Strange things your pets do...

[MossRoad]

This site really, REALLY needs a coffee spewing emoji!!! :laughing:

This was before the common home having video equipment, and the dog got too old to travel before David Letterman started doing Stupid Pet Tricks.

How I found out he could sneeze was I was trying to teach him to bark on the command SPEAK! I noticed that when I told him to speak, the first time he'd sneeze really hard, then start barking. If I told him to speak again, he'd just bark. I figured out that if he hadn't barked for several hours, he had to sneeze once or twice before he started barking, and then I guess his nose was cleared out, because he'd then just bark like a normal dog.

So I changed SPEAK to SNEEZE and I'd say "Dog, SNEEZE!" (his name was Dog) and he'd sneeze. :laughing: People would react so funny to that, some looking like they didn't see what they just saw. They'd ask me to have him do it again and I'd always say "He never does the same trick twice." and move on to his other tricks. Always good for a laugh.

I miss that dog. He was my first dog. I found him as a stray when I was maybe 18 years old. He was just so nice. I tried for several months to locate his owner, putting ad in the papers and posted FOUND signs around the neighborhood, but no one claimed him. I had him for 14 years before he passed away.

I named him after the dog in the John Wayne movie Big Jake.

 

[CobyRupert]

Growing up my first tractor driving experience was to rake fields of hay. Didn’t matter if the field took 45 minutes or 3 hours to rake, in sight, or out of sight from the house, our dog would come running out to the field when I was finishing the last windrow and escort me back to the house.

 

[Whidbey]

I have two Jack Russells and one is a hunter specializing in snakes. We brought him in one night and he was agitated and drooling a little bit. I went out with a flashlight and found a four foot copperhead he had torn to pieces. Apparently the snake had bitten him on the tongue. I gave him some pain medication and took him to the vet the next morning. I wish he would not do that!

 

[bunyip]

A Corgi we had used to lift HER leg to pee.

 

[MossRoad]

Was driving with my wife the other day and she sneezed. That made me recall we had a cat that would bless you if you sneezed.

You sneeze, the cat looks at you and did one of those quick stutter meows. He never made that noise at anything other than birds out the window, or when someone sneezed. He did it pretty much every time someone would sneeze. You could even do a fake sneeze and he'd do it. :laughing:

 

[Dftodd]

A Corgi we had used to lift HER leg to pee.

Neighbors chihuahua would balance it self on it's front legs with it's back legs and bottom up over it's head to pee.

Apparently it's common when I witnessed another neighbors chihuahua doing the same thing.

 

[Jstpssng]

To the best of my knowledge Ruger is a full blooded lab, he apparently came from someplace which breeds therapy dogs and he flunked. (They can tell at 6 weeks if the puppy is what they want to spend time and money on.) Yet on the rare occasion that I leave him home he sounds just like a husky... about the time I get to the truck I start hearing "Aoooo. Aoooo", as he cries about being left behind.

 

[Dftodd]

To the best of my knowledge Ruger is a full blooded lab, he apparently came from someplace which breeds therapy dogs and he flunked. (They can tell at 6 weeks if the puppy is what they want to spend time and money on.) Yet on the rare occasion that I leave him home he sounds just like a husky... about the time I get to the truck I start hearing "Aoooo. Aoooo", as he cries about being left behind.

Trainers can pick up on personalities pretty quickly.

Our shepherds trainer imports German shepherds from a breeder in Finland. He gets a litter at a time.

He was training for personal protection exclusively but ran into the issue that some weren't suited for it. So he branched out and got certified for service dogs as well.

He sells the pups with training included for around $1,800.

 

[Jstpssng]

Not to turn this into an "R" rated forum but I just went up to put the turkeys in, with my 9 1/2 YO dog who I had neutered when I got him at 1 YO. I was rather shocked and dismayed went he tried to mount not one, but several of my 25 lb birds.

 

[MossRoad]

I think there's another website for that.... :laughing:

 

[Citydude]

Not to turn this into an "R" rated forum but I just went up to put the turkeys in, with my 9 1/2 YO dog who I had neutered when I got him at 1 YO. I was rather shocked and dismayed went he tried to mount not one, but several of my 25 lb birds.

That had to be a rodeo. We have Boston's. The little male really likes blankets.....Nasty little booger.

 

[MossRoad]

We have a cat that sits on an end table next to an interior wall when it's dark outside and waits for cars to go by. When their headlights come through the side window the light runs across the wall and the cat chases them. Hours and hours. She's a "special" cat.

 

[rademamj1]

Got a Siberian Cat that plays all day with squirrels. Begs to go out in the morning, and then runs to the area in our ranch where the squirrels live. They chase him, and he chases them. I see them from a distance while working with my tractor, and then about 1pm you can find both cat and squirrels taking afternoon naps together. He always comes home like clockwork, right about 5pm asking for his dinner.

 

[Fuddy1952]

This isn't a pet (per se), but hoping someone finds this as funny as we did.
Most of our squirrels are away from house in the woods, but we do have a chipmunk we feed a mix of corn, seeds, peanuts.
It actually knocks on the storm door for food!
Yesterday I put food at end of driveway near it's underground home. I'm walking up driveway, it sees me and grabs an unshelled peanut and runs with it carrying it overhead, running on hind legs like a person...jumping down it's hole.

 

[old and tired]

...running on hind legs like a person...jumping down it's hole.

Get that on video and you can make some money!!!

 

[Dftodd]

Not to turn this into an "R" rated forum but I just went up to put the turkeys in, with my 9 1/2 YO dog who I had neutered when I got him at 1 YO. I was rather shocked and dismayed went he tried to mount not one, but several of my 25 lb birds.

It's a show of dominance.

Our grandsons half brother was over. He's a little sh*t and poster child for birth control.

Everytime he would bend over to pick something up, our 5yo female shepherd would grab him and try riding him. The worst part was she would look over at you and give you the cool "whats up?" look.

 

[Dftodd]

That had to be a rodeo. We have Boston's. The little male really likes blankets.....Nasty little booger.

Our miniature dachshund had his "Love" bear.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Our miniature dachshund had his "Love" bear.

Buddy Hackett, on the Johnny Carson show, told this story about his friend's vicious Pit bull. Seems he was invited to their home for dinner, and they were sitting around after dinner, just visiting, and catching up on their gossip, and the pit bull comes over and starts humping his leg. Buddy said "Hey, stop that!" and the dog looks up at him bares its teeth and gave him a slobbering, vicious growl. Buddy then says "OK, but hurry up!".

 

[Jstpssng]

This one wasn't my pet and it wasn't strange or funny... it did P*** me off though. One of the disadvantages of living on a lonely backroad is that people think it's a good place to dump their unwanted animals, whether it's squirrels, woodchucks, or domestic animals.

On Sunday my neighbors were telling about a kitten they'd seen hanging aroung my chicken coop. I didn't think much of it at the time but...
Last night I got in late so put the turkeys in by flashlight, with the help of Ruger. First thing this AM I went down to let them out and check on the chickens...
That kitten was laying next to the henhouse, dead. I suspect that it starved to death.
Anybody who chooses to get an animal needs to understand that they owe it to that pet to care for it. Among other things they need to spay/neuter it unless they are a bonafide breeder and know what the **** they are doing.
They also need to know that it's a lifelong commitment. If situations change, at least grow a set and take care of it properly; find it a home, leave it with a shelter, or at the very least take it to a vet and have the animal put down.

I am not a cat lover yet I wish that I had put some food out for it, and perhaps a Havahart; then taken it someplace where the animal would have been cared for.

They say there's a special place in **** for people who will abandon an animal; I wish we could give them a taste of that in this life.unch:

I'll get off my soapbox now.:soapbox:

 

[Wagtail]

This one wasn't my pet and it wasn't strange or funny... it did P*** me off though. One of the disadvantages of living on a lonely backroad is that people think it's a good place to dump their unwanted animals, whether it's squirrels, woodchucks, or domestic animals. ...

They say there's a special place in **** for people who will abandon an animal; I wish we could give them a taste of that in this life.unch: ...

I hear ya, Mate. One of my 'next door neighbours' is a State Forest and some critters do get dumped there. Roosters were popular for a while...

Anyway, that's how I came to be adopted by my cat. She showed up, as a kitten, at my backdoor on a cold dark Winter's night. I could just hear a tiny mewing and, as I approached the door I thought to myself, "If I open this door, I'm DOOMED."

Of course I had to open my door. And have the vet check her out. And have her spayed, her 'shots' & worming pill, 'chipped', etc...