My cat meows constantly and runs to his food bowl until I eventually get up to give him breakfast. By the time I get back to bed, he's fast asleep where I was just lying. What a jerk.

To indicate they want to go outside, our family's dogs have always been trained to ring a small bell hanging from the doorknob on a shoelace. Once when I was home sick from school and sprawled out on the couch, the dog rang the bell and looked at me - clearly wanting to go outside. I got up and went to the door to let him out, only to turn around and see that he had immediately seized the opportunity to hop on the couch.

This is from my boyfriend's parents:

Their dog was trying to get a toy off of the counter where he couldn't reach it and, after some time of jumping and whining, he eventually walked away in what looked like defeat.

Instead he goes to find the cat. He barks at the cat a few times, so the cat stands up and follows the dog to the room with the toy. They stop in front of the counter, the cat meows at the dog, the dog barks at the cat, the cat jumps up onto the counter and knocks the toy onto the floor. The dog is ecstatic and jumps around with the toy while the cat just saunters off back to his bed.

*They're communicating*.

My ex, of 3 years of dating/ had a ring picked out and bought/ living together (in North Carolina), asked my 5 year old son if he “knew how stupid his father was”. I finished making dinner for everyone, walked outside, called her parents (in Florida)and told them to make arrangements for her to move back home and that she was not welcomed in my house anymore.