Strange things your pets do...

[Oaktree]

You should leave the lid up so it could get a quick drink of water

My wife has a couple plants that aren't in soil, but just water with some marbles for support. This cat loves to drink out of them.
Had another cat that would try and drink out of a glass of water that had been left on a table, generally knocking it over in the process. We learned not to leave them around.

 

[gsganzer]

I have a black mouth cur that's incredibly attached to me. If anyone has had a BMC, you'll probably agree that they relate to their family completely different than any other dog.

Anyway, I travel frequently and my kids say he's completely lost when I'm away and he'll sulk for a day or two, sometimes sleeping in my closet or on something of mine that was left on the floor. When I return home from traveling, his whole world brightens back up.

When I came home from one of my trips, I put my opened luggage on the floor in my bedroom. When I walked in later, he had pulled a bunch of the clothes out and was sleeping in my luggage. I guess he was telling me to take him on the next trip.

 

[MossRoad]

We have two cats. One likes to stick her head in the stream of water while I'm brushing my teeth and slobber the water that runs down her face. The other is fascinated when the water gets turned off, and attacks the drain as the water leaves the sink.

 

[Dftodd]

I have a black mouth cur that's incredibly attached to me. If anyone has had a BMC, you'll probably agree that they relate to their family completely different than any other dog.

Anyway, I travel frequently and my kids say he's completely lost when I'm away and he'll sulk for a day or two, sometimes sleeping in my closet or on something of mine that was left on the floor. When I return home from traveling, his whole world brightens back up.

When I came home from one of my trips, I put my opened luggage on the floor in my bedroom. When I walked in later, he had pulled a bunch of the clothes out and was sleeping in my luggage. I guess he was telling me to take him on the next trip.
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Our shepherd is the same way when I travel. She will mope and wait in the foyer.

My wife used to have to walk through the house with our late miniature dachshund and open every door and let him inspect before he would settle down when I was away. She would have to repeat it every night till I got home.

 

[BravoXray]

^^^ Yikes! Never knew of anyone that had a pet raccoon. :shocked:

A girl I went to school with had one back in the mid 60's.

 

[lman]

When I was a kid we wound up with some baby foxes and we gave one to somebody that lived in the city. They had it in their house like a dog. They said that they could never housetrain the fox.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Someone a while ago posted a photo of a dog way up in a tree. That's hard to beat!

 

[John Skull]

Colonel likes to sit on his back sometimes (see pic) and when he wants inside he will often perch on a chair (see pic) so he can see if someone is coming to the door. :laughing: He regularly kills mice, voles, squirrels and birds (and one rabbit), then always brings them up to the deck as a gift to us. :irked: He just showed up one night a couple years ago and he decided to stay.

 

[Jstpssng]

It's funny how a thread will lanquish forgotten, then rejuvenate. Colonel is one big a** cat. Are you sure that his mother didn't mate with a mountain lion?

 

[Dftodd]

It's funny how a thread will lanquish forgotten, then rejuvenate. Colonel is one big a** cat. Are you sure that his mother didn't mate with a mountain lion?

We had a bobtail kitten show up in our basement one winter. We never did figure out how it got in.

We didn't think much of it till it hit about 25lbs of solid muscle Vet deduced that daddy was probably a bobcat from the markings.

 

[Jim Nelson]

Back in the 70's I had a pet coon that was given to me by a rancher friend who caught him as a baby. As he grew he would go out in the barn where they kept their orphaned, or "doggie" calves and play with them until one time he killed one by chasing it around too much.
I had horses and chickens at that time and the chickens would nest in the hay barn. Coonie would go out with me to feed the horses and play with the eggs but never broke one unless I handed it to him, then it was gone in a flash.

One day he found a small hog nosed snake that had just eaten a baby frog, he caught the snake and squeezed the frog out of it and ate it then ate the snake. Pretty gross.

One day he just disappeared and I don't know if the hormones just kicked in and he went girling or someone picked him up ,or shot him or what.

He was a lot of fun and incredibly smart.

 

[BravoXray]

It's funny how a thread will lanquish forgotten, then rejuvenate. Colonel is one big a** cat. Are you sure that his mother didn't mate with a mountain lion?

One of the three black cats I have had over the years, I inherited from my son when he moved to a apartment that didn't allow pets. Nikki was pretty big, a year before he got a tumor and had to be put down, he weighed a tad over 17 pounds and he wasn't fat. He was always bring leftover parts of gophers, mice, voles, rabbits and various birds up to the porch door to share with me.

 

[John Skull]

It's funny how a thread will lanquish forgotten, then rejuvenate. Colonel is one big a** cat. Are you sure that his mother didn't mate with a mountain lion?

Haha, yep he's a big one, over 20 lbs. and extremely quick and agile. He has survived here in the woods with lots of screaming coyotes out there. We're not sure of his ancestry but he has some human characteristics and carries himself like a panther.:mischievous:

 

[cqaigy2]

Speaking of cats. We had one, tuxedo markings, not particularly large, Abigail. She killed many rabbits. We had a number of trusses stacked against an out building, with plywood decking stack against the trusses. Come summer we were putting up the shop, pull the plywood away and in the cavity the trusses made was a pile of skeletons, cat, possum, many mice.

When we were building our house, we stayed in my parents 5th wheel. At night, Abigail used to climb up the ladder on the back of the camper and meow at the vent, right overhead the bed, so i'd open it up and she'd jump down to the bed. I thought it was great, not having to get up in the middle of the night, to let the cat in. So of course, one night, Abigail's meowing at the overhead vent, i open it up, and she drops a dead bloody rabbit through the vent, onto the bed. My wife and i weren't too happy about that.

 

[Jstpssng]

Ruger will lay next to the stove soaking up the heat, often until he's panting heavily. I'm not sure whether it's just the warmth or if he's guarding it to ensure I don't leave without him. (He also will sit outside by the truck until I come out, on days that I tell him he's staying home.)
A couple of Christmases ago a winter storm brought cold weather and significant snow. It stopped just before dark so ]he went out and watched when I went out to plow. The driveway was about half done when he decided he'd had enough and it was time to go inside. After letting him in I finished the driveway and went to open up the road into my field.

When you get working it's easy to forget about minor things like fingers, but after a couple more hours I realized that I was COLD, and needed to get inside right now. I booked it for home and went inside. He'd been laying next to the stove all of that time and running my fingers through his fur was like putting my cold hands in hot dishwater... it sure felt good.