Weird things your pets do

[Outdoor Girl]

One of my supervisor's cats likes to bury his toy mice in the food bowl.  Fortunately, his brother is the tolerant sort, since they share.

[ladyknight1]

I have now learned the hard way. Buy one more piece of chicken than you plan to eat, because my two carpet sharks will circle you like an injured seal until you give them a tiny bit of chicken. I call it the poultry frenzy.

[LEMon]

Someone mentioned a cat that didn't like blowing leaves.  Our pup does not like walking on leaves.  Fall sees the most interesting manuevers as she tries to walk down the sidewalk without stepping on leaves, while remembering where she needs to tell us to cross the road or the house doggies will bark at us.

[SamiHami]

uh... when I was a kid, we had a male cat (non-neutered) bring home a kitten once

Did you keep the kitten?

[SamiHami]

I'm such a dork! How could I forget to tell you all about Sammy's daily quest to save us from a sock uprising?

Every morning without fail, he jumps on the bed while I am getting dressed. I tend o get colder than DH, so I have an extra blanket on my side. It has a big, yellow smiley face on it. That is the arena. Sammy takes a fuzzy Christmas sock (that he stole from me a long time ago) and attacks it for all it's worth. It can get very heated! He does this every day, and never ever ever ever plays with/attacks the sock anywhere else. It must be in the arena.


Sammy resting after one of his epic battles.

[rain]

uh... when I was a kid, we had a male cat (non-neutered) bring home a kitten once

Did you keep the kitten?

of course (she was kind of a shared cat with our neighbor)- but she was extremely feral - never did get to touch her

[Gyburc]

A former goose kept trying to mate with me.

I've heard other goose owners say this. Fortunately, Titan has not tried this with me so far! 

I really need to set up a fence in the garden to keep the geese away from the house. Our new back doors are French doors, so the geese spend all of their time sitting outside trying to see what we are doing in the house (and if we are likely to be bringing them food). Titan keeps trying to bite through the glass, and every time one of us goes past the door, all three of them start shouting at us. 

Sounds like the goose version of football on TV.

"Throw the corn! No, you fool! Over here!"
"What's he doing?"
"Passing, I think. Throw the corn out here! C'mon, THROW IT!"
<sigh> "Scraggy, he can't hear you through the glass..."

Yep, that's our house, and our geese! Except that we can actually hear them, and it's really distracting. 

[Mal]

I can add another catnip-like smell-fetish of my cat:
Raw, unpeeled carrots...

[Ginger G]

Background - I've taught a few of my cats to fetch over the years, but not one has taken to it quite the way my two year old tabby Charlie has.  He is obsessed with it as much as any dog I've ever seen.  You'll be sitting there minding your own business and he will keep bringing toys until you give in and play.  If you continue to try to ignore him, he will jump up and put the toy in your lap.  I've woken up covered with toys on more than one occasion.

So, this past Friday I was laying on the couch trying to recover from Thanksgiving which I had hosted at my home.  My back was hurting from all the cooking and cleaning I had been doing all week.  Normally we put our Christmas tree up either the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving, but with my back hurting there was no way that was going to happen until the next weekend.   So, I was laying there and Charlie comes up to me and he has something odd hanging out of his mouth.  I took the item from him, and to my surprise it was a sealed ziplock bag full of Christmas tree ornament hooks.  I have NO idea where he got it, it should have been up in the attic with the Christmas stuff.  I guess that was his way of telling me he knows it's time to decorate for Christmas! 

[rain]

I can add another catnip-like smell-fetish of my cat:
Raw, unpeeled carrots...

um.... for oddness your kitty wins, but for being attracted to stinky things ... my cat just loves my DS's soccer shoes - he really goes wild rubbing his cheeks on them & trying to play with them

[MerryCat]

Rain, my cats like stinky shoes too. Mitten also  likes to hide her favorite toys in your shoe and push them all they way down to the toes.  If you try to jam your shoes on without checking for toys first you end up with sore toes.

[SamiHami]

Rain, my cats like stinky shoes too. Mitten also  likes to hide her favorite toys in your shoe and push them all they way down to the toes.  If you try to jam your shoes on without checking for toys first you end up with sore toes.

Sammy used to do that when he was a kitten!

[LibraryLady]

My BIL is a farmer and he wore his farm boots here one time ( they had the smell of cow manure on them), he took them off at the door,
and I think perhaps some dried grains fell off.  After they left, Junior my old cat, sniffed the area and reacted to it just like catnip!  He laid on it
squirmed all over it, purred up a storm (and he is not a purr-er) and just went crazy.
He was a sad kitty when we vaccuumed the area.   

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

Our hound mix, Caleb, has a thing for wet hair and towels, or maybe it's the hair products, we're not sure. Whatever the case, if I stoop to give him cuddles with my hair wrapped in a towel, he goes bonkers wanting to roll on it, and on my head. A few nuzzles and shoulder rolls, and he's a happy little lad. We've started to call it "dognip".

[Snooks]

I can add another catnip-like smell-fetish of my cat:
Raw, unpeeled carrots...

Mine too, except we noticed it when we were eating raw carrots and talking to the cat.  She almost had her head in our mouths trying to get to the smell.