Strange things your pets do...

   / Strange things your pets do... #401  
I brought home a GS from a place I worked. They were going to have her put down because she barked too much and woke the livestock.
She immediately bonded with me. I belonged to her not vice versa. She was very possessive.
Lady was getting fairly old when I started to date my ex. When we used to go for a walk around the farm Lady would stick her nose between our hands to separate us and do her best to keep us apart.
I should have paid her more attention.
A terror/terrier *****, Sandy, would scratch her own back.
In the kitchen we had an extra chair next to the sideboard. The bottom wood was pretty ornate and her back just rubbed up against it when she walked under. She figured out that if she arched her back a little she got a nice scratching from it. Sometimes she'd get carried away and you didn't know which room the chair would end up in by the morning. I ended up tying a chair leg to the sideboard to keep it in place.
Ma had a Siamese that liked to sleep on the back of the sofa in the living room. Numerous times after a good nap Puppy (long story) would get up and stretch cat like and suddenly take off.
Off the end of the couch onto the carpet, into the dining room, slide sideways from the dining room hardwood floor into the kitchen, hard sliding right turn on the linoleum through the kitchen and down the hallway to the basement stairs. Just before she'd get to the stairs she'd lock up all 4s.
Too late.
I always imagined it being like the Looney Tunes Coyote when he realizes he's aboot to fall down into the canyon, She'd fly off the end of the hallway and into the abyss. You would hear her land somewhere down the stairs.
A little later she'd come back like nothing had happened.
What made her do it nobody knows.
Nobody chased or spooked her. Human she would ignore. Dog would get a face full of needle sharp claws.
She just went for a little thrill ride.
 
   / Strange things your pets do... #402  
I'll repeat a story about our German Shepherd from 2015. He was only about 6 months old at the time. We were sitting in the house in the evening when we thought someone was outside with a flashlight. We saw it moving passed our front window and around to the end of the house. Upon further investigation, we discovered that it was our Shepherd running around with a solar light in his mouth.
This one dezerves more than a FB thumbsup. 😆😃😄🙃😎
 
   / Strange things your pets do... #403  
I'm sure many of you will find this story hard to believe but I assure you it's 100% true and actually happened to me.

It was the early 1990s and I was living in a small house with a live-in girlfriend in town. We purchased an Amazon parrot together named Freeway.

One day while I was at work, I received a phone call from the city police department. It was the dispatcher and she tells me there is a squad car at my house and wants to know if anyone is home.

It seems one of my girlfriends housekeeping clients had called my house trying to reach her and "someone" had "picked up" the phone and was screaming, so she called the police.

We had just purchased a voice activated answering machine and the damned parrot answered the phone. My girlfriend wasn't home and the client knew where I worked so they called me! I did my best to explain what was going and the dispatcher explained to the patrol man that it had something to do with an answering machine and parrot lmao.

Needless to say, we turned off the voice answering feature immediately.

I submitted the story to readers digest but I doubt they believed it.
 
   / Strange things your pets do... #404  
Here's one I am trying to figure out... Our Chihuahua/Beagle mix in the mornings, AFTER we wake up and are laying there for just a bit longer, most but not everyday, will try to climb up on my chest to sit and stick her nose in my face. If I do not push her off she sits down on me, smells and sneezes in my face until I get up. Sometimes when I stop her she purposely goes to the end of the bed and attempts to walks up my body trying to get up to my chest. Also does it with my wife but not nearly as often, usually it's just me.

Otherwise a good dog and follows commands, most of the time until, "squirrel".
 
   / Strange things your pets do... #405  
We had a russian grey cat that was pretty smart and acted like a dog.
Would play fetch etc.
Acted like a cat thought when trying to give pills, needed body armor for that.

He would follow my kid around when he was a baby and play with his toys, opening and closing the doors and generally doing what my son was doing.
He would open compartments, take out what the kid put in and then close the compartment.
 
   / Strange things your pets do... #406  
Here's one I am trying to figure out... Our Chihuahua/Beagle mix in the mornings, AFTER we wake up and are laying there for just a bit longer, most but not everyday, will try to climb up on my chest to sit and stick her nose in my face. If I do not push her off she sits down on me, smells and sneezes in my face until I get up. Sometimes when I stop her she purposely goes to the end of the bed and attempts to walks up my body trying to get up to my chest. Also does it with my wife but not nearly as often, usually it's just me.

Otherwise a good dog and follows commands, most of the time until, "squirrel".
Need a piccy of this dog.
 
   / Strange things your pets do... #407  
Need a piccy of this dog.
Wife had DNA testing done on her, as she does every dog since it became available. It has been interesting seeing what the blend is and how the different dogs turned out/looked. Some you can see breed traits and others not so much.
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   / Strange things your pets do... #408  
   / Strange things your pets do... #409  
Wife had DNA testing done on her, as she does every dog since it became available. It has been interesting seeing what the blend is and how the different dogs turned out/looked. Some you can see breed traits and others not so much. View attachment 3775970
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Looks like my Lilly did. She was Chihuahua and Manchester Terrier mix.
I miss my little Piglet (her nickname).
 

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