What’s your pet’s most annoying habit?
This week’s Pet Tale comes from a comment on ajcpets.com by JM:
When I lived in suburbia, my cat would go hunt rabbits in the neighbors yard, then leave a half-eaten carcass on our front steps. Not a pleasant scene, but he was being a cat.
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Eating from the kitty litter box. GROSS!!!!
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My doggie has very sensitive skin…so he itches constantly. All night you can hear his tags dinging. We have tried every special shampoo, prescription, special diet. He still scratches all the time, poor little guy. I love him so much, and the sound drives me nuts.
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When BOTH the dog and cat are snoring in my bed
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Dog 1 - Squeaking at everyone she sees on a walk & shedding massive amounts of hair. Dog 2 - pooping in the middle of the road or on a sidewalk. Dog 3 - annoying loud pitched small dog bark that will go off at the slightest noise and fur that picks up every leaf she comes into contact with.
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Erin: I share your quest for itch relief. Lulu and I have tried everything. I have to remove her tags at night, or the jingling from her scratching will drive me crazy.
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First, let me just say that Mark’s comment is rude, tacky and classless — I’m thinking even my dog has better etiquette than Mark. Is there no end to the snide, racist comments posted on this board?! Good grief, this thread is about DOGS. Grow up!
That said, my dog’s annoying habit is that every morning at 5 am, she slaps my bed with her paw, repeatedly, until I drag myself up and let her outside into the backyard.
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I have a 3yr old 3lb chihuahua who steals more food then you can imagine. So we never leave our food on the sofa.
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Our terrier likes to sleep in the exact middle of the bed. We’ll move him to the side when we first go to sleep, and by midnight he’s wormed his way under the covers and between us again! He’s lucky he’s so darn cute (and small!).
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Announcing the fact that she has pooped in the box. Ruth will come out of the litter box with a different kind of meow. A loud one (not pain), when she poops. I swear she doesn’t like the smell and wants me to scoop it right now!
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boxers are known for being gassy. my Jasper is a very good boxer at times….
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I have two cats, Stumpy and Bones. About once every week they turn into “ninja” cats. I’ll be sound asleep, when all of a sudden they are attacking each other all over the apartment. Significantly, they love to bring their ninja fight to a frenzy up on my bed. I’ll sit up, groggy and in bad temper, and yell at them to stop. At that point, they stop and look at me as if I’m crazy, and stroll out of the bedroom as if nothing has happened. Like I said, this is normally a weekly happening. It’s a damn good thing I love them so much.
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Elliott, my 15lb very very spoiled cat, wakes me up (usually at 3am) so that I can let him out to drink out of the waterbowl in the other room. He has a waterbowl in our bedroom, but he prefers drinking in the guest bath!!!
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I feel you guys on the itchy doggies thing.
My great pyrenese mix was really itchy for the first few years. I tried everything, then I found wellness dog food, specifically the fish and sweet potato kind.
Its REALLY good for skin allergies.
I highly reccommend it. :o)
And, get some jojoba oil, pour it on your dog while you’re bathing them and let the oil and the soap sit for about five minutes before washing it off. They’ll hate it, but it’ll work!
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Our cat Mookie will be completely relaxed on one side of the couch and then see you coming to sit down on the other side of the couch, and while you are lowering yourself to sit, he will sprint toward that exact spot of the couch, so that you almost end up sitting on top of him. I think he scores extra points in his mind if you are carrying a plate of food or glass of wine while trying to sit down and avoid him. Then of course, in true cat fashion, he has the nerve to be miffed when you push him out of the way. How rude we are!
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I own four shepherds..two females two males. My males are very messy while my females are very neat. My male shepherds will drop almost anywhere if I allow them. which I dont. I have to catch them in the act or about to squat..chase them off. Its amazing that the males are so messy and the females are so much cleaner and keep their areas much more nicer. THis is something I did not train them to do. The males just arent concerned and will drop wherever. Amazing.
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Our schnauzer has the smackiest lips. She’s always licking them after she drinks something and it lasts forever. Then she licks us, the floors, our hair (?), herself, whatever is available. Drives me batty! She’s the Gene Simmons of dogs.
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My Bulldog, Floyd the Barber, is not only very flatulent, OMG, it can peel paint, he also snores like a banshee! And he like to spoon in the bed. I can hardly tell him from my husband with the lights off! Good thing they’re both pretty cute.
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I have two cat siblings, Smokey & Buscus, one if not both will be asleep on our bed and when it’s bedtime they move off the bed - how courteous - but after we get into bed they both start running & jumping and fighting and chasing each other until I call their names, that however only works part of the time.
I often have to get up and give them a treat before they settle in for the night.
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My cat farts.
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My dogs very annoying habits are as follows:
1. He ALWAYS takes food off the counter or table that he can reach.
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2. He thinks that our trash can is a smogasboard. He opens the trash can and take out whatever he wants and eat it and leave trash all over the house! (When we are either upstairs or not home)…
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The females even groom better than the males..their coats are emaculate. however the males,especially the young male..coats,,stained from mud..few days old..u think he cares? his mother and sister would not allow mud on their coats pass a day. infact they hate to get their coats or feet wet! lol..now if that dont remind you of the fairer sex..i dont know what.
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I will be on my laptop relaxing in front of the tv, and my dog loves to come and knudge his head between my hand and the keyboard making me pet him!
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I will be on my laptop relaxing in front of the t.v., and my dog loves to come and nudge his head between my hand and the keyboard making me pet him!
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Our dog B Mac bugs us with his toy. He pushes it with his nose and will annoy you, until you turn the darn thing.
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our black lab, maddux, is a licker. i’ve checked it with a vet, she’s not crazy, she’s just a lab who likes to lick. A LOT.
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Charlie, my gorgeous maincoone kitty, loves to chew on anything made of paper. His tastes are varied..it can be the latest best selling novel, magazines and even the paper in my printer. He does not stop chewing until the item is the size of a nut. One night I actually hid a paperback under my pillow-only to find it totally ripped to shreds upon my return. What’s one to do when you love them so?
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I have a 95 pound black lab name Reno. His habit isn’t too bad but I think it is quite funny that as soon as I walk in the house from work, he will knock you over trying to get to his food, then gobbles the food like he hasn’t eaten in a week. Mind you, Reno is free fed!!!!
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Erin and co with itchy dogs:
Try the Quiet Spot dog tag silencer. I have one on my GSD, and it works very well. I also feed him the raw diet-no grains or glutens. Wellness or Solid Gold is a good alternative-and don’t forget about the treats-they are packed with grains and fillers. I only give meat or vegetable treats.
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My Basset Hound, Georgia, throws her food bowl over with her nose, spilling the contents out onto the floor, before she eats it. She barks at it. It’s a game for her. It is funny to watch. She doesn’t always eat it right away though so we all have to deal with it.
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Our cat loves to run out the door. It is a game to her and we have to chase after her to bring her back inside.
Our greyhound will lick his paws in the middle of the night for an hour at a time.
Our other cat begs for cereal in the morning and will try and rip the bowl from your grasp when it is time to drink the milk.
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I have a yorkie. Nearly everytime I sit down on the couch, he will come sit in front of me and just stare at me. It kinda creeps me out! He also sits around making Chewbaca like noises.
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Did I also mention the money laundering and illegal offshore accounts our cats have opened?
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Jumping on me! She’s 90 solid lbs and she still feels the need to jump up on me, and her nails scratch my legs up! I know she’s just a big ole loving baby….but still!
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So many animals, so many annoying habits:
The dog, Reba, a Shiba Inu, will come up to me on the sofa and tap my arm repeatedly until I pet her. She used to scratch all the time from itching until I started putting an allergy tablet in her food at night (vet gave me an approved list). She’ll also run from one end of the livingroom just to bounce off of the sofa and back again. Apparently, this is not uncommon for the breed.
Cat one, Olivia, will slip onto my lap the second I sit down. If I’m not around, she’ll sit in my spot until lap shows up. She lives for lap. She’ll follow lap. Tried doing yoga in living room and she sat on my lap. Eating a table, she’ll find a way to get to lap. She’s 17 so I let her get away with it.
Cat two, Winston, licks everything. Walls, doors, vents, windows, baskets, purses, etc. Very annoying when you’re trying to sleep and he’s licking the wall right outside the bedroom. Or the door, or the floor.
Cat three, Conner, likes to listen to himself talk. He’ll go into the hallway and yell at the top of his lungs. I’d rather he licked everything.
We have another cat, Naja, but the only time we see her is when I feed them. We’ve done everything to socialize her, but after 6 years we’ve just decided to let her live her life somewhere in our house and show up for dinner.
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I have 3 dogs, each with their annoying albeit cute ways. Dog 1 Barks at the dishwasher and bites the door. Dog 2 Licks my pillow. Dog 3 Taught Dog 1 to bark at the dishwasher.
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My 11 year old Viszla [Pennie] has adopted a new schedule which has me waking up to a cold nose on my arm or face @ 3AM every morning to let her outside. This all started when we had Family visit for about 3 weeks and they kept late hours. Obviously, Pennie fancies herself as a NightOwl now. My god-on-Earth… I need her to get back to sleeping all through the night!
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Bella my 1year old pitbull moves branches in my back yard while I cut the grass. I try to train her to move them out of my way, but she insist on creating barriers in the backyard. Then after she’s done moving LARGE tree limbs, she begins to chew at the lawnmower wheels and bark at it as if it was a monster coming to chew her up. I can’t get mad, she’s so cute running around the lawnmower. Wish I could train her to stack fallen limb in the back of the yard instead of dropping them in plain view.
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Erin, have you tried getting wheat, corn and soy out of your dog’s diet? Skin conditions often are caused by food allergies. You might want to try taking your dog down to a single meat/carb food for a few months and see if that helps.
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Erin–have you considered the idea of adding spoon of olive oil to your doggie’s food? Our dog has a similar issue and we learned that the oils are good for their skin and even helped alleviate some of the itching. Plus it helps the furs be shiny which is a nice when the dander seems to make them look dull.
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Our vet suggested benadryl tablets 3 a day for our Shih Tzu’s itching/ allergies. As long as we are consistent, he is fine. We also are pro-active with flea treatments.
we have a cat that insists on sucking my husband’s ear. He started as a tiny kitten and we thought he would out grow it - but 12 years and 15 lbs later, he is still at it.
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My males gas problem could clean out an open bank vault. Rank. Worse than that is the self cleaning at 2 in the morning where he licks himself in a manner that is nothing short of disgusting. I have to run him out of the room. Yuck.
Other than that and a little slobbing though they’re great dogs. LOL
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He knocks on the back door, all the time. comeing in or going out. I let him out he knocks bring him back in he knocks.
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For those with the collar jingling problems– I think you can get rubber things that go around their tags (like you can for keys to differentiate them) that keeps them from making noise.
For us, Seamus has a farting issue, except he only does it when he comes up on my lap and cuddles. I swear, he is such a man.
He also humps the others a lot. He is fixed and has been since before we had him. I think it is a dominance thing.
Connor sleeps inbetween me and my husband and gives him the head and me the butt. Which is fine until he decides to kick and stretch out his legs in the middle of the night, which usually ends in my getting paws in the face.
Finlay just likes to be in my lap all the time. It’s cute and sweet, but not at all hours of the day. And if Finlay is up there, then Seamus MUST be there, too (and sometimes farting).
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For those noisy tags that interrupt your sleep…Wag-A-Lot sells a great Tag Silencer. A little velcro pouch that you tuck the tags into then attach to the collar…best $6 I ever spent!
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About once a week Dank (my male Doberman) will catch, kill and bring a dead animal to me. It’s usually an opossum. I know it’s in their nature to hunt, but it’s so gross.
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My cat Bootsy licks the underside of the kitchen cabinets! He also wakes me up every morning at 5:30 am so he can drink water from the bathroom sink. The running water in the fountain I bought for him must not taste as good!
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StormeeCat likes my computer screen. Usually, she’s laying on her back looking up but when she spies something she wants to play with, she starts clawing at the screen and will even swat me if I try to get her to stop. AND…don’t even think of printing something. She runs from whatever part of the house she’s in and dives into the papar tray!
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My Chihuahua has to be licking me constantly. I thought it was a puppy thing, but he’s 16 months old now and hasn’t stopped licking. Good thing he’s so cute!
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I have a very large boxer, and she loves to lick my pants legs every time I get out of the car when I come home from work. This is super annoying because most of my work pants are dry-clean only, so I have to get my pants clean to get this big, smelly doggie drool spot off of my pants. Although I love to see her loping along to greet me when I get home, I dread the inevitable tongue-swipe I’ll get as soon as I put my foot on the ground.
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My 9 month old Shepherd/Chow mix will pull the liner out of his crate, swing it around and hump it just about every night. And his farts nearly knock me out!
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I have a 16lb cat that will only drink water by laying in front of his water bowl and sticking his paw in the water and drinking from his paw….too funny.
I have a pomeranian that for no reason gets a wild hair and tucks her butt and runs round and round like crazy until I guess she runs out of breath…I want what she’s taking!
Alot more for funnies for both of them but don’t want to write a book:-)
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My Golden Shepherd mix likes to steal things out of my closet. I’ve spent so much money at the Jockey store that I should buy stock. Also, she likes to attack both the lawn mower and the vacuum cleaner like they are monster intruders. She’s too cute, tho, for me to mind too much!
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My Chihuahua will not sleep in the beds that I buy him. He will eventually destroy them. This is the 3rd one I’ve bought this year and he wont let you touch them but he always sleeps on my pillows. I’ve endured this for eight years now but he’s so smart and cute how can you do anything about it.
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My yellow lab takes a mouthfull of food, walks into the dining room, spits the food out, and eats it piece by piece. She does this about 10 times for one dish of food. It takes her 20 minutes to eat.
That and she drinks more water than any dog I have ever known. She wont drink from a automatic bowl, and I have a pitcher I use to fill up her bowl, that I fill up at least 10 times a day. She is solely reponsible for the lower lake levels at Lanier.
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My cat Jeezy will knock over any cup just to see it spill over!
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My lab & lab/shepard, ages 10 & 11, can escape from all fences. The record is 3 minutes at my parent’s newly fenced backyard. They even taught themselves to climb a tree, so they can get over the fence.
A chain saw to the tree & quick-rite under the fence have stopped them for now - until they figure out how to take the pickets off the new picket fence. Yes, they have done that before.
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My boxer has some seriously rank gas, it will almost make you sick! I must say his most embarrassing habit would be when anyone is sitting on the couch he will back up and stick his nether region on their leg….. it doesn’t matter who it is!!!
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Bob Dog (lhasa-terrier mix, looks like Benji) is so dignified I suspect he was a British manservent in a previous lifetime. In order to get him to eat his high-fiber healthy crunch food, I have to coat Every. Single. Kibble. with a dab of canned catfood. Then he patiently waits for me to microwave it, make smacking yumyum noises (won’t eat without the noises)put his dish on the floor and leave the room. I’ve spyed on him, and this is what he does: he selects ONE piece of kibble. If it isn’t sufficiently coated with catfood, he delicately lays it on the kitchen floor and selects ANOTHER piece. Takes him bout an hour to eat, and by the time he’s done, he’s got a spiralling ring of kibble rejects around his dish that looks a little like a strand of DNA…The funniest part is while he does this, periodically he’ll sigh very, very deeply, like it’s really a shame you can’t get good help in the kitchen anymore. Poor, spoiled Bob Dog. I want his life.
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Pissing on my dining room floor after bringing him in from going to the potty.
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Every night at 9PM on the dot our cat Puff wants her catfish (canned food). She will start pawing at you and talking until you give her what she wants. If you ignore her she will settle down but if you move the slightest inch she will start up again. She loves that catfish.
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My cat, Diceman, loves to chew on plastic grocery bags. Once he finishes the grocery bags, he goes into the pantry and starts chewing on the napkin package. He also takes a mouthful of his food and carries into the den, dumps it out, and eats it one piece at a time. He is so much fun.
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My cat likes to wake me up in the middle of the night by playing with the blinds. He’s constantly trying to get in between the blinds to the see out the window. SOOOOOO annoying!
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I adopted my dog Izzie from the local Humane Society. They failed to tell me she can scale a 4ft chain link fence in a matter of seconds, therefore, she’s never outside alone. She’s also a klepto but through much training she now will exchange for a treat. But what can you do, you take an animal into your home, it becomes part of your family and you love ‘em inspite of their peccadillos.
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Danny - my lab attacks the lawn mower too, even when it’s in the garage. Should she be banned from the planet as well?
**cindy Acevedo** That was about the funniest thing I have read on this blog. Can’t get good help in the kitchen. ha ha ha ha ha…..
One of my cats will give you a dirty look if you don’t put the same amount of food in her bowl as her brother’s.
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Our 10 year old yellow lab will go into the pantry and chew all the plastc grocery bags to bits whenever it storms. I finally had to put a sign on the door so everyone in the family would remember to keep the door closed. She gets thunderstorm anxiety and our Vet finally gave her some doggie Xanax. She gets half a pill when it starts thundering and lightning and it really helps.
We also have a miniature dachshund who steals all the socks and underwear when I am sorting laundry. She will also stand in front of the clothes dryer and wait until I open the door so she can grab the dryer sheet and run off and tear it to shreds.
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This is not written by me but does explain my annoyances with cats–although I love them dearly.
DOG DIARY
8:00 am - Dog food! My favorite thing!
9:30 am - A car ride! My favorite thing!
9:40 am - A walk in the park! My favorite thing!
10:30 am - Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!
12:00 pm - Lunch! My favorite thing!
1:00 pm - Played in the yard! My favorite thing!
3:00 pm - Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!
5:00 pm - Milk bones! My favorite thing!
7:00 pm - Got to play ball! My favorite thing!
8:00 pm - Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favorite thing!
11:00 pm - Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!
CAT DIARY
Day 983 of my captivity.
My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects.
They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates and I are fed
hash or some sort of dry nuggets. Although I make my contempt for the
rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something in order to
keep up my strength. The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of
escape.
In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the carpet.
Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet.
I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly
demonstrates what I am capable of. However, they merely made
condescending comments about what a “good little hunter” I am.
Pathetic…
There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight.
I was placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event.
However, I could hear the noises and smell the food.
I overheard that my confinement was due to the power of “allergies.” I
must learn what this means, and how to use it to my advantage.
Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my
tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try this
again tomorrow — but at the top of the stairs.
I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches.
The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released - and
seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded.
The bird has got to be an informant. I observe him communicate with the
guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move. My captors
have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, so he is
safe.
For now…
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Bonedaddy…I am with you on that one. But what’s worse is when we are traveling in our RV and our Border Collie(still a pup mind you) uses our bed as a subsitute for the dining room! Made all the worse by the fact that most of the campgrounds we visit do not have laundrymats. It’s great spending half your week at the beach hosing off your sheets! Ah….but she is the sweetest thing ever so I forgive her every time!
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We also have a 5 year old black lab and she is just perfect! She was a disaster as a pup and the most expensive “free” dog we have ever had (chewed up my $150 central vacuum hose among many other things). So I know there is great hope for our Border Collie pup.
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Every morning our dog walks into our bedroom, very early, and shakes like she has just been in the lake and she is shaking off the water. This is annoying in itself, but to make it worse, her name tag and rabies tag “clang” together.
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My cat, Kasey, loves to dig her way to China each and every time she’s in the litter box. I have no clue why. And, she turns into an absolute angel when I take her to the vets, he can trim her nails in about a minute flat, and it takes me about three minutes to get her to settle down so I can trim her nails. It doesn’t hurt, so I don’t know why my cats (all three of them) hate to have their nails trimmed! And, my Sammy will sit by my front door, and howl, until I call him, and he then lays down at my feet and falls asleep. I think he likes to hear himself echo off the metal door! My eldest female Spots hates both of the other cats, and hisses at them each and every time she walks past them.
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We have a yorkie and she constantly licks herself on her hind thigh. We’ve used ointments and everything and she continues to do it. It drives us nuts!
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My cat will refuse to eat unless the bowl is set in the same place every day. We built a really nice enclosed back deck so we could keep her food and her safe instead of putting it on the front porch where stray dogs etc. could get at it and her. We moved the bowl to the back and she has her own little door to go back and forth which she does with ease but she still refuses to eat or drink from the bowls if there are out there. She began to lose weight so we had to give in and put them back on the front porch…where she will eat.
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A little advice to those of you who hate the tags clanging together…why not invest in those covers like they have for soldiers or see if they make them just for animals.
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…sorry to post again but also you could use those things they slide over key ends to identify them, found at any Walmart. They come in lots of different colors too and are smaller than the ones used by the soldiers.
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My dogs’ tags are on their collars, and the collars come off at night.
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My chihuaha has learned to do a high pitch whining cry in order to get what he wants..then will pout when he doenst get his way..its cute sometime..but can be annoying when watching tv
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Our pug is not a big licker but loves to lick my husband’s head. He is completely bald and I guess he thinks he is cleaning him or something. But the best is when he wants him to wake up and he sits on top of his pillow and just licks and licks until he gets up.
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Our dog, Domino, loves my lotion. I mean he is obsessed with it. He especially loves cocoa butter or shea butter. As soon as I get out of the shower, he is waiting for ‘lotion time’. He licks it off as i put it on. He also like to sleep in-between us give his Papa the ‘paws’.
Our cat, Miss Brown, howls like a banshee for food whenever you enter the kitchen. She could have just eaten but she always wants more. Good thing she is petite.
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My Yokie wakes up at 5:00 am every morning whining and pretending to have to pee. I let her out, she runs out turns right back around like she did something when she did not.Then comes in begging for a treat. She gets NO TREAT for that stunt! I am hip to her Game!
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My Female pit knock over her water
and bark so that you can put more water in her bowl. And if you don’t do it after she knock it over she will keep barking until you do.
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My yorkie follows me EVERY step I take.
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My cat (deceased) would drag all of our clothes downstairs to the kitchen floor when we were at work. This same cat would also start nursing and kneeding on our pillows in the middle of the night (as an adult!).
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My Cocker Spaniel likes to eat out of the litter box.
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My previous lab would run and jump into the bath tub if she felt like a storm was coming. The current one has selective hearing. When I call her she will come if she feels like it. Otherwise it’s just when she good and ready.
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My dogs’ tags are on their collars, and the collars come off at night.
To each his own, I guess. Though the collar sounds occasionally wake me, I never take my dogs’ collars off, unless they are in the tub, and then they go back on before the bathroom door opens back up.
I guess I’m just sensitive to knowing too many people who lost their dogs while the collar was off “just for a moment.” Even at night, I want my dogs identified. Dog forbid someone breaks in and leaves the door open, or there’s a fire or something.
Those of you who don’t like the tag silencers can get collars with engraved nameplates, instead.
My motto is “you just never know.”
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my sweet cat BUBBLE can not drink water unless theres ICE CUBES in it!
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Dogrealist - My yellow lab doesn’t wear a collar, unless we are out walking, she hates them and scratches at them constantly, so we just take it off when we are indoors or in the back yard. My puppy wears her collar constantly, as she MUST be on a leash everytime we go outside. I have a few holes in my fence and she runs right towards them. She does not come back when you call her.
My dogs are indoor dogs. The yellow lab is too old to run off and if she does, she comes right back. However, she very rarely leaves our yard.
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My girl kitty likes to get mommy’s attention by pricking the side of my legs with her nails, or snagging my pant legs.
Little boy kitty likes to throw his paper ball toys into his water fountain and clog the filter intake.
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Dash, my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel wants to use tissues. I have allergies and always seem to have a tissue to my face, so he thinks they must be some kinds of treat. He will sneak into the trash to get the dirty ones out. He loves it when I wipe his eyes and “pretend” to let him blow his nose with one of the forbidden tissues. Otherwise he is a pretty fabulous dog. Well behaved, smart and obedient. All things I attribute to both his breed and the training I gave him when he was very young.
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The Boxer: (1) loves put his full body against the bed, slide down forcing the comforter on the floor so he can lay on it. (2) has silent but deadly gas. (3)wakes me up anywhere between 5:30 & 6:00a to let him out. (4) will get on counter top to steal food. (5) will nudge my hand while working to pet him (6) super jealous of the German Shepard
The German Shepard: (1) silent but deadly gas. (2) will still food anywhere in nose reach.
When Daddy comes home from work, they perform the “happy chase me” dance which involves chasing one another in a circle on my hard wood floor for about 15 minutes.
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My puppy slides her butt across the floor
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Our cat likes to drool whenever we pet him or hold him. It is very nasty
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Our cat orange tabby cat Monty runs and hides almost as soon as he hears thunder outside, even though he’s an indoor kitty. He also is content to stay cramped under a bed to muffle the annoying chirps of a smoke alarm. This is one scaredy cat!
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The whole collar/tag/jingling thing doesn’t bother me. I guess I’m just used to the sound with 2 dogs. I prefer to be able to hear them and know where they are, so when I call their names I can hear them jingling. My 10 year old lab actually doesn’t like to have her collar removed. When we do take it off for baths, she tries to get it and carry it around until we put it back on her. I agree with Dogrealist….you just never know…
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This is for Erin. Have you tried soy free dog food? Our previous lab was alergic to soy products. You may want to look into a soy free dog food. Not sure if it will work for your dog but it’s worth a try. Have yo tried Benadril(sp)?
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My chow/lab mix Lilly, has diarrhea constantly. She goes for about 2 weeks and is fine and then all of a sudden she eats an acorn and it is diarrhea city for 2 days straight. Any suggestions besides prescription dog food at $50 a bag??
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Kelly,
Our lab was always a puker. She would eat wood chips or something out in the yard and then throw up. This would occur 1-2 times per week. Friends who also have labs recommended giving her a heaping tablespoon of whole milk yogurt on top of her dry food each mealtime. It has to be whole milk, not low-fat or fat-free. We started doing this several years ago and she rarely throws up anymore. I’m not sure if this will work for the diarrhea, but it’s worth a try. Good luck!
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my cat will crawl up in my face at night and have me get up to stir his food in his bowl. The food is dry but he just wants me to either give him different food or wants me to get up with him. Sometimes this is 3 or 4 times.
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My cat Baby loves to snack her paws in the water bowl and the water goes all over the rug and the kitchen floor. I hate cleaning up the wet mess! Baby races me to the bathroom to get a drink from the vanity sink. She knows where I am going and is trying to open the bathroom door!
Tuffy, our male cat loves to kill toliet paper, and papertowels. My bathroom looks like it snowed in there. I have to hide the roll of toilet paper from him!
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My dog, a 3 1/2 year old St. Bernard mix, loves to take a mouthful of his dry dog food from his dish, walk a few feet and drop it on the floor. He proceeds to eat most of it, but typically leaves a few pieces there. I’ve tried to stop him in the act, but when I called his name to get his attention, he stopped, dropped the mouthful where he was and then walked away. It’s clear who’s in control here.
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our neighborhood has a gaggle of geese that live there and our dogs Sergeant (german shepard/catahula leopard hound) and Pepper (plott hound/great dane) absolutely love eating there poop. i know it tastes like goose but come on guys it’s still poop. makes for fun walks and even more fun teeth brushing!!!
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Everytime I take my dog to boarding or doggie day care she comes home smelling like urine. Larter dogs always like to unrine on her.
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I have a 100 lb. German Shepard and a 10 lb. Min Pin that think they need to bark at evey noise they hear and see. I’m soooo over it!!
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My cat aparently has a fear of closed doors. He insist that every door in the house be open at all times. This gets really annoying when my roommate is up late and I want me bedroom door closed so as to not hear the TV. The cat will start meowing and scratching at the door but when you open it he does not want in, he just want the option to come in when he feels like it. Very annoying.
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Let’s see..other than eat from the cat box and cat food, she likes to play police dog and BARKS at every person or dog that walks by her yard.
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Dog - bichon/poodle mix?
1. HAS to have COLD BOTTLED WATER
2. Licks/scratches all the time (even on his grain-free diet, with oil, omega3 pill, etc…)
3. Digs on the comforter (I guess trying to get to the olympics!)
4. Sits on the back part of loveseat (like a cat) and stares out the window. Had to replace several blinds because he would stick his face in it just to look outside. Now I just have it pulled up enough for him to look outside
5. Barks when our neighbor comes home at 11pm (hasn’t he gotten used to it yet?)
6. Wakes me up at 5am now to go out - yes even on the weekends.
7. He will jump up on me and sit on my chest (he’s 20lbs) in the morning if I don’t get up to let him out.
I could go on and on. He is so cute and smart though! With all of these annoying habits, you gotta love him! Wouldn’t trade him for the world.
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For the fence climbers. Try to run a electric fence around the top. It stop my Jack/mix. Annabelle doesn’t eve think about climbing over now.
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Upon thinking on it, I’m realizing Bob Dog has a few other quirks besides my previous post. First is the Dreaded It’s Storming Someplace In Georgia, Maybe routine. Loooonnnngggg before a thunderstorm actually arrives, Bob gets a mental phone call from the storm gods instructing him to walk in tight circles aroundandaroundandaroundandaround the bed. When that doesn’t rouse us, he gets on his belly like a stormtrooper (no pun intended), and drags himself very dramatically up the bed, making little we’re-all-gonna-die snuffling noises. Once he’s at the top of the bed, he very carefully positions himself so he’s literally sitting on my husband’s head, sort of like a horizontal turban, hugging my husband’s chin with his front and rear paws. If THAT doesn’t work (it usually does) he moans pathetically, letting it rise into a heartbreaking howl. Mind you, this is long before the thunder and lightning actually arrive; in fact, many nights he goes through this and rain never does come despite his best ‘rain dance’ efforts.
His other ‘trick’: he’s such a good boy that I’m secretly pleased when he misbehaves, except for the time I left a plastic baggie filled with chocolate flavored nutritional powder on the couch, forgetting that Bob is very fond of eating plastic bags. Got home to discover he’d apparently ripped open a little bitty corner of the bag and carried it from room to room, leaving little heaps of chocolate powder on the newly cleaned (and damp)white carpets wherever he went; you could clearly see his route by the narrow ribbon of powder winding from room to room. His journey ended in the bedroom, on the bed which was wearing a brand-new white goosedown comforter AND a neat little pile of chocolate-flavored doggie puke studded with bits of plastic bag. Bad, bad Bob Dog!
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Cindy Acevodo….are you a writer? If not, you should be. Your Bob-dog stories are hilarious! I can sympathize about the thunderstorm anxiety. First, if it’s in the middle of the night, which it was Sunday night and my husband had to get up at 4am for a 7am flight, Sugar starts by jumping up with her front paws on the edge of my husband’s side of the bed, inches from his face, breathing loudly and whining. If that doesn’t work, then she starts pacing, panting, whining louder, drooling, shaking and ultimately jumping up on the bed between us. Even then she won’t relax and lie down. She will pace the bed until we either hold her down, which only works if the bad weather passes, or we now have doggie Xanax and one of us (me) has to take her downstairs to the kitchen to take half a Xanax with a small spoonful of peanut butter. Depending on how bad the storm is, she will usually then settle down and go back to sleep. Sugar is a 65lb lab who sheds something awful. The next morning I have to change the sheets because they are full of dog hair.
We also have a 10lb dachshund who isn’t bothered in the least by thunderstorms and sleeps through the whole incident.
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Sugar’s Momma-Next time, skip the peanut butter and split the doggie xanax between your hubby & you! It’s really funny how these descendants-of-wolves, these noble protectors, these creatures that will happily roll in 3 month old deer carcasses are so scared of a little rain…and maybe a really loud clap of thunder..
And YES I’m a writer–and YES I’m working on a book about the things I’ve learned from Bob–working title is: Bob Spelled Backward Is Still Bob:Lessons I’ve Learned at The Paws of a Master. Or something like that. Or maybe not.
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Noir, my Poodle has this annoying habit when one of us leave the house, he began to eat little bits of his food, and start barking, running all over the house.
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Noir, my Poodle has this annoying habit when one of us leave the house, he begins to eat little bits of his food, and start barking, running all over the house.
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Noir, my Poodle has this annoying habit when one of us leave the house, he begins to eat little bits of his food, and starts barking, running all over the house.
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Noir, my Poodle has this annoying habit when one of us leave the house, he begins to eat little bits of his food, and starts barking, running all over the house..
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When he doesn’t get attenchen he will lick my hand, put his paw on my lap, and will put my hand in his mouth and lightly pull me (it doesn’t hurt and he would never bite. It’s the most annoying thing alive!
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