We've seen dogs being weird and pets bringing home the most unusual items, so it's no surprise that our closest (usually) four-legged friends can be really, truly bizarre. Some say that pet animals can be so close to their owners, that they eventually mimic some behavior and if we know anything about humans, we know that our own species can have some pretty strange, but not necessarily bad habits. That's why it doesn't surprise anyone that silly animals can be a little... "out there" with their actions. Well, as long as these weird animals are not hurting anyone, we guess?
People of Reddit decided to share some of the weirdest, yet harmless habits their pets have, and, let's be honest, some are pretty darn weird. Scroll down to check the unusual animal behaviors out and don't forget to comment, as well as vote for your favorites. Oh, and if you have some weird stories on animal psychology of your own, share them with other pandas! (Facebook cover image: sipa)
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I am not allowed to get mad, If I yell, raise my voice, or even sound angry my cat pumpkin will get up from wherever she is and run over. She will then mew gently and grab at my arm with her paws while mewing. She pulls my hands to her head and rubs her head on me trying to get me to calm down. It works though so theres that.
I think that's incredibly sweet for a kitty to do that...she must really love you..:-)
The rarest thing in the world,. A cat that loves a human!
Load More Replies...Awe. Mine did that too. He'd get right up in my face with wide eyes, meowing, and pawing. It was adorable.
Whenever I start crying my cat starts meowing at me. Not sure if she's comforting me or telling me to shut up.
Everytime we have an argument boyfriend and I , my cat start meowing and put himself between us like he wants us to stop. We have to talk to him to calm him because he is too stressed, it kinds of works because we often stop arguing to take care of the cat. Lol
Ah-ha, it's Carlisle time! Carlisle is my mentally retarded dog in a very literal sense; he has epilepsy and after seven years of seizures, there's not a lot going on in there. He was rescued from an extreme neglect/hoarding case and he is now a spoiled, completely mindless little gnome of stupid whimsy. He's also on about 45 mg phenobarb for the epilepsy every day, so he's also sort of high all the time.
Some Carlisle stories:
He was once scratching his face with his back leg, yawned, and got his foot caught in his mouth. He needed help getting it out.
He once chased a rabbit, cornered it, forgot what he was doing, and then got attacked by the rabbit (which probably felt this was its very last defense). He now fears rabbits. I have a rabbit in the house. He will not go near her.
He sometimes gets confused while drinking water and urinates in the water bowl.
He sometimes gets caught in "loops" of compulsive behaviors. His most common looping behavior is digging. Unless you reorient him he will sit on his haunches and dig with his front legs pretty much for hours.
Once he got his collar caught on a knob on the dresser and sat there getting slightly choked until I found him. (We had to remove the knobs from the dresser for his safety.)
He has climbed onto the coffee table and shat into a flower pot (presumably because it had soil and he thought he was outside). We can no longer have indoor plants, not even if they're as small as a coffee can, because he will shit in them.
He gets scared by the pictures of a dogs on the wall in an exam room at the vet's. We have to request rooms with diagrams.
He goes to sleep if you put a blanket over him like a bird.
He sometimes tears holes through sheets and then sticks his head through and just walks around with it like a robe. Every single sheet and blanket in the house has at least one Carlisle hole.
If the other dog leaves the house he [howls] until the other dog returns. It's really pathetic, even for him.
As for the non-Carlisle pets of my house, my rabbit and my cat are pair-bonded, which is pretty adorable. The cat likes to bat the rabbit's ears. The rabbit doesn't care. She just sort of blobs into a puddle of disapproval.
Reminds me of the dog from hyperbole and a half. Sweet little stupid thing.
I'm just over here imagining how Carlisle looks like with blanket robe *screams into pillow because it is waaaaayyyy to cute*
I adopted my little dog from the shelter and he had been there a while. He is blind in one eye, and has problems with his back legs. He's also an older dog (9 years). He is the love of my life.
Load More Replies...My Papillon had Ludite tendencies and barked when she glimpsed...plastic garbage bags, or metal measuring tapes.....but she never picked up food from the streets, or was unfriendly to anyone.
I had a brain damaged dog once. His name was Snoopy. My step-dad found him by the road, with a hair band wrapped tightly around his neck. He was not right in the head. I couldn't have potted plants either. he would dump them out, eat the plant (roots and all), then attempt to eat the pot. He also drank engine oil, ate tin foil and swallowed a kitchen timer (I'm surprised he didn't die. Sometimes I didn't find out what he had done right away). He loved having guests over and he would loudly cry for a good half an hour at the door after someone left. But he was my baby! He was sweet to everyone and everything. He loved everyone. I had him and loved him for years.
my dog is suffering with epilepsy and I would never call him those horrible names!
Growing up, we had a chocolate lab named Kody. Kody had a few oddities and idiosyncrasies about him. My parents are beer drinkers, and Kody would learn how to open each and every cooler we ever had so that he could eat all of the ice. That dog LOVED ice, he would eat it until he had what we called "brain freezers" or these mini little seizures (he was fine, but it was a weird habit). Another time, Kody was out pooping in the yard and we saw a bunch of cloth coming out of his butt. Turns out, it was an ace bandage that had to be surgically removed. Upon opening his stomach they found a silver dollar, a few bobby pins, the ace bandage and a billiards cue ball. Now, here's the kicker- we didn't own a pool table, and our closest neighbor was 5 miles away, who also did not own a pool table. We never did find out where he got that cue ball from. He lived to be 15 years old and passed away peacefully two years ago. Miss you, buddy.
We had a bulldog that ate a loaf of bread.... the bag and all. I found out he ate it because one day while he was outside I saw him running around and biting at his butt. I went out to see what was going on, and there it was! The bread bag hanging halfway out his butt! So I get gloves on and have him walk away from me while i pulled it out. He was ok Thankfully :)
Thank goodness he didn't need to have surgery. But I bet the "extraction" was a bit painful. Lol
Load More Replies...Whenever i open the freezer my dog likes to lick the trays, must be the cold they like. Kody sounds like a awesome buddy, RIP Kody.
My Weird Addiction Episode 21: Kody was just 3 years old when he ate his first cue ball
my dog ate my grandma's fasle teeth. shat them out the next day all over the garden. so funny i was about to choke myself with laughters
I had a chocolate lab/blue healer named Koda he was the most beautiful dog I've ever seen his eyes were the color of butterscotch and his fur was bluish grey with Carmel spots. he was also the smartest dog I've ever kniwn. he also decided to mark his territory one night when I was sitting on the floor and peed on the back of my head lol.
I have a giant Maine-coon Siamese mix tomcat. His thing is to bring up laundry from the basement during the night. The weird thing is that he's pretty good at taking clothes into the right rooms. I don't know if he does it by smell or what - but it's pretty normal for me to wake up to a pile of my socks, my daughters some of theirs, etc. He also chirps and meows the entire time he's making his deliveries - which is pretty funny in and of itself.
My cat did the same thing, just with stuffed animals. You could not enter the house without spotting a few on the floor. So cute <3
Am I the only one who NEEDS pictures of this cat? A Maine-c**n Siamese mix sounds stunning.
When I was a teen we had 2 kittens (sisters.) Mine would steal my socks and pants (and eventually my mums) and her sister who "belonged" to my brother would only take his. Miss them both so much <3
My cat likes to shower with me. He will sit and drink the water as it runs until i use shower gel, then he will sit on the edge silently judging me for contaminating our lord water.
Yep. We had one that liked to sit in the far end of the tub while I showered, steaming his fur. I think he thought it was a special cat spa. He's be fairly damp when he got out, but he did it at least twice a week. ...///... One of the cats we have now LOVES sitting on the edge of the tub and dibbling her paws in the hot water. After we drain it, she'll get into the still-warm tub (we put Pink insulation in the tub surround to keep the water hot) and hang out until it cools off.
Load More Replies...my cat loves to drink the soapy water after I have a shower...
My cat used to as well until she got a massive UTI. You might want to ban your cat from the bathroom during bathtime. We had to.
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My dog likes to sit in the bathtub during the summer, most likely because it's cooler than the floor or her bed. Totally harmless unless you're going to the bathroom in the middle of the night and think there's a killer in your shower.
It is cooler in there. Used to have a cat would chase her tail in there . Because old tub / old house / acoustics it was terrifying noise to wake up to in middle of night.
Cats are smart. I learn from them where is best place to be. We cannot afford air conditioning. When it is too hot here ( 35 C or over ) I lie in the bath. With a book, cold drinks. Do *not* add water, just the old fashioned metal tub sucks heat away from body. It gets cold pretty quick when we have a hot bath :((
Load More Replies...has anyone seen those "relatable tweets" about having to check behind the curtain for monsters? i don't get it. why not just keep the curtain open?
My dog has 'takeaway' every time she eats. She won't stand at her bowl. She stuffs her mouth full of dry food and then sits near me wherever I am, spits out all her food and eats it one bit at a time. When she is finished it she repeats it all.
Mine too..he took the food to the dining room we never ate in and ate there instead.
Load More Replies...OMG, I thought we were the only ones!! We have wood floors, and the round kibble looks just like a knot in the wood when you’re staring down at it, only to damn near break your ankle if you step on it!
One of our dogs does this. Another one eats at the food dishes, but growls at anything that moves while she’s eating... including whatever’s moving on the television.
My pup does this because he doesn't like eating alone, he needs human company or he will completely ignore his food.
My dog can't go anywhere without his toy. My girlfriend calls it his "girlfriend". If we go outside he will bring the little stuffed animal with him and drop it somewhere. If we tell him to "go find your girlfriend" he will search frantically for it until it's found.
Most of the world is not Gay. 10% is the highest estimate and the study was flawed
Load More Replies...My dog loves stuffed toys. She has lots of them and she hides them everywhere! She remembers what I call them. If I say "Where's Blue?" She will go get her blue bunny. If I say, "Bring me a toy", she will bring me a random one.
My pet rat, Doctor, likes to poop when she is hanging from the bars of her cage and making eye contact with me or my fiancee. She knows it makes us uncomfortable. She don't care.
"Hey. Hey you. Human. Look at me" *poops "ahaha you should've seen your face"
My dog can sense when I'm about to fart and will stick his nose near my ass crack to smell it and then run away in disgust after. I have no idea why he continues to do it when it clearly annoys him
Funniest *6th Sense" ever. I wonder if he can smell if while it's still inside? Side note- my mom once farted so much that her dog got woozy and actually puked. She was on some medication that caused lots of gas. Funniest thing I will ever see. Dog was fine after some *fresh* air.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/columnists/jim-stingl/2018/11/30/womans-dog-detects-her-ovarian-cancer-three-times/2154700002/
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My oldest dog Oden likes to lock himself in our rooms and climb out the windows onto our roof. Take a look its hilarious
Do you get neighbours or passersby trying to tell you "your dog is on the roof" , if i walked past i would probably do that.
How many people stop to let you know there's a dog on their roof? I imagine everyone is very concerned and doesn't want the dog to get hurt, but dog obviously likes it out there!
We have a Great Dane/greyhound mix named Keelah who, on occasion, absolutely must sniff my boyfriend's belly button. I've never seen a dog get so derpy about it before. She'll jump up and put her paws on his shoulder and stick her nose in his stomach until he gives in and pulls his shirt up so she can sniff. She's really, really weird.
Has he (Boyfriend) been to the doctor recently? Maybe the dog is smelling a medical condition. Not likely, I know, but it not unheard of either.
Holy cow I grew up with a Great Dane named Keelah! She was the best, and so so derpy
or need to wash that belly button deeply: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320706.php
My boyfriends cat loves to snuggle up on people's chests and then slooowly and veeery gently place her paw (with claws out and toes spread) and just .. place it on their mouth. Does anyone know what the heck she's trying to get out of this?
one of my cats does this too, mouth or nosetip. she either keeps the paw there for a while, or gently proceeds to stroking my cheek. i think it's a way to show her affection, maybe also letting me know she considers me her peer?
My cat does that and I can tell that she wants something. She either wants attention, or new food, or whatever, but she's trying to tell you very calmly to Pay Attention, G-ddamit.
My cat does this too. He also usually starts to play with his tail while sitting on my chest.
My lardass cat has this weird cake infatuation. (Ha ha I know). Not to eat. She likes to lay on them. I can't count how many cooling cakes I had to throw out because she decided to take a nap on them. I have to hide them somewhere to cool and frost. I also had to buy a solid cake saver because she would lay on my old one and crush the lid into the cake. My favorite was when my son turned one, we had the unwrapped cake sitting on the counter waiting for cake time, and she tried to lay in it. When I came in to get it all the frosting is pulled off in the center and one pissed off frosting covered cat under my bed. Yet she still does it.
Same as laptops. Also (unlike laptops) they are soft main-qimg-...fd73a1.jpg
As well as warm Also gets a reaction, cats will do things to get us to pay attention to them, if they are bored/ feeling lonely.
I'm sure sitting on the cakes got her a lot of attention. :-)
Load More Replies...My dog smiles whenever he wants something. He started showing his teeth when he got excited to see us after long periods of times (i.e. vacations) and we would say "What a pretty smile!" He made the connection to the word and now will do it on command and pretty much whenever he wants our food. Kind of like a "hey look I'm smiling, I'm pretty!" Some people probably think it's bad that he does it because he's technically showing his teeth, but you can tell it's not aggressive or in a bad way. I think it's hilarious.
My dog smiles too, it's the goofiest thing ever. She's rather tall and slim and she's smiling and showing her teeth and gums every time she gets our attention, after that she starts running and hopping around like a miniature wild horse.
Ok seriously you gotta post a picture. If we could get a picture of the dog on the roof, you can post a picture of your dog smiling for the camera!
That's probably what's known as a 'play-grin'. It can signify that they want to play with you, or from experience sometimes when they're happy or excited. My little Cavoodle does it, too. And it's adorable.
You can tell if it's aggressive or not from other body language. Normally a tail wag will make it obvious, but the ears pulled back also helps convey their emotion. And yes, I do study canine and feline behaviour.
Load More Replies...I thought my friends dog was unhappy to see me, but my friend said she is smiling at me !
We had a rescued Pitt Bull who would smile like that at the Pizza Delivery Man. Scared him at first till we pointed out the frantically wagging tail stub. He was just happy to see the Pizza Crust Provider at his house again.
I met a smiling golden retriever once named Rosie. I am 100% relieved that I recognized her body language. Any furbaby person can see the ears and tail and know they're thrilled to say hello! We'd moved into a house in MN and Rosie came running over, big toothy smile and all!, to say hi! Sweetest critter. She had one litter of pups all of which inherited her sunny smile. ^_^
Our cat pulls my dresser drawer open and sleeps in the socks after he arranges them into a cozy "cat bed" for himself.
When our female princess kitty was still a tiny floof she spent her first night sleeping in a furry drawer with a scarf over it to block out the light because cats.
Mine empties the drawer of all the things in it then lays in it. Keep coming home to my clothes on the floor
Our golden retriever has 3 comfort blankets that he folds and carries around with him.
My SO's dog, Lola, farts when we enter the car. Everytime.
Must have the same issues as my son, who also farts every time he gets in the car.
My dog does the same thing, only when he's standing up with his head out the window though. It's terrible!
My best friend's kitten (to whom I am a kitten aunt by proxy) has a new habit of running down the stairs at top speed and launching himself onto the sofa. She swears he's either going to kill her with a heart attack or he's going to f**king miss the sofa and go claws-first into her face, and she's not sure which.
Cupcake used to use the length of our apartment to build up speed to rocket up the back of my rocking chair, digging in her claws at the top and enjoying the wild rocking until it died down. Second verse, same as the first.
Mine used to come barreling from the back of the house, bound up the rocker to the top, then dig in her claws and get flung back and forth until the rocking stopped.
My parrot is obsessed with ears. He will happily spend 15-20 minutes delicately nibbling on the rim of my ear, carefully scraping his beak around the inside, and licking all over. Last time I saw my doctor for a physical and she got to the otoscope part of the exam, she exclaimed, "Wow, your ears are remarkably clean!" Gee, I wonder why...
My lovebird pecks my earlobe when I stop paying him attention, then if I tell him to stop he starts nibbling the rim like "what, no, I was just cleaning you, not pecking at all, nope ºvº"
He's preening you. It's a sign of affection. My parrot used to do this. Then he decided he was in love with my husband and things got weird. He would act like he wanted to get affectionate with me, then he would bite me, fly onto my husband and start preening him. He started breaking out of his cage just to attack me. We had to find him a new home.
My cat chews through bags to eat bread. Doesn't matter the container or the type of bread. And because he drools he can dissolve any kind of paper bag in a minute. It's bizarre but he was a stray so I figure he used to do that to survive.
My Cat does this if i don't feed her exactly when she wants to be fed, except she doesnt eat the bread, just wrecks the loaf....probably out of rebellion to be a little b***h lol. I always forget to put my bread away too
I hide the bread in the microwave to prevent that because my cat does it too :)
My boy Mochka does that with bread. And tortillas. When we took in two foster kittens he fell absolutely in love with them-- would sleep on top of their cage, played with them, kept them clean and warm. One day I took a loaf of bread out of the fridge (our way of keeping the bread safe) and left it on the counter. Five minutes later I come back in... no bread. Not on the floor, his usual place to eat it. Nope, he dragged through the hall into the kitten room, and stuck it next to the kitten cage. He's such a great big brother.
I had a cat who did that, so we keep the bread in the microwave, even though he has been dead for 8 years...
My friend's cat has to have gluten free food and if you don't put bread products up high they'll eat them.
You know how cats, especially kittens will "nurse" on things? Like knead their paws and suck on something like a blanket? Yeah, my 10 year old dog does that.
I've seen this when the animal was taken away from it's mom too soon
Some cats just do this. Even when taken at the right age.
Load More Replies...My 5 year old bulldog has (what’s left of) a stuffed bunny he got when he was 2 months old. He still uses it as pacifier at bedtime.
I had two sister cats and Muffin decided she wanted to suckle on Cupcake. Cupcake did her best to fend Muffin off, failed, eventually gave up and started suckling on herself.
But it can also happen when a kitten/puppy is weaned too late., They get in the habit of being comforted by that kneading. I once had a cat that use to do that for hours but would also drool while kneading.
When i got my cats Cupcake and Muffin (sisters), Muffin started suckling on Cupcake, who found it annoying...at first. Soon, Cupcake started suckling, too - on herself!!
My cat loves to watch the toilet flush for some reason - he would even come running from other rooms in his house at the sound of a flush when he was younger. I guess it's mostly harmless, but I have found toys in the toilet before the lid down rule was put in place (my assumption is so that he can watch them zoom around too).
my cat pees in the toilet. which is awesome till you come home and there's been cat urine sitting in the toilet all day. Can smell pretty bad. So we decided to keep the lid closed. Then he decided that wasn't gonna stop him, and pees in the sink. So needless to say the bathroom door stays shut all the time now.
My kittens think going to the bathroom means it is snuggle time. They run in and jump on your lap and want you to pet behind your ears.
My cat licks walls. often for 10 minute intervals. i wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of his sandpaper tongue scritch-scratching at the wall.
Mine licks the bedsheet she is lying on (on my bed), most times after licking/bathing herself. I've been trying to make her quit doing it for years now.
Try using essential oils in the final rinse when you wash them. Usually cats hate citrus / lavender / eucalyptus. You'll need to experiment to get the right ones for you and cat.
Load More Replies...He may have a calcium deficit, next time you go to the vet be sure to tell them about this. Before I was born my parents had a dog that would eat the corners of the walls for this reason. But I have also seen my birds do this and they have calcium treats around so maybe they just like the flavor... Just in case, tell the vet.
I was going to say the same thing, we've had cats who lick the concrete path in the back garden when they're unwell.
Load More Replies...Same! Also when I come home or he is happy ... or bored... or basically just whenever he encounters a wall, a chair or plastic bottles
My cat licks shopping bags if I leave them on the floor. That flish flish noise, very annoying.
My cat used to sit on my couch, like a person would with her 2 back legs outstretched in front of her, and then proceed to bend down and suck on her own nipples while purring very loudly. It was weird.
Oh, my! I have a female dachshund who likes to, um, go down in herself. She gets really into it too.
My dog is extremely careful about begging for food. She knows that she'll be banished if she stares and drools, but if she doesn't actually look at the food she technically isn't begging. Here's a picture of her pointedly ignoring some jerky.
Good pupper. My doggo's would take that stuff immediately, they're bad boi's.
She stares at me while I sleep. From 3" away. When I open my eyes all I see are these huge solid black eyes in a weirdly diagonal white face. I wake up convinced that I have been abducted by aliens.
i have a cat who does this but she will dribble and one morning it went in my mouth, and this morning the dribble went in my eye, not nice !
After I take a shower, my collie mix insists on rolling in my towels. When I have the towel on my head and I'm laying down.. He tries to roll in it. If I'm sitting with the towel on my head, he tries to roll in it. Then when I inevitability throw them on the floor he has a field day.
he's gotta get his scent back on you! He's being dominant and doesn't want anyone else to have you! LOL
My German shepherd is a hoarder. He has a hiding spot behind a chair and underneath a table, and he's been building a stash that we have to go in every week or so and clean out. Usually it's just wrappers and random s**t he "sneaks" out of our trash cans. This last weeks clean out consisted of 3 of my oven mitts and a pudding cup. He doesn't chew on anything, he just likes to have stuff.
We had a cat that was a thief. She had different stashes around the house, but the biggest was in the back of a closet. On one occasion, I found about 20 milk tops, a spoon (?!), a roll of electrical wire that she could only have stolen from the cable guy, three socks, a tube of mascara (new, still in the box), and a computer mouse.
My taco terrier has a stash of random junk under my bed. She does chew on stuff, so I have to check every night to see what she dragged under there
My rescue dog stashed the first tug toy and rawhide bone that I gave her in her bed. She would take them out and lick them occasionally and bury them in her bed again. She played with and chewed all the other things she got. Kept her emergency stash til she passed
My chihuahua sneaks to her water dish. We have no idea why. She does this almost every day at varied times. If her water is dirty or if the dish is empty she will keep sneaking until the situation is fixed.
I had to google to understand this - from https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sneaking sneak = British Informal . to tattle; inform. So she tattles or chatters or "speaks" (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tattle) to her water dish?
See I’m British & I thought of the slyly-moves-around version of sneaking. It actually made sense to me because our chihuahua sneaks (like a spy) everywhere...
Load More Replies...If my dog needs water, she goes in the bathroom and barks at the tub. That's the only place she knows that water definitely comes from.
We don't have pets in the main country the Netherlands where we reside but we got a ton of them in my fathers country Russia. We own a big piece of ground and a forest, with 23 white Russian wolves and 3 Caucasian owcharkas. The wolves have some weird habits and one of them is that they greet each other and their pups by friendly biting them in their neck, it still that scares the shit out of guests and relatives that we usually have over.
Had to Google Owcharkas. What a beautiful breed of Dog!! White wolves are so majestic! You are most fortunate to have them in your life.
African wild dogs (also known as painted wolves) have ritual behavior patterns including greeting others by licking faces and such. Their pups are also very aggressive with each other. Maybe they are related way back in the DNA chain with your wolves.
Owcharka reminds me of an industrial sized Norwegian elkhound. Handsome!
My cat would be happy with his eyes closed purring and layed down my side and then suddenly look in the direction of the corner of the room with his eyes completely open. When I look there's nothing there. It's scary
something might have echoed off from that location that the cat picked up on
I heard some can see heat and air fluctuations, I have 8 and only 1 does that.
My dog does this. My husband asked me one night what she was looking at. I casually replied, "Probably something evil. Goodnight", then I turned out the light and went to bed. He got totally freaked out and kept asking me what I meant. I admitted I was messing with him. We live in an old house in the country. The dog probably heard a mouse or the wind outside.
My cat talks to herself if she thinks no one is around. I'll come home or go to a side of the house that I haven't been in all day and hear her meowing and chirping and howling. Once she realizes I'm there, she'll stop. I've been able to sneak up on her a couple of times and it's pretty bizarre to watch. She'll just be walking around the room making sounds. She doesn't do it that often. I wish I could catch it on video
or she's a secret cat agents that reports when you aren't there
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My dog does this little boner dance whenever he has a boner. He slides across the floor and humps the air rapidly until his doggy-boner goes down.
I started petting my cat once, cradeling him like a baby, and then his wee-wee started doing its thing RIGHT THERE
My cat swats/punches his water dish a few times before drinking it. It splashes everywhere. No clue why. Just thought of something else! He is long haired floofy cat (peach/blondie), and we have a fuzzy blanket similarly coloured. My cat often licks it to clean it, mistaking it for himself.
I have a blind cat. He goes up to the water dish (his and the dogs) and meows really loudly in them before drinking. I've figured out he does it so he can tell where the water level is, so he doesn't face plant in the water. He's so amazing!
Most cats do not have good depth perception. It is very common for them to do something to cause surface movement so they do not get a nose full of water. Thus the popularity of drinking fountains for cats.
Have had to take in mother-in-law,s cat, who we were told would cry until you turned the tap on for her. Well, no way am I doing that ! So I covered all the taps with long pieces of kitchen roll so she can't see them, and then flicked at the water in the dish so it moved and now she drinks from the water dish. Only took 2 days to accomplish this, good kitty! (and the kitchen roll on the tops is no longer necessary).
Load More Replies...Cats like moving water over still water. That’s why the punching and sloshing.
I work at a shelter which has cats, and we usually have at least one cat in that does something like flick the water in the bowl everywhere Sometimes it's very obviously something they've learnt gets our attention; if they splash water all around, we see it on their pod window and open the door to wipe it up and give them some attention usually However, there's some cats who do it who are scared of us and refused to clean be touched, so I don't know if it's deliberate to get us to come over because they're curious about us, but don't want direct attention and petting Sometimes they're just really f*****g messy. Toys get thrown into bowls and splash everywhere and we has this one mum who taught all her kittens to make a huge wet mess for some reason. That may have also been for attention for her initially, but it's how they just learnt to interact with a water bowl. It's like they didn't know how to use it without making a mess
Some cats will only drink water that is moving. That's why I have a pet water fountain. My theory is that a cat ancestor died after drinking water that was stagnant and from then on all the descendants would only drink water that was moving.
One of our cats will climb up onto the back of our couch while we're watching a movie or something and loudly clean his butthole.
My cat nurses on his own tail. He will creepily come up and lay really close to you, curl in a ball, and start sucking away at the end of his tail. Sometimes he'll even look you in the eye while he does it. I know it's a comfort thing to him, I found him alone when he was just a baby, but it's a pretty weird thing to do.
My cat did that when she was a kitten, but that's one thing she grew out of. She does still chase her tail at almost 10 years old, however.
Step 1: Drop the tennis ball into my hand so I can throw it across the room for him to fetch Step 2: Retrieve the tennis ball and start gnawing on it with his head halfway under the couch Step 3: Drop the ball and have it roll to an unreachable distance under the couch Step 4: Stare at me and moan loudly until I am convinced to walk over to the couch the ball is under and lay on the floor, struggling to reach far enough. Eventually I just lift the couch so he can get far enough underneath it to grab the ball back Repeat incessantly
Our dog is pretty weird about 'fetch' too. Throw the ball, he'll run after it... then he'll gallop around the yard joyfully while making playful growls with the ball still in his mouth. He doesn't want to give the ball back for some reason. Yet he's really happy if you do somehow manage to get the (now grossly slobbered on) ball from him and throw it again.
my dog does this. Only once I thow it (mind you she will only play fetch inside, with certain balls) she stares at it and then looks at me like "WTF did you do?" goes and gets it only to bouce it next to any piece of furniture where it is out of reach and cry until I get up and get it back for her... aaaaaaaand repeat.
I was trying to play fetch with a newly adopted dog. We were outside. I threw the ball. He immediately chased after it. When he picked it up, he turned and looked at me, then ran off into the woods and buried it. I tried showing him with my other dog (who knew how its done). He watched a few times, then we tried again. Same thing. Ran off in the woods and buried it. Lol.
We have this same issue, so we keep a yardstick handy. It stays on the shelf of our coffee table and makes for easy toy retrieval when a ball or something goes under the couch.
My pit asks for permission every night before getting in bed with us. We have never told him to stay off of furniture, but he always asks. He does that weird howl/growl/bark thing that "talking" dogs do.
our bulldog does that too! Only he doesn't make a sound. He'll put his head on the bed and keep sighing till we say ok, come on.
Our cat Bob is exactly the same! He’s never been told to stay off the furniture, yet when we are led in bed or the on the sofa, he meows and meows and meows until we make the “Kissy” sound, pat next to us and say “Up-a-Dee Bob Bob”....it has to be in that exact order too!
He sounds wonderfully polite and intelligent. Thank you for helping people understand how great pitties are!
Leo, my jack rat, always asks for permission to hop into my bed as well. It's weird because I have never told him to stay off. Except he doesn't talk, he'll gently tap the bed or me, to make sure he can get on.
My male cat likes to stand in the corner, face the wall, and sing the song of his people. My female kitten likes to meow at me and then hide when I walk over to pet her. She's a jerk.
My dog (a husky) will make a gap in his food with his snout, then will yowl at the nearest human like he's hungry and there's no food in the bowl, until you pick his bowl up, shake the gap out and put it back down again. He will eat it then!
My cat does something similar. She eats her dry food until she sees the bottom of the bowl in the middle between some chunks of it, looks for me, I shake it and she continues eating (or I fill the bowl up, depends how much is still left in the bowl, if I'm busy at the moment and on my mood)
Same! My cat freaks out if she sees the bottom of her dry food bowl. Even if there's still quite a bit in there. I guess they see it as being empty.
Load More Replies...could it be a problem with peripheral vision? like they can only just see what is in front of them, so when the see the bottom of the bowl they think there isn;t any more?
My cat will sit in the bathtub for hours and meow at passersby to turn the water on for him. Then when someone finally gives in, he will splash around for about a minute and then go drag his big wet furry feet over someone/my pillow. Every morning he will excitedly hang over the edge of the bathtub, waiting for me to turn on the shower. Once I do, it takes him about two seconds to realise what's going on, and then he panics and scrambles as fast as he can out of the tub. Weirdo.
Not sure if this counts but my snake falls off of everything. Put him around your neck he falls off. He falls while trying to climb up or down my chair, desk, and always plops off my bed if I am not watching him. He will even get excited smelling something so he will point his head straight up and extend his body up until he falls backwards belly up. Will also do this while swallowing his food.
sounds like stargazer or head wobble, esp if you have a ball python. I am so sorry.
My cat "nurses" on a blanket we have. But only if the blanket is on me. It's like the little f**ker actually thinks I am his mother. He's strange. He also likes to play fetch and attack people who come over to visit. Weirdo.
It's called "wool sucking" and it's what cats do who were separated from their mothers too early. It's pretty common. The rule now is that kittens should be left with their mothers for AT LEAST 12 weeks.
Actually, a lot of cats do that. Be honored he sees you as his guardian angel.
My cat left his mother when he was 3 months old. He nurses that on me for 15 years.
Load More Replies...My cat does that, it’s cute but she will only do it if it is on me so I have deemed myself her official mother
Sounds EXACTLY like my cat! Is he striped? My theory is striped cats are likely to be crazy.
Anytime we Hoover a carpet my Jack Russell has to 'swim' all over it, because God forbid it not have his fur on it :) Also, he regularly sneakily drinks our cups of tea.
One of my three cats is a monster. He is kinda fat but stocky/muscular too. He is 6 and weighs about 20 pounds. Anyways, he will lick plastic bags. We are always afraid he will suffocate himself because he will stick his head down inside the bag and lick for as long as we'll let him. He also steals paper clips. My mom was working on her doctorate and she had mountains of papers and a lot of paperclips on them. The crazy cat would dig through all of the papers and pull off the paper clips with his teeth. And he hid them all under the rug that was under the couch so we couldn't see them. And he plays very rough. We found out the hard way that he enjoys being spanked. We caught him fighting another cat and gave him a tap on the behind to get him to stop, and he fell on the floor and started purring. And when I scratch his chin, he isn't happy until I scratch as hard as I physically can, to the point where I think I'm gonna dig up all of his fur.
1) It's pretty common. 2) It CAN be dangerous (accidental ingestion of a bag that's already ripped) 3) therefore don't let your cats do this.
Load More Replies...Well if he likes being spanked perhaps he also likes being choked
one of my cat (a big siamese male) EATS plastic bags. i once caught him chewing away a huge plastic sheet in the neighbour's yard, he's remodeling the house and works are taking forever, his garden's cluttered with construction materials all over.
My friend has a really bizarre cat, she loves to be spanked. She will lie down with her butt in the air for people to pat her right above the tail. The harder the better. She also loves to be spun around on an office chair, she jumps up on the back of it and holds on with her claws to be spun around. Spinning + smacking her butt every time she passes = kitty bliss. My rat loved snot and would grab all my used tissues to lick inside them.
Laguhed so hard that I choked on my coffee so thanks for that
Load More Replies...Your cat likes having the base of its tail whacked because it simulates cat copulation. Just saying...
Mum's cat loved playing wall of death in the laundry basket. She would climb in and wait for me to pick it up and spin round really fast.
My husband does this to our cats and calls it Mercury A*s Rev, I think it is in relation to a song or a band......
She won't eat unless both my husband and I are seated in the family room watching TV. It's pretty inconvenient on busy days.
My sisters cat would refuse to eat unless she was within touching distance. But only when my sister was feeding him. If I or my mum fed him, he didn't care, and would just eat whenever. My sister feeds him, and he goes all drama, "cannot eat w/out you!"
My cat is afraid of the dishwasher, I guess. Not the sound of the dishwasher running, the sound of me taking s**t out of it and putting it away. He is mostly silent, maybe a welcome meep when I get home. But the dishwasher...man. Mayhem. It's been seven years and he still freaks the f**k out every single time.
My cat Miles will run to the other side of the house and meow to his brother Murphy. You can tell it's a "Hey!! Come check this out!" and he'll keep doing it until Murphy finally gets up and goes to look. Sometimes though, Murphy says eff that and stays where he is, leaving Miles to meow at nothing for like an hour. Finally he'll show up and look at Murphy like, "Didn't you hear me!!?" No but we did!
My Australian Shepherd likes to sneeze in the clean laundry as it comes out of the dryer. It has turned into a two person job to get laundry done without dog sneezes on it. One to distract the dog and the other to hustle the laundry into the basket and to safety.
My cat, O'Malley, will always smell a new person's shoes when I bring people over. When he is finished, he looks over at me and makes a stupid face.
Your cat is Inigo Meowtoya. He is looking for the six toed man who killed his father.
My English bulldog Shelby will sit with her back to me and try and look at me upside down by leaning back until she falls down. She does the same thing in the car. I thought it might be vertigo but she just really seems to enjoy it.
My male dog licks my female dogs cooch after she pees, then his lips and jaw quiver as he drools. Freakin weirdo.
My cat licks people...all the time and all over. It's odd when you wake up in the middle of the night being licked and realize it's not the dog doing it.
My cat sometimes licks my fingers when I try to pet her and then bites them (not too gently but without drawing blood either), until I stop. She was only once likcing my face.
If you get a Cat to English translation book you will see that it means stop that.
Load More Replies...One of my cats likes to get in the lower branches of bushes (and the Christmas tree, as it turns out) and just chill. Just sit there in the branches, eight inches off the ground.
Not mine but my SO's dog, Bacon... Cannot poop unless he is backed up against something. When we first started dating I used to get to his apartment before he got off work so I would take the dog for a walk. Like any male Bacon must pee on everything to ensure its his. Which meant sometimes I didn't realize that he wasn't sniffing the same place to pee but to find the prefect article in which to place his butt against and would tug him along and ruin the whole process... Which meant about five minutes of the behavior or him deciding to hold it.
My dog likes to eat beaded jewelry. I shouldn't say eat, he sucks on it until it comes apart, and then he abandons it and acts innocent.
When I'm away from my husky for more than about eight hours she will likely howl at me and make a big deal, like she's cussing me out.
Run run run, locks up front legs slide slide slide, roll roll roll. How does she not break her neck?
😂 It does kind of sound like he kidnapped a woman or something and she's trying to get away from him. 😉
Load More Replies...My cat Wookie has an intense love of the bathroom. He will lay on the edge of the bathtub while I take a bath, will sit on the bathmat and watch us shower, and loves the toilet. He loves to watch it flush, likes to watch my husband pee (has gotten pee on his head from trying to watch from the wrong angle) and likes to try to pull toilet paper up out of the toilet while it is flushing, which is pretty gross. Weird cat.
My pancho gets super worked up and then immediately thinks he needs to drink water. This usually results in him coughing up any water he just drank and freaking out about coughing. My sisters mastiff likes to sit down next to your leg and lean on your leg and stare at you but he's so heavy he often pushes people over with his lean.
My dog take his blankey or his bed and will suck on it with his eyes closed. We assume he thinks he's nursing. He also occasionally humps his bed before sucking on it. Harmless but weird as s**t.
My cat likes hair ties. He swallowed one once and he proceeded to prance around the living room with the rubber piece hanging out of his asshole. I now have to hide them all so I'm not paying for surgery on his dumb ass. My dogs also go around licking each other's assholes and the cats assholes. They also won't sleep unless they are buried under a blanket. My female cat rubs her head on EVERYTHING and has a weird fascination with doing this on shoes.
female cats rub their head on things as a way to mark them, that's normal, and most likely the shoes have gone outside and another cats scent may have ended up on them slightly so they would try to override that
My GF's cat poops in the litterbox, then immediately tries to cover it by making digging motions on the floor/wall next to the litterbox. Never inside. Not sure if dumb or just a c**t.
A cat I petsit will sit in a litterbox, but in a way that her a*s is hanging off it and then s**t on the floor next to the box. Then proceed to try and bury the non existing poop inside the box, before leaving the room and the actual poop on the floor. Every. Single. Time.
EVERY cat does this. I think they're just trying to clean off their paws, when they start rubbing on the wall like that.
Normal. Get a larger box. Get at least one extra box. Try putting boxes in some different places. Also make sure you have plenty of scratching posts around the place.
*if you have 1 cat you need 2 boxes minimum. if you have 2 cats you need 3 boxes. if you have 3 cats you need 4 boxes. and so on.
Load More Replies...My Doberman likes to climb up in bed with my SO and I, and just stare at us while standing over one of us.
I think some of the nursing behavior is possibly from being weaned too soon, or security issues. My 7 lb. Yorkie poo liked to sit on our 110 lb chocolate lab- she'd eat food from his mouth too. They ran away together 5 times, had to bail them out of doggie jail. Miss them both terribly..
I once had a cat too dainty to stand properly in the litter box to do his business. He always perched with all four paws on the edge of the box... until the day it flipped over on him. After that he always planted one hind paw in the box behind him with the three remaining ones on that edge.
My cat has a thing going with his scratching post(well, scratching corner in our case, has 2 of those cat scratchy things hung next to each other on a corner). Normally he doesn't actually care for pats much but if it's at that thing, ooo...he'll purr loudly and just stand there, digging his paws in or moving them very slowly as you pat him all over - head, back, belly, better yet if on both sides at once. He'll actually bop your hand with his head if you stop patting, asking you to continue, which is something he literally *never* does otherwise - his normal reaction is to shy away from patting hand with a kind of 'ewww' expression. But there, I don't know...perhaps it's that we've always been telling him what a good boy he is whenever he used that thing and not our furniture(he's a good cat there, pretty much never claws anything else...on purpose, at least) so he's getting off all the praise...we still do it, he'll go there when he wants his op pats session and we'll praise him,
Our german shepherd akita mix loves shoes. She doesn't eat them anymore, but she would take just one shoe and take it in the middle of the yard. Then she would just lie there next to it. Sometimes she would have 4-5 different shoes out there in her collection. Weirdo. She also likes to be pet, so every time she wants some rubs she comes over and puts her paw on you and tries to pet you until you pet her. And if you stop, she'll do it all over again.
My cat absolutely HAS to hold hands when being carried. She also likes to climb onto our half walls and fall asleep between my pillows.
I was putting some baby oil on my skin and accidently spilt some onto my couch. My cat ran over and started licking it like it was a lollipop. I got her to stop and cleaned it up, but even for months later she still would come over and lick the same spot.
My cat MacGyver LOVES the sink. We move around a lot but he has never met a sink he didn't like. I went into the bathroom recently and he followed me and sat on the toilet cover (which was down) until I turned the sink on for him. Then he hopped onto the counter and let the water run down his cheek and he drinks the run off! He will also lay down in the sink while I shower and I once caught a picture of him winking at me from the sink.
My hedgehog, Franklin, is obsessed with shoes and feet. He often will bite your toes really hard and won't let go until you pry him off. He licks shoes incessantly if you leave them on the floor. He also tends to poop on his exercise wheel while he's running, which gets very messy.
I have a couple, My cat is adorable and sweet, but weird looking, her fangs poke out so she looks goofy, her tail is always in a corkscrew shape when happy, and the worst bit, an over-active a**l gland, so if you pick her up or she sits on your lap she gets excited and leaves a horrendous cat butt smell all over you. Still love her though! My parents have a Cockerpoo, and she has a thing for sniffing my crotch on a particular day every month, i now know when she does it my monthlies are due in a few days, she must be able to smell a change in hormones possibly? period psychic!
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I think some of the nursing behavior is possibly from being weaned too soon, or security issues. My 7 lb. Yorkie poo liked to sit on our 110 lb chocolate lab- she'd eat food from his mouth too. They ran away together 5 times, had to bail them out of doggie jail. Miss them both terribly..
I once had a cat too dainty to stand properly in the litter box to do his business. He always perched with all four paws on the edge of the box... until the day it flipped over on him. After that he always planted one hind paw in the box behind him with the three remaining ones on that edge.
My cat has a thing going with his scratching post(well, scratching corner in our case, has 2 of those cat scratchy things hung next to each other on a corner). Normally he doesn't actually care for pats much but if it's at that thing, ooo...he'll purr loudly and just stand there, digging his paws in or moving them very slowly as you pat him all over - head, back, belly, better yet if on both sides at once. He'll actually bop your hand with his head if you stop patting, asking you to continue, which is something he literally *never* does otherwise - his normal reaction is to shy away from patting hand with a kind of 'ewww' expression. But there, I don't know...perhaps it's that we've always been telling him what a good boy he is whenever he used that thing and not our furniture(he's a good cat there, pretty much never claws anything else...on purpose, at least) so he's getting off all the praise...we still do it, he'll go there when he wants his op pats session and we'll praise him,
Our german shepherd akita mix loves shoes. She doesn't eat them anymore, but she would take just one shoe and take it in the middle of the yard. Then she would just lie there next to it. Sometimes she would have 4-5 different shoes out there in her collection. Weirdo. She also likes to be pet, so every time she wants some rubs she comes over and puts her paw on you and tries to pet you until you pet her. And if you stop, she'll do it all over again.
My cat absolutely HAS to hold hands when being carried. She also likes to climb onto our half walls and fall asleep between my pillows.
I was putting some baby oil on my skin and accidently spilt some onto my couch. My cat ran over and started licking it like it was a lollipop. I got her to stop and cleaned it up, but even for months later she still would come over and lick the same spot.
My cat MacGyver LOVES the sink. We move around a lot but he has never met a sink he didn't like. I went into the bathroom recently and he followed me and sat on the toilet cover (which was down) until I turned the sink on for him. Then he hopped onto the counter and let the water run down his cheek and he drinks the run off! He will also lay down in the sink while I shower and I once caught a picture of him winking at me from the sink.
My hedgehog, Franklin, is obsessed with shoes and feet. He often will bite your toes really hard and won't let go until you pry him off. He licks shoes incessantly if you leave them on the floor. He also tends to poop on his exercise wheel while he's running, which gets very messy.
I have a couple, My cat is adorable and sweet, but weird looking, her fangs poke out so she looks goofy, her tail is always in a corkscrew shape when happy, and the worst bit, an over-active a**l gland, so if you pick her up or she sits on your lap she gets excited and leaves a horrendous cat butt smell all over you. Still love her though! My parents have a Cockerpoo, and she has a thing for sniffing my crotch on a particular day every month, i now know when she does it my monthlies are due in a few days, she must be able to smell a change in hormones possibly? period psychic!
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