Weird stuff your pets do. I'll go first and confess

[GreenPartyVoter]

that my girl kitteh LOVES my bra, but only after it's been worn on a day when I was sweaty. (I mean she acts like it's catnip or something!! Rolls all over it and tries to jam it up her nostrils.)

[ThomCat]

1. One of my cats is like that with my shoes.

And he likes to lick my hair whenever it's wet.
:)

[lizerdbits]

28. Max likes to lick my hair

after I've had it cut/styled, I think he likes the flavor of the mousse or hair spray or maybe is interested at the new scent since I usually don't have any in my hair. If my hair is wet he will actually bite my head.

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. Pretzel does that and I've got a theory on it. He is a huffer. Loves bleach and hairspray. I am

thinking that he only chomps my hair because there is still some scent there to get a hit off of.

[lizerdbits]

34. Well Max does like catnip

so he definitely has a history of drug use! I also once had some tea bags that he was pawing and heavily sniffing before I snatched it from him. Sure hope my tea didn't have catnip in it.

[Longhorn]

2. Sometimes my poodle mix, Corky, will spin and leap, spin and leap

about a dozen times before he lays down to go to sleep at night. Since this happens between us on the bed, it's quite entertaining (and annoying!) :)

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Kitteh now sleeps in the kitchen sink, if it's empty...

Moved on from the bathroom sink... :rofl:

He also sticks his head all the way in my sneaker and then runs around bumping into stuff with it on. :D

[fizzgig]

4. my fat cat basically makes out with my sweetie's dirty shirts

not only does she do what yours does, she'll lie on her back, hook the shirt with a nail and drag the shirt across her face

she has never done that to anything of mine

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. That sounds exactly like what pickles is doing. She'll knead on it too

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. One of my cats steals socks.

He opens the dresser drawer where the socks are kept, rummages around and strews the contents of the drawer on the floor until he finds the socks he wants (the fuzzy ones, never regular socks), and carries them downstairs and plays with them until they get all damp with drool.

[Rhythm]

6. Our golden retriever thinks he's a hound...

He's developed a habit of howling randomly, whether inside or out. Last night, he was baying at the moon like he thought he was Lon Chaney Jr.

[buzzard]

7. My bird steals pizza and eats with a spoon.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. That is so cool!

[stuntcat]

24. great pictures!

that's one lucky bird I bet.

[Flaxbee]

8. Clairebelly likes to groom me (face and hair) but only at the

end of a long day; she's not interested if I'm squeaky clean. She also LOVES male armpits, again, though, must be stinky. If my husband comes in from yardwork or something, she's crazed to get to him before he showers. If she can't, she'll go bonkers over his t-shirt.

Bimbo likes to have her tail pulled, and to be pushed around in a shoebox (it's how we play "bumper cars").

Ivan, if he feels like letting you scratch his belly, does a sort of air-ballet with his front paws in happiness.

There are four others, but none are quite as odd...

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Both kittehs in my house will groom hair and give people "haircuts" and very

prickly scalp massages

[grannylib]

12. My oldest kitty used to jump up and grab the chain for the hall

light and turn it on, and I would always yell at the KIDS, until I actually caught the kitty in the act one night...
And our BabyCat rolls over and sits up on command before she gets fed, and she knows how to use the dimmer switch on the lights and will turn them down if she wants to nap on the cushion on the dining room chairs.

And they love stinky shoes.

[Lorien]

13. My Maine Coon screws the pooch

Not a real one-just the life sized Bernese Mountain dog plush that I got for a friend's child that ended up as a burglar deterrent in my entryway (you could see it from the front door-but not well enough to know it was fake). Oberon, a NEUTERED cat, serenades the stuffed toy before, er, well, the picture tells the story. It no longer looks realistic. It's a pathetic flattened thing that needs frequent patching. But I've let him keep it; the alternative is having Oberon mount my head when I'm trying to sleep!

Does this make him a "furry" or a "plushie"?

[Cabcere]

14. LOL! Too funny!

:rofl: And I LOVE the expression on the smaller cat's face - it's like he/she is saying, "See what I have to put up with?!" :rofl: :hug: Too cute! :hi:

[Lorien]

19. I think he's saying "WTF?? Well, at least he doesn't go after me like that"!

The absurd thing is that I DO have a (spayed) female cat, and Oberon shows no interest in her.But then again, he knows that if he tried she's kick his ass, lol!

:hi:

[TZ]

15. I have to keep my underwear drawer shut

If I don't one of my cats jumps up and paws through it..flinging undergarments everywhere (mostly bras and socks) I have no clue why this is fun:shrug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Yep, they like Daddy's drawer that way.

[Pacifist Patriot]

16. They try to bite the earplugs out of my ears in the middle of the night.

My husband snores like a freight train and I'm often up late reading after he's already gone to bed. So if I'm going to get any sleep I have to wear earplugs. Which the kitties have found on my nightstand and love to play with and eat. So I've taken to hiding them when I don't have them in. Well this week my husband was at a convention and I still had kitten's noses in my ears in the middle of the night despite not having earplugs. Very weird feeling having a cat trying to eat out your eardrum.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. oh jeez. LOL

[meow2u3]

20. My cat puts socks in the litterbox

Ruby thinks the socks must smell like s#!t, so she puts them where they belong :silly:

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Mine do that if I don't change the box as soon as they want. And since the

washer and dryer are right there, it's pretty easy to find a stray sock or two.

[Habibi]

22. My two neutered male kittehs

hump each other all the time. I think it's sweet.

[stuntcat]

23. aww, she loves you!

One of my cats chases her tail a lot, she can go around and around for a very long time. Also she's a boy, we didn't find this out until we'd had her for years (we inherited her) and one day caught her cleaning her stuff :o and lately she's started marking everything that's at cat-ass level, even though she/he's at least ten years old. We don't know what to do with her, we love her and she's so cute when she chases her tail. Maybe we'll tie a diaper on her, him.

[Cabcere]

25. All of my animals are hilarious in their own right

but they each have their own little weird quirks that stand out. :)

This is Katie.

In addition to being ridiculously adorable, her hobbies include: eating cheese (and anything else that happens to get dropped on the floor), licking people's bare legs, patrolling the house/neighborhood to make sure the cats are behaving themselves/there are no strange dogs invading "her" territory, and occasionally humping Phoenix.


This is Phoenix.

When he's not fending off unwanted advances from Katie, he enjoys: sitting in what appear, to the human eye, to be extremely awkward/uncomfortable positions; jumping up to high places and looking down haughtily on the rest of us mere mortals (and occasionally projectile vomiting from said high places), making threatening clicking noises at birds outside the window, and sometimes terrorizing Isabel.


This is Isabel.

Besides putting up with Phoenix's aggressive bathing and other silly behavior, Isabel often engages in some rather silly behavior of her own, such as: curling up too close to a halogen desk lamp and singeing her fur, being adorably (and often hilariously) clumsy, shedding copious quantities of gray hair on clean laundry, squalling bloody murder when anyone tries to pick her up, and squeaking indignantly when anyone stops petting her. (Seriously, my mom has this game that she plays with Isabel - she'll be petting the cat, and then she'll stop, and Isabel will look around and try to figure out what's different. Then my mom will say, in a really high-pitched voice, "Squeaky?" and Isabel will respond with her squeaky meow. :D It's really cute/funny.)

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. I love the weird clicky noise kittehs make through the window at squirrels and birds.

[Cabcere]

29. Strangely enough, I didn't even know other cats did that until I read about it here on DU

:shrug: We've had four cats over the past 12 years or so, including Phoenix, and he's the only one who's ever done it. I thought he was just weird (well... :P), but somebody posted a thread about it a while back here in Teh Lounge. :) It is pretty crazy, isn't it? :hi:

[lost-in-nj]

27. my pups love to

sleep with their noses in my slippers....

all the way in my slippers.....


lost

[Mad_Dem_X]

30. I once had a rabbit who was in love

with my fuzzy pink robe. If I was wearing the robe, and held him against me, he'd start, um, making love to it. It was funny and kinda gross at the same time.

[GreenPartyVoter]

31. That would weird me out a bit :^P

[Lorien]

36. Your rabbit should meet my cat

they have a common interest in synthetic fluff (see post upthread).

:P

[NV Whino]

33. Grayson has a morning ritual

1. I get up go into the bathroom.
2. He chases his tail in the corner where the tub meets the wall.
3. I go to the kitchen.
4. He continues his tail chasing in front of the fridge. (He sometimes skips the bathroom, but never the fridge.)

He also pulls out the insoles to my rubber boots, which during rainy season, I leave out of the closet. Now these boots are 13" high and he pulls out not only the cushiony insert I've added, but the original thin insole. Once they're out, he has done his job and leaves them alone.

Millie, except for the occasional inexplicable rampage, seems to have no unusual traits.

[Darth_Kitten]

35. My bird goes into ecstacies over the vacuum cleaner.......

she hears it and goes into happy chirping mode. Tosses herself against the side of her cage, spreading her wings, and warbling away. It's so funny.

It's the same when she gets a shower of water. Wants more! more! more! :silly:

Crazy bird. :)

[Lorien]

37. That's probably one of the ONLY pets I've ever heard of that gets excited

by the noise of a vacuum! My kitten Pip attacks the vacuum, but I'm not sure that he thinks that it's groovy. Every other pet I've had has been terrified of it!

[ironflange]

38. two of our cats fear the vacuum

they hide as most cats do

however the third and oldest will follow you around yowling until she gets vacuumed
shes especially fond of the upholstery brush

you have to be careful of her eyes and ears

i like to suck her tail up the hose
its very long and goes flapflapflapflap in there

[GreenPartyVoter]

43. Crazy kitteh LOL

[huskerlaw]

40. Kyra's not afraid of it

she's the first cat I've ever had that will actually come sit next to it while I vacuum. It's a little scary since she's got super long hair. I'm always afraid her tail will get sucked up! Stupid cat. :P

[huskerlaw]

39. Kyra likes to

kneed and suck on her kitty bed, like she's nursing on it...



When it's warm outside, Spencer likes to lay all sprawled out on the wood floor...



And Riley has been known to jump at non-existent things on the wall. Repeatedly.

[kath]

41. Our cat Max is trying with all his might to learn how to flush the toilet -- to the point where we

noticed a day or two back that the only-3-months-old and kinda fancy new flush-handle thing (that we put on when we remodeled the bathroom) was feeling rough to the touch. I looked at it closely, and saw that it is covered with fairly deep bite-mark scratches! And this thing is made of metal, not plastic. Max is just *fascinated* with the toilet - everything about it. He always pries off the little cup-things that cover up the bolts that attach the toilet to the floor, and plays with them. But best of all is the *water!* and the *flushing!!*. We've all learned to put the toilet lid down after we're done, so that he doesn't play with the water. Since the remodel, with a few extra coats of paint on it, the bathroom door doesn't shut real tightly unless you give it an extra push. So virtually every time I'm on the throne, Max pushes the door open, then waits very eagerly so that he can watch me flush. Fascinating stuff! After the show is over (and sometimes after he's dipped a paw in) and the lid is down he'll jump up on the lid and try to lift the lid up with his paw, or, more recently, start messing with the handle - pondering it with great curiosity and sometimes biting it and trying to push it down.

He's a very inquisitive and bright cat. God help us if he learns how to do it (he's not quite full grown, so some extra weight might help do the trick) -- our water bills will skyrocket!

[PassingFair]

42. My dog eats poo.

His own, usually.

My friend's cat's, if he can get it.

I'm not proud of it, but there it is.

He knows he's not SUPPOSED to.....

[BarenakedLady]

44. My dog Ben is a hoarder with a shoe fetish.

He steals shoes, toys, paper, clothes, dishes, anything really and puts them in his crate.



It gets worse that that too.

[GreenPartyVoter]

46. That is too funny!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

45. Pru steals my socks.

And they're all over just outside the entry way where we have her treats.
And there's a cat that tortures her. She pokes her head around the side of the divider that separates our balcony from the neighbor's. The cat will sit there just long enough to get her going, and then she'll disappear. We thought Pru was just insane until one day I caught the cat doing it. Every day, same time, Pru started barking and hitting her head against the glass door trying to get to the damned cat.
She must sit on my lap if I'm on the computer. And she will get into my face so that I can do nothing but see her.
Duckie

[GreenPartyVoter]

47. Poor Pru. Yes, I can say that cats can be mean. I had kittehs and puppehs when

I was a kid, and man were the kittehs a real tease to the puppehs!

[datasuspect]

48. lady sweat is the best.

[reyd reid reed]

49. One of mine goes berserk

when I clean with bleach. And they try and crawl into my shoes when I take 'em off.

And they go absolutely insane when Bonehead takes of his shoes. They're the only creatures on the planet that actually look forward to that.

[GreenPartyVoter]

50. Yep. Pretzel huffs bleach. I try to keep it away from him because I am afraid he is

burning out too many brain cells. :P

[quadriga]

51. Kitteh likes dirt baths

Will find dirty dusty patches in the yard and roll around in them. Really likes the sandy spot in the yard. Is always dusty and dirty, against my preconceived notions of cats always being so clean.

[madmom]

52. My former dog (he is no longer with us..snif) used to go crazy over bowling balls, he'd

bark and growl and try to pick them up, if we rolled them he'd chase after them, no other balls, just bowling balls!

[GreenPartyVoter]

53. LOL I 've never heard of that one before. What a silly boy he was. :^)

[madmom]

56. Yes he was, I really miss him : (

[havocmom]

58. Had a terrier/doxy cross that would play with bowling balls

croquet balls, steal tennis balls (my bro always took him with to play tennis. He NEVER had to buy balls) super balls, beach balls.

If it was round, he was the boss of it.

[shaniqua6392]

54. I have two female german shepherds

that "french kiss" constantly, tongues and all!!! It is the most disgusting, sloppy sound you have ever heard. They REALLY love each other a lot.

[hippywife]

55. We live in a rural area

with a cow pasture next door and a horse ranch down the road and they sometimes ride the horses down the road. Our new puppy likes to go and get cow pats and horse dung, bring them into the yard and chew on them. Yuck!

[GreenPartyVoter]

59. Oh, yum! LOL

[blonndee]

57. My freaky boy-and-girl dogs do something VERY UNNATURAL.

I always make them stop because it seems so weird.

[av8rdave]

60. One of our dogs likes to lick Mrs. av8rdave's toes

This isn't your casual, canine "hey, how's it going?" lick. It's damn near pornographic.

[NewWaveChick1981]

61. Our dog Vicki is addicted to fabric softener sheets...

...:rofl: Actually, used fabric softener sheets and warm laundry. :P The first time I ever saw her playing with a fabric softener sheet, I thought I was gonna lose it....it was so cute and so funny! :rofl: She's a scent hound anyway, but it's great fun for her to roll on them and toss them up in the air, then bark at them to play more! Our other dog Casey couldn't care less about them, but Vick's an addict.

Vicki also concocts elaborate schemes to steal treats from Casey. :P One time, Vicki ran outside and started barking, then Casey went out to see what was going on. Vicki bounded back in the door and snagged the dog biscuit Casey dropped. :rofl: She knew it was going to be there when Casey was distracted.

[GreenPartyVoter]

62. What a sneak!

[NewWaveChick1981]

63. Oh, yeah...

:rofl: Vicki's the queen of sneakiness. She's got the top strategy for stealing dog treats....