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45 Pet Owners Share The Biggest Beef Their Animals Have Going On Right Now
What could be better than owning a pet? Having two, of course. Or maybe even three! The more, the merrier.
But along with extra cuddles and love comes a fair share of chaos and drama, too. One Redditor decided to ask people with multiple furry friends to share the hilarious soap operas unfolding in their homes, and the responses did not disappoint.
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#1
I feel typing it out is therapy.
I have eight dogs.
Not a typo. I didn't do it on purpose. It just kinda... happened. People leave a dog with you and never come back and then the 'what's one more at this point?' ideology hits and suddenly, you think maybe you should file some paperwork and just become a shelter, but you know you won't adopt any out so you're just stuck with a pack of dogs.
Anyway.
Let's discuss Dog Politics in a pack of eight very different dogs.
I have a mini pack within the pack, of my four weens - Chicken Nugget (the queen alpha of the ween pack), Kimchi (her daughter and second in command), Gus Gus ( an inbred ween who only has one functioning eye and brain cell), and Taco Bell (has all his braincells but only uses them for evil and narcissistic purposes).
The larger Pack consists of Sadie (a mixture of all the big dogs you can think of and is often mistaken for a pony), Max (a dutch Shepard - which is just a nice way of saying a really dumb German Shepard), Puppy (her government name is Charlie but it never stuck - Australian sheep dog) and Django - the Dog Who Started it All. He's a chiweenie, but mostly just a medium sized sausage with tiny legs and the sweetest heart you ever met.
Are you still reading this? Why?!
Anyway, when they're all in the same room (whichever room I'm in) Sadie is in charge. She basically raised all of them except Max and Django. She's about two years past her expiration date, though, so Chicken polices when Sadie is too tired.
As it gets colder outside, the true drama surrounds heat. I'm not a very big woman, and so not all of them can be on me at once.
Thus they play Queen of the Mountain.
I am the mountain. Obviously.
If I am in a seated position, it is a full half hour of inner fighting before they all settle into the same spot they've settled into for years. I don't know why we do this several times a day, but we do.
Hope you have a great day and thanks for reading. Unless you voted for Trump. Then have the day you voted for.
CACAW.
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#2
As she’s now on her own (for the safety of others) my massive duck has free run of the garden. This, we hoped, would quieten her innate rage at being born a duck rather than a honey badger.
It has not. She is now the quacking equivalent of a gang leader. Wild birds know that any food that falls to the ground is hers now. Neighbourhood cats fear to step foot in the garden.
The latest development is that the dogs will now not go out alone. Together, they stand a chance, but alone…
The dogs in question are a GSD cross the size of a small pony and a Patterdale.
#3
We apparently only have one toy. It’s whichever toy the other one has.
We have 27,000 toys. .
#4
We're a blended family - the dog is scared of the cat, the cat is scared of the dog - but they both want those sunny spots in the house so bad.
The solution seems to be the cat sitting with his back to the dog, and the dog hiding her face so she can't see the cat.
#5
My male dog has decided that the baby is his. He is obsessed. The rest of them are like "cool 👍 a baby." He is acting like he is about to be a single father.
#6
We have to stand guard while our dog eats because the chickens will steal his food and he will let them because he’s trained to stop touching food if someone interacts with his food. It does not occur to him that this rule only applies to humans and not to chickens.
#7
The cat keeps sitting in all the best spots. Older dog is sad and whines about it. Younger dog just sits on cat. Them older dog has to bark at young dog for being rude to cat.
Cat remains unbothered and in best spot.
#8
The clocks changed four days ago and the cats are furious they’re not being fed at the same time any more, lots of hitting and shouting at 6am.
#9
I have a black cat with golden eyes named Natsume. He’s not allowed outside. My neighbor has a black cat with golden eyes named Jon Snow. He IS allowed to wander outside at times.
Natsume and Jon Snow look so similar to each other, it’s always a shock. Jon Snow knows this, and several times has waited right at my door so that he can pretend he’s Natsume who accidentally got out and needs to come back inside.
Natsume doesn’t even know he’s been a victim of attempted identity theft. One of these days Jon Snow might be successful. It’s almost worked several times.
#10
Cat wants dog to love her. Dog resents no longer being only child.
It’s been three years btw, the cat didn’t just get here.
#11
Two black cats. One likes to wrestle with the dog WWE style, the other does not want the dog to even look in her general direction. Dog gets them confused fairly often.
#12
The doggo goes into his crate at human meal times, because kid. He's fine with it, he gets lots of treats and praise for being the best boy.
The cat has decided that he wants to flaunt his freedom at human mealtime. Cat is old and basically has spent the last 18 months since the doggo arrived sleeping in my bed, emerging only at his own meal times.
So now as soon as doggo goes into his crate when human food comes out, cat comes out of the bedroom and just sits where the doggo can see him.
He then often takes it up a notch, and will jump into my lap if I've finished eating and stare at the dog.
I am convinced the cat 100% knows what he's doing.
#13
My cat thinks he’s the CEO, my dog’s the unpaid intern doing all the work, and the fish are basically the HR department just watching the chaos and judging silently.
#14
The dog exists and the cat is mad about it. But also the cat is mad if the dog is not there for him to be mad about.
#15
We have two cats that live downstairs and three upstairs. The two sets of cats cannot get along with each other and the division must be strictly enforced.
If the upstairs cats fight with each other the dog breaks up the fight.
#16
The cat caught a bird. My son saved it. The dog caught it while it was recovering. My wife tried to stop it, but the dog ate it. I walked in too late to help.
Right now everyone's angry at literally everyone. 🤣.
#17
They do not care for their three towers. They prefer the shelves on which we keep our knickknacks, which they knock off so they can enjoy the shelves in solitude. So we got them a set of their own shelves which are the exact same set as the ones we use for our knickknacks. Those shelves are horrid and stupid and WRONG, apparently. They don’t want cat shelves; they only want knickknack shelves. We tried moving our things to the shelves they won’t use. This was an unacceptable compromise, and they continue to use whichever shelves houses our knickknacks.
#18
My dog thinks I am a bad mom and every time my newborn makes a single sound she runs in with a panicked look on her face and tries to take the baby from me.
#19
My oldest cat hates the younger cats (we have three kittens of varying ages under a year). She won’t let them near the cat tree so we got another cat tree now she runs between the cat trees so we got ANOTHER cat tree and immediately placed the kittens on it so she [urinated] on that one.
#20
My goat has made friends with a squirrel and plays with him for a while when he turns up. His older brother is jealous and keeps trying to chase the squirrel away, ruining their game.
#21
The youngest cat has discovered that after my husband falls asleep, the Doggo and I sneak into the kitchen and share a slice of cheese. Cat now happily joins us in our nightly cheese tax sacrifice. Doggo is miffed at cat, and tries to sit in front of cat.
#22
It appears there’s been an issue in scheduling and they were BOTH put on toilet watch. So since they both apparently really need the overtime: the cat stands guard of me, the dog guards the cat, and then there’s the door 😂🤷🏻♀️ the drama is unreal.
#23
The labrador is confused why her toy came to life and won't play with her .
(My bf moved in and my Chihuahua looks and is sized eerily similar to one of her favourite plushies 😂).
#24
Big cat is old and hurts a lot and lashes out at the younger cat and dog sometimes because of it. Younger cat and dog don’t know why and seem sad. I know the time is coming for big cat to cross the rainbow bridge soon. Young cat and dog won’t understand, and I’m not ready for it.
#25
Little cat just turned 2 and is clearly going through some form of psychological puberty because she won’t stop hissing at the big cat, who is 3, and is a big dumb sweetheart. They used to cuddle, now they tolerate.
They get supervised backyard time but the little cat has decided she owns the backyard and if big cat ventures out there, she flies at him with teeth and claws and ungodly screeching noises.
I hope she hits the lazy adulthood stage soon.
#26
The dog is still worried the cat is going to eat her food. The cat still has no interest in the dog’s food and, in fact, has only sniffed it once when the dog first arrived.
The cat is insulted anyone, even a dog, would think she could have such poor taste.
#27
The cat exists. This has greatly upset the elder dog and she would like for me to rectify the situation.
The younger dog just wants more ham.
#28
Cat stole puppy’s giant bed. Puppy is sad but won’t do anything about it because cat is “scary”.
Also…. Puppy is a puppy so she’s usually annoying everyone in the house.
#29
Small dog keeps lying on big dogs bed. So big dog wakes me up in the middle of the night because he wants to sleep in his own bed but I have to tell small dog to get off his bed. The 10 year old cat is the boss of the Jack Russell and the Rottie!
#30
The older cat attempted to reenact the lion king with her younger brother. Now the younger one feels betrayed and is pouting.
#31
Both my boy cats want to lay on my right side. The left side is apparently unacceptable to either of them, and so if one wants to cuddle when the other has already gotten there, the second will huff and pretend like there’s nowhere to get comfortable until the first runs off.
The girl cat hates the outside kitten (not ours, a stray that likes to hang out nearby).
#32
One of my cats likes to kiss. He kisses people, and he tries to kiss my older cat, and my older cat does not like to be kissed, so he slaps the kisser in the face, and then the kisser gets angry and then they start tumbling around.
#33
The predator, the cat is scared of what in nature would be her prey, the rabbit. The rabbit on the other hand does not care and thinks that she’s a predator because she charges at the cat every time she gets close. The cat is otherwise a very territorial and protective animal but for some reason the rabbit is scary.
#34
Poodle (full sized, pom poms and everything) is sitting on top of chow-mix and fully intends on staying there all night to sleep. Chow-mix is conflicted.
#35
Cat is starting to show some affection towards the dog, like rubbing her against him and the dog doesn't know what to think about it as the cat has avoided him for years.
#36
I was one hour late getting home, fat boy Horus (cat) ripped open the dog food bag and ate sweet boy Coco's bikkies… Phaedra, the house MVP, watched in horror (have cameras in the house).
Horus has a problem.
#37
The new cat quarrels with the resident cat, so they've staked out territory with resident cat having the bed, and new cat claiming the couch. Recently they trialed sharing the bed overnight without hissing, successfully. They have learned to eat food next to each other without fuss but sometimes swipe. But most importantly for each meal I tell them "you two be good sisters!" and they've learned that they must be nice to each other so resident cat will begrudgingly walk up to new cat and lower her head to be groomed by new cat, and they sniff noses. Then I praise them and feed them.
#38
~6lb cat lays on the ~100lb dog's bed, instead of his own little cat bed, and the dog is too polite to do anything about it and will just sit next to his bed and look sad til I move the cat for him.
#39
Shouty cat was mucking about in a bin with some fresh picked tomatoes in it. Got yelled at, didn't move until I walked over towards him, then of course he took off at mach Jesus and flung tomatoes everywhere. I thought I got them all but little dog managed to sneak off with two and chew them up in one of the only carpeted rooms in the house. He doesn't even like vegetables.
#40
Does having a school of 20+ fish count? The drama right now is some individuals are laying eggs this late in the season. I have maintained the school for years and have never seen eggs this late.
#43
The big rabbit and the small rabbit kept getting into fights. We ended up separating them with a pet gate so then they started marking their territory on each side of the border.... Eventually we just put litter boxes there.
#44
One of our chickens won’t stop chasing one of our cats and now the cat doesn’t want to go outside.
#45
For me. I have 2 cats and 1 dog. Its normally the cats teaming up on the dog to make him go into the corner.
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