "cars" by Gary Newman. I'm not kidding. They were using it as background music for some commercial a while back and he would go apeshit every time the commercial came on.

[annak110]

13. We usually have several cats to entertain us. Once Richard, a cat

we brought from West Virginia to Oklahoma figured out how to balance on the toilet seat and pee. He taught the other six cats (cats learn by watching other cats) and, after that, we waited in line every morning to use the toilet, seven cats, two people. We had to be last because the cats never learned to flush.

Now we have a polydactal named Georgie who uses his big six toed paws in creative ways. He too goes into the bathroom but only to jump up on the cabinet and then jump to the top of the door. His weight swings the door open into the hall and to the linen closet. He reaches out, opens the linen closet door and jumps in. Great place to sleep!

Last week, late in the evening when I thought all the cats had gone downstairs, I noticed that the bottom drawer of the kitchen cabinet was open. We have several cats who can open the drawer and get to the back of the cabinet which is also apparently a fine place to sleep. I closed the drawer then sat at the kitchen table reading. I heard a noise, a scritch, scritch, scrabble, scrabble so I got up to see what was happening. The drawer was opening. Georgie's head was coming into view, he was on his back in the drawer and had curled his many toes up to the bottom of the wooden panel within which the drawer sits and was pulling the drawer open!

[MissMillie]

14. Newman the moocher

Newman, god rest his soul, was my part-siamese cat that we had to put down back in January.

He loved to sit and stare at us while we ate.... mooching is what we called it.

Anyway, one day he's sitting up on the window sill, watching us intently as we eat, and he manages to completely miss the fact that Siouxsie, then a kitten and about 1/5 of his size, is down on the floor and ready to pounce.

And pounce she did. She jumped up, wrapped both paws around Newman's neck and took him DOWN!

It was wonderful kitten comedy.