Strange/Funny animal behaviour...

[ChEEbA]

Just thought I'd write this after witnessing something one of my cats (phantom) does...I have a broom...like, one of the ones made out of natural wood-like material for bristles...and yeah, my cat eats it, sits there licking it, and occasionally rips peices off.
He also eats flowers, and the dead leaves that fall off my chilli plant.
Also, the same cat seems to enjoy going up onto high places, simply to KINDA ambush you - you see him, he sees you, he cries, and jumps down.
Oh, and he likes to eat very spicy things.

My female rats do this thing where they have stand-offs, if you've ever seen this, it's really funny...they do this when they're moved into a new cage, every time, I guess they're having power disputes - but they do this, and then start grooming eachother, then have another stare-out, then groom eachother....and so on and so forth.
That reminds me, my small female rat, wil groom ANYTHING, including the guineapig, which is such a stupid freak that it just starts squeeling in panic...but yeah, it's funny, the little one ALWAYS does the grooming, even with way biggest rats. She's a clean freak I guess - she's been known to give manicures with her teeth, and attempt to clean ears and hair before too.

The ferrets I own...well, they're just constantly doing crazy shit, waaaay to much to go into, but they're always entertaining.

My OTHER cat, Dusk, uses the litter...and for some reason, when he does...he scratches it around for like a half an hour afterwards.
and not just the litter, but the floor, and door of the enclosure it's in too. PSYCHO!
That, and, he usually sits in front of a column heater, he leans right up against it too, so much so that if you pick him up, he's unpleasantly hot...- he's grown so used to this that he even sits in front of it with a stupid look on his face, when it's OFF.

I used to have a great dog, Ned (R.I.P) a three legged cattledog/german shepherd, first of all, he could still run WAY faster than me...Also, he'd dissapear from my yard on a daily basis when I was at early primary school (he knew the area super-well) and would return every afternoon. One time my mother decided to follow up on this, and had a look around.
He was visiting a local factory, at lunchtime, every day. All the workers new him SO well...said they felt sorry for him, and fed him every day - Way to milk the sympathy, Ned.., anyways, this was harmless enough, so we let it continue - he always WAS a rather chubby dog.
Also, he'd sleep by my bed, and do that thing dogs do...yknow? My hand would be at the side of the bed, and he'd sit there, nudging it onto his head...it was funny, and cool...but goddamn sometimes I just wanted to sleep.

My dog Loki - as well as biting things like chainsaws (recently), lawnmowers and other noisy/mechanical things, he also attacks inanimate objects, such as swings in the park - if I let him go, he will literally spend hours grabbing a swing and trying to rip it down, put it this way - you DON'T want to be on a swing with him around. He also attacks trolley wheels - he even flipped one over once.
He also has this thing, when he's in the car with us, at stop lights, if there happens to be a bus, or a motorcycle - he wants a fight, you should see him, it's fucking hilarious.
He's a great dog though, the kindest nature you could ever know.

So, that's all I can really think of for now...I'll let y'all know if anything else comes to mind.
So, I'm assuming I'm not the only one in here that has witnessed some strange and funny animal habits - so, if you've got time, let us all know about some of the crazy shit you've seen in your time.

- B.

[ItsAlive75]

My dog Bailey used to jump up to look out the window, and every time he did he'd let out the biggest fart...

I bet that's what killed him.

[ChEEbA]

So, what...like, the fart launched him out the window?

Here's another one - My ferrets chase my cats. They're very fearless...it's always the funniest thing when you see the cats look at them like they're completely insane, and move away...sometimes phantom gets pissed off and tries to slap them, but they only seem to enjoy it.
The cats usually end up going someplace high.


SO, c'mon people - give me more.

- B.

[friday13thfan]

my dog Spike sleeps on top of my head/face every nite so i usually awake with my dogs ass on my mouth

[ShankS]

one of my cats drinks water from the raised birdbath... she stands on her back legs with front paws on the edge lapping away... the water must taste of bird essence lol

[ChEEbA]

the water must taste of bird essence lol
Yummy...
Yeah, my cat stands up on his hind legs a lot, usually to reach for something edible though.

so i usually awake with my dogs ass on my mouth
Yknow...you COULD probably shove the dog down the end of the bed...?



I know there's more people with animals here, so...lets hear it!

[urgeok]

i have a cat thats always done this one thing .. she stretches - a lot - and every time she does, she sticks one back leg straight out like a ballerina ...

i sort of forgot about it but when friends come over they always get a laugh out of it ..

[friday13thfan]

Originally posted by ChEEbA

Yknow...you COULD probably shove the dog down the end of the bed...?
know there's more people with animals here, so...lets hear it!


he is a yorkshire and i do but he comes up when im dead asleep.. plus like ewveryone should knoew yorkies are just little things. yet no matter what the size of the other dog he will chase it.. he picked a fight with a saint benard once kept nipping at the big guys feet yet he just ignore my dog lol. my dog is going to get him self killed someday

[Marroe]

Oh where to start...I'm petless nowadays, but I had some fun critters back in the day. I had a Vientnamese pot bellied pig named Lucy, who was a persistant ass jumper. I used to sleep on the living room couch and every single night she would jump right on my ass...and yes, it hurt my lil bum. I would throw her off, and she would jump right back on me every single time...we'd go back and forth forever before I would finally get her to come up and lay AWAY from my ass. She also hadda thing for ripping up tile, my mom sent her away because she ripped up the almost the entire dining room floor.
I used to fight with my cat, Sistinas. She liked to lay on my chest and watch my face...I'd breathe in and out a certain way just to piss her off, stupid of me tho because she'd attack my face everytime I did....but it was still funny that it made her so mad. I also used to cup my hand around her head, not touching her, to get her going...she would jump and wrap herself around my arm and try and chew the palm of my hand but her nose would be in the way, haha, that was great.
I had this parakeet who I loved, but he was so fucking stupid. He hated being in his cage, he'd try to open the door with his mouth and get out, but he'd get halfway out and get stuck...he did this like everyday.

[ChEEbA]

*BUMP*

[novakru]

Out of the many weird things Wolfgang my cat does,this makes me laugh harder than them all.
I throw him olives(any type) and he bats it all over the place like a live animal for half an hour,then finally scrunches down and eats it with this look on his face like"See mommy? I killed that olive good."

[ChEEbA]

My cat Phantom does something similar...there's a wirescreen door on my front balcony, and it's usually host to an assortment of insects on the outside.
He'll sit there watching them, and for some reason he'll sit, standing up (if that makes any sense at all) watching them, in a prairie dog kinda pose. If a stray moth happens to get inside, he'll follow it around, and start crying if it goes to the roof.

Another one...have you guys ever heard rat purring? I think the actual term for it is "fluxing", but there's two things they do when they're happy and content, they grind their teeth, then they kind of...intake air...? when they do that they sound kinda like mini Hannibals.

[Spallalala]

I remember giving a chilli to our male rat " Shoogy.Snr " , he bit it and must have realised it was hot, cause he started rolling the chilli around ( I guess he was trying to cool it down ). He rolled it around for sometime before giving up haha..

[kpropain]

My dog can lick his own nuts, lucky bastard.

[Dante'sInferno]

My cat steals money and hides it (Im Fucking Serious)He also jumps on walls and does like some uh....matrix shit were he twists in the air and shit and he can do a back flip on the ground..:)

[Spallalala]

Thats funny shit. At a friends place , my mates small cat did that. We had it in a corner, ( i can't remember what we were trying to do with it ) the cat was near me, and decided to pull matrix mode on us. Scared the hell out of me, but since I was drunk it was pretty fucking funny.

[Dante'sInferno]

Originally posted by Spallalala
Thats funny shit. At a friends place , my mates small cat did that. We had it in a corner, ( i can't remember what we were trying to do with it ) the cat was near me, and decided to pull matrix mode on us. Scared the hell out of me, but since I was drunk it was pretty fucking funny. Hehe.......never trust cats..Because!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!








































THEY ARE FUCKING CRAZY LITTLE BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!:D :D

[Spallalala]

Well, at least I know now, never to corner a cat haha. This cat was a crazy ass lil shit.

Wish Phantom or dusk would run around the walls at times tho . They would rather sit on there asses meowing at nothing.

[ChEEbA]

This just happened...
My male rat, who is the youngest of the "big" rats, is still rather small, gets out of cages...etc, so since I didn't want him running around the room unsupervised, I threw him into the guinea-pigs cage, located on my balcony, to live until he grows a little bigger.
So, turns out he can get out of THAT cage too. But whatever, he's on my balcony so he's not going anywhere, right? But he went missing...and we just found him.
He'd actually made a tunnel system underneath a lavender plant we have growing out there in a large pot. The rat was living in the plant.
Weird.

[Terrin_the_Vamp]

My dog will not sit like a dog at all. She always sits like a human right on her bum with her legs stretched out in front of her. I guess since she's never been around other dogs, she just never learned how to sit. As for my kitties (i have 3), there's not a sane thing they do anymore except sleep. If they are awake we have to keep our eyes open cause we'll be witnessing something funny soon.

[Marroe]

Originally posted by ChEEbA
This just happened...
My male rat, who is the youngest of the "big" rats, is still rather small, gets out of cages...etc, so since I didn't want him running around the room unsupervised, I threw him into the guinea-pigs cage, located on my balcony, to live until he grows a little bigger.
So, turns out he can get out of THAT cage too. But whatever, he's on my balcony so he's not going anywhere, right? But he went missing...and we just found him.
He'd actually made a tunnel system underneath a lavender plant we have growing out there in a large pot. The rat was living in the plant.
Weird. That reminds me of a story one of the DTR guys (kinda like a machanic for photo machines) told me at work. He got a call out to one of the stores in our district because the film processor wasn't mixing chemistry. When he opened the machine up to check the sensors he found that a big ol' rat had made a nest inside of the machine on top of the nozzles. It drug paper, and all sorts of random things inside of the machine to make it...I'm surprised it was alive when he found it.

[novakru]

Wolfgang was our first baby,he was 5 weeks old when my husband brought him home for me as a surprise present(still the best present I ever got to this day)
The next year we had our first daughter and even though we did everything the vet told us to do to acclimate him,he spent 2 months under the bed,I had to push food and water at him.
After that ,he avoided me for about 6 months,but I would find him from time to time in the baby's crib smelling around.
Everytime baby cried,he would start yowling.
The next year,we had another daughter-and it appeared that Wolfie had chosen to become a 'lookafter' for my hairless kittens-lol.
He follows them all around the neighborhood now,keeping an eye on them.It's very strange and very cute.
He stills yowls when the girls cry and he always goes up to them and wraps his tail around them,it's too adorable.
Another thing I find amazing is that when the girls were toddlers-they would sit and lay on him, pull his tail and ears-and he would just sit there.
If they got too rough,he would smack them with noclaws or nip at them and I know-this cat has the ability to tear you apart.

[Tara]

We had a cat who you could dress up in clothes, and she'd just hang out in them, just wear them around as if it were the most natual thing in the world and never fight to take them off. Even little hats! She also went hiking with us, like a dog would.

[Marroe]

Soraya is insane! Ever since I walked in the door today, she's been running back at forth, sliding on the hard wood floors, and literally smacking herself into the walls. Every once in a while she'll lunge on my arm like she's hugging it, and then jump up in the air and back into the wall. She jumps up on the back of my sofa and smacks at my picture frames...it seems like she does this just to see what I'll do because she smacks em, then turns to look at me, then does it again. She does the same thing with the 4 foot long, 3 foot wide HUGE dream catcher above my bed, I'm just gonna let that one fall on her head sometime. It's light it won't hurt her, but it'd be damn funny. I also think she has an imaginary friend.

[Elvis_Christ]

"I see dead people..... MEOWWWW!"

[Marroe]

I've been watching Soraya roll around the floor trying to kill a Q-tip she found for about 15 minutes now. Quite entertaining.

[Lorre]

My cat, Sneeze, is hilarious. She loves to play with 20oz bottle caps. If you throw one she will fetch it and bring it back to you. She wakes me up every morning by crying outside my bedroom door. I used to feel bad and let her in but that stopped quickly. All she wants to do is knock stuff over! She is trying to get me to get up and play with her. She will sometimes try and push a damn cap under my door at 6:00 in the morning. We buy her all sorts of toys but she will only play with the really ugly ones. Like these catnip toys I bought her. Most of them are like cute mice but one of them... I don't even know what the hell it is supposed to be! She ignores all of them but the ugly one!

As for her eating habits... She is a little shithead! If I am eating chips she will have the audacity to run up and steal my chip and eat it right in front of me. She LOVES potato chips. She also eats french fries, bananas, red peppers, and chedder peppers (Sonic kicks ass!).

Sneeze also loves to hit me. If I am sitting down in the living room she will walk up to me, jump on me, look me in the face, and then she will hit me and casually walk away.

I love my cat but she is weird.

[ItsAlive75]

Our neighbors down the hall have a dog that can't bark right. It's like that video of the boxer pup that just kinda makes this weird yowling.

Its really scary, three-thirty in the morning and I get woken up by what sounds like a person with no tongue screaming.

[Haunted]

I finally have something to add...:D

I know I've been bitching about my dad lately, but we've finally found solidarity. Tonight me, my mum, my dad, and my paternal grandmother were hanging out watching Wheel of Fortune (hey, you cater to your grandmother).

At about half way through the show our schnauzer, Griffin trots into the living room with something in his mouth. My dad looks at my mum and I and mouth's, "He's got mother's teeth!" So here we are chasing this dog through the dining, living, and foyer, withc my grandmother's teeth hanging out his mouth. My dad and I were useless in catching in him, because we looked at each other and burst out laughing.

So, Griffin, with my grandmother's teeth in toe, goes under the table wear he is caught and the teeth taken from him. My dad scoured them in hot water and tooth paste.

It was one of the funniest things I've experienced in a long time. Maybe I'm just hard up for entertainment.

[novakru]

Wolfgang wakes me up every morning by sitting on my chest and purring loudly.
We then go downstairs where he circles and trips me several times as I prepare his food.
Even after feeding him 2x a day for almost 9 years now,he still acts happy and AMAZED that I give him FOOD.
I guess that explains the overkill on all the dead animals at the door outside.

I'm taking him to the vet shortly,he has been limping for a week now.I hope he hasn't tangled with any more snakes.:rolleyes:

[stubbornforgey]

my cat..(well..hes not really mine ..he kinda came with the house ..bastard wont go away)

At nights he sits by the glass front door,,and if we ignore him he stands on back hind paws ..n scratches the shit out of the door with his front paws...if we still ignore him..he will then jump to try n reach the door handle.We ignore him for our own amusement..
He is also a great watchcat..!!he attacks any stray dogs that wander onto our property...he just sits back ..pretending to be busy or what ever ..n when the intruder happily strolls past..this fucking cat jumps up and takes swipes at the poor beast.
The phone rings he will jump on top of it n paw knock the earpiece off the hook..Who ever the original owner was..they trained him well...very obedient cat.

[gorefreak]

When I was a kid, I had a german shepard/malamute named Sugar when cause her fur was quite white with some black markings. Nothing too odd about her, although she literally hated UPS trucks. Just looking at em did nothing, but when one fired up, she'd growl and wanna run after it. :D That, and uniformed people like UPS, mail delievery, meter readers.... she always sensed that somehow they were stangers. Not that she'd bite em, but she'd growl at em something fierce. :)

My dalmation Brandy, however.... that's a different story. ;) That dog would almost behave like a bratty little girl. :D And smart, too. Even at 5 weeks old, I slowly started to close the porch door, and she stared up and down, and three seconds later, she batted the door back open. She also got into things like eating a hibiscus plant (surprised it didn't kill her :) ), chewing on door frames, eating those fuzzy things that float around in the summertime. And ripping the newspaper to shreds! :mad: One day, I caught her doing it so I snuck up on her and rapped her good with a magazine. It scared her so much she never ripped another one. :D And she almost got into a plate of chocolates. 3 times I told her "no" so the 4th time she snuck around through the dining room, into the living room behind the chair. Eyeing me, watching TV, then the candy. Eyeing me, then the candy, eyeing me, then the candy, inching closer all the time, which I caught out of the corner of my eye so I yelled at her and she ran. She knows better, but still tries to get away with stuff like that. When my dad came over and heard a "plop", he was like "what the hell was that?" and went to the kitchen to investigate. Brandy bolted like greased lighting, and a whole chicken, still in the bag, which was left on the counter, was in the middle of the floor. She also likes sleeping on the furniture, although she knows she's not supposed to. Every time she heard someone, she'd hop off like she was never on it, but you could see the guilt in her eyes and the fur where she slept. She even got into a pizza. An 18 inch large that me and my dad ate which didn't settle well with either of us. We left the porch for less than 2 minutes, and inside that time, that dog literally diminished over 2/3rds of an 18 inch large with extra cheese, saugage and peperoni! :eek: She can eat food faster than most dogs 2 to 3 times her size. lol I'm kinda surprised that she's still alive. :)

[novakru]

Originally posted by novakru


I'm taking him to the vet shortly,he has been limping for a week now.I hope he hasn't tangled with any more snakes.:rolleyes:

He has soft tissue damage.So he needs to rest to recoup.
All I can do is keep the kids from hassling him and make him stay inside till his anti-inflammatory medicine is done.(He is going to be hatin life-no killing? no fighting? no cattin? )
The weight loss bothered the vet as much as it did me,but said the weight loss might just be because he(wolfie) doesn't feel good.
He(the vet) also said it would be a good idea to start buying him SENIOR cat food. He'll only be 9 in March!!
My goodness,I can't believe that,that really freaks me out,my cat is OLD,I don't know how to handle that.

[Marroe]

what is that, 63 in kitty years? Yep..thassa senior. Good thing is most cats live to be about 140. Hey, we all get old at some point :) chin up chicky.

[gorefreak]

My dog's not doing so well. She's already what? 13 and a half which is like almost 95? Her hearing isn't so great and she's getting hip dysplasia pretty bad in her right leg.

[novakru]

Originally posted by Marroe
what is that, 63 in kitty years? Yep..thassa senior. Good thing is most cats live to be about 140. Hey, we all get old at some point :) chin up chicky.

It's just a little shocking to realize my lil domestic tiger is going to gradually get old and leave me one day.
He acts like such a kitten and I get so much enjoyment with him,he's a great companion during my days alone (waiting for my own kittens to come home-lol)...he's my lil furry buddy:D
But that's good info Marroe-140? I have heard some cats live to 22 years or more:)
BTW-Your new cat looks so much like wolfie it's spooky.
I've got a story about his nemesis....the golden retreiver that occasionally breaks out of his yard.
This battle goes far,far beyond cat/dog hatred.
They actually act like they plot ways to annoy each other.
I'll tell it another time though..



I'm so sorry gorefreak,I can empathize with you and wish your doggie the best.

[filmmaker2]

I have these two cat friends and they live in the alleyway, I call them my litta furballs, and they come bother me at night when they get hungry. I say, "Do you want your rat food?" because cat food and rat food look about the same.

Cold and rainy this morning! They are shivering their litta booties off I bet.

Time for coffee!