Strange things your pets do...

[Dftodd]

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

My grandmothers hair dresser had a pet skunk. It was a friendly little thing. They did end up putting a hunter orange cat collar on it after one of the neighbors almost shot it.

Freaked him out when the skunk kept following him around. Of course his first thought was rabies.

Skunk had it's fogger removed and was current on it's rabies vaccination.

Of course it's illegal to do that now with out permits. But back in the 70's it was quite common to know someone who had a pet racoon or skunk in rural Vermont.

The one we had was found in one of my great grandfathers live traps. Was just a baby. So Dad and Mom took it in and raised it. But it could come and go through the fresh air vent in the trailer we lived in at the time.

We had it for about 9 months, then it found a mate and moved on. It would come and go during the day. Then dad would put a foot stool leg on top of the fresh air vent at night to keep the coon out. In the morning, they would remove the foot stool and Bandit would come in and make her rounds. Wash her paws in the dog and cats water bowl and eat her breakfast.

 

[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.

 

[Fuddy1952]

My in-laws had a gray shorthair Tom cat "Meese". He was about average size, maybe 15 pounds but mean as snot. I picked him up a couple times and he was solid muscle. He killed everything that came in their yard, including an adult racoon (no small feat for a house cat). He had this opossum he let eat with him until it was full grown then he killed it .
One day I heard mother-in-law feeding Meese on their back porch when I see a neighbors rottweiler trotting down the alley to get some of Meese's food.
This I gotta see, so I quickly ran around to the back yard.
Meese had this funny "ninja" like fighting technique where he'd lower his head then his claws were straight out like a blurr. Uh-oh...the dog went for his food, Meese lowered his head. All I saw was the rottweiler rolling backwards, blood spurting, the dog went home yelping.
A few minutes go by...phone rings, wife answers. A neighbor lady's yelling "your cat just tore up our dog!" Wife calmly said "Your dog was in our yard eating my cat's food, and if it was MY rottweiler I'd be too embarrassed to call". She hung up.

 

[MossRoad]

My in-laws had a gray shorthair Tom cat "Meese". He was about average size, maybe 15 pounds but mean as snot. I picked him up a couple times and he was solid muscle. He killed everything that came in their yard, including an adult racoon (no small feat for a house cat). He had this opossum he let eat with him until it was full grown then he killed it .
One day I heard mother-in-law feeding Meese on their back porch when I see a neighbors rottweiler trotting down the alley to get some of Meese's food.
This I gotta see, so I quickly ran around to the back yard.
Meese had this funny "ninja" like fighting technique where he'd lower his head then his claws were straight out like a blurr. Uh-oh...the dog went for his food, Meese lowered his head. All I saw was the rottweiler rolling backwards, blood spurting, the dog went home yelping.
A few minutes go by...phone rings, wife answers. A neighbor lady's yelling "your cat just tore up our dog!" Wife calmly said "Your dog was in our yard eating my cat's food, and if it was MY rottweiler I'd be too embarrassed to call". She hung up.

My parents told me stories about a large cat they had before I was born. All the dogs in the neighborhood were scared of it. They'd frequently see it riding dogs' backs down the sidewalk. :laughing:

They had pictures of it sitting in the bathtub with one of my siblings. It's head was sticking out of the bubbles and it was wearing a party hat. Wish I still had that picture.

 

[Jstpssng]

My in-laws had a gray shorthair Tom cat "Meese". He was about average size, maybe 15 pounds but mean as snot. I picked him up a couple times and he was solid muscle. He killed everything that came in their yard, including an adult racoon (no small feat for a house cat). He had this opossum he let eat with him until it was full grown then he killed it .
One day I heard mother-in-law feeding Meese on their back porch when I see a neighbors rottweiler trotting down the alley to get some of Meese's food.
This I gotta see, so I quickly ran around to the back yard.
Meese had this funny "ninja" like fighting technique where he'd lower his head then his claws were straight out like a blurr. Uh-oh...the dog went for his food, Meese lowered his head. All I saw was the rottweiler rolling backwards, blood spurting, the dog went home yelping.
A few minutes go by...phone rings, wife answers. A neighbor lady's yelling "your cat just tore up our dog!" Wife calmly said "Your dog was in our yard eating my cat's food, and if it was MY rottweiler I'd be too embarrassed to call". She hung up.

That's funny! :laughing: We had a big yellow tom when I was growing up that would run off any dog who wandered onto the property. One day a big Irish setter followed us home on our bicycles, as he was prone to do. The cat promptly ran him off. That summer my Aunt and Uncle stopped by with their little beagle who wouldn't hurt a fly... but it sure put that cat in it's place.

 

[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:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

My in-laws had a gray shorthair Tom cat "Meese". He was about average size, maybe 15 pounds but mean as snot. I picked him up a couple times and he was solid muscle. He killed everything that came in their yard, including an adult racoon (no small feat for a house cat). He had this opossum he let eat with him until it was full grown then he killed it .
One day I heard mother-in-law feeding Meese on their back porch when I see a neighbors rottweiler trotting down the alley to get some of Meese's food.
This I gotta see, so I quickly ran around to the back yard.
Meese had this funny "ninja" like fighting technique where he'd lower his head then his claws were straight out like a blurr. Uh-oh...the dog went for his food, Meese lowered his head. All I saw was the rottweiler rolling backwards, blood spurting, the dog went home yelping.
A few minutes go by...phone rings, wife answers. A neighbor lady's yelling "your cat just tore up our dog!" Wife calmly said "Your dog was in our yard eating my cat's food, and if it was MY rottweiler I'd be too embarrassed to call". She hung up.

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[PILOON]

In my mother's youth she has a pet skunk, pet raccoon and later on a pet crow.
Family was real animal lovers.
Funniest was the crow as he shared meals with the dog and learned to bark.
Was often seen riding on the dogs back.
That crow also became the 'watch dog' and would bark to announce visitors.
The crow was however a thief.
The FIL was a commercial artist that lettered vehicles and the crow would steal his paint brushes as the ferrules would be attractive prizes.
From time to time FIL had to climb on the roof to recuperate his 'borrowed' brushes.
That barking crow would migrate annually but come back every spring and 'bark' his return.

Crows are super smart, they know the difference between a shotgun and a painted broomstick.
Inlaws were ardent outdoors types and crow shooting was cheap target practice in those days.
Besides clay pidgins (skeet) cost money and crows were free.

 

[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.