Things your pets do that drive you crazy...

mca47

Ok, so I know we all love our pets but what are those things your dogs and cats do that drive you crazy?

The second I leave (I can be gone for 10 mins) I get back and my cat has been on my kitchen counters, knocked everything onto the floor, gone to my home office jumped up on my desk, knocked everything off while walking on my keyboard.
If she's got time, she'll open up my closets and pull clothes off of hangers, and open my dresser and pull out all of my socks.

Drives me f'n crazy, and there isn't much I can do about it because I'm not there to stop her.
I want to get mad, but I really can't.

It's amazing what she can do in 10 mins!

FoxyMop

mca47 wrote:

Ok, so I know we all love our pets but what are those things your dogs and cats do that drive you crazy?

The second I leave (I can be gone for 10 mins) I get back and my cat has been on my kitchen counters, knocked everything onto the floor, gone to my home office jumped up on my desk, knocked everything off while walking on my keyboard.
If she's got time, she'll open up my closets and pull clothes off of hangers, and open my dresser and pull out all of my socks.

Drives me f'n crazy, and there isn't much I can do about it because I'm not there to stop her.
I want to get mad, but I really can't.

It's amazing what she can do in 10 mins!

LOL!!! They are funny when they do stuff like that... though it is annoying when you're in a rush or not in the mood.

My new kitten Cinnamon is obsessive/compulsive about plants. My mom gave me an amaryllis and he constantly digs the dirt out of the pot and flings it everywhere!

There's a bunch more things they do that I can't remember right now :roll:

norm

my dog digs in the exact same place over and over and it's right in front of my backdoor....the first time he dug there, i bought a half gallon of hot sauce and a large container of red pepper flakes and i spread those all over the hole....that worked wonders on any previous holes he's dug...

not this hole....he dug it up a few days later so i repeated the hot sauce/red pepper and then put a large piece of wood over it....he tried but gave up

so last weekend i remove the wood (it's been 4+ months) and 4 days later he's dug it up AGAIN!!! :evil: :evil:

so this time i refilled the hole and put some bricks over it...if he digs around that i'm gonna bury him there :P :twisted:

Wobbie

since this picture was taken, the rabbit in the middle has lost a leg and the pheasant (2nd from right) is now footless like his larger brother.

better than chewing on the couch, I guess.

Wobbie

norm wrote:

my dog digs in the exact same place over and over and it's right in front of my backdoor....the first time he dug there, i bought a half gallon of hot sauce and a large container of red pepper flakes and i spread those all over the hole....that worked wonders on any previous holes he's dug...

not this hole....he dug it up a few days later so i repeated the hot sauce/red pepper and then put a large piece of wood over it....he tried but gave up

so last weekend i remove the wood (it's been 4+ months) and 4 days later he's dug it up AGAIN!!! :evil: :evil:

so this time i refilled the hole and put some bricks over it...if he digs around that i'm gonna bury him there :P :twisted:

Maybe Norm's trying to tell you something............ala Lassie.

Maybe Timmy is buried down there!

jecica

FoxyMop wrote:

My new kitten Cinnamon is obsessive/compulsive about plants. My mom gave me an amaryllis and he constantly digs the dirt out of the pot and flings it everywhere!

Aluminum foil over the dirt and cover it with rocks. We watch a cat that tried to use our potted plants as a litter box. It was the only thing that stopped him...

adropinthepark

imalive wrote:

since this picture was taken, the rabbit in the middle has lost a leg and the pheasant (2nd from right) is now footless like his larger brother.

better than chewing on the couch, I guess.

Oh, you have no idea. My dogs would have those little plush things destroyed in minutes.

:shock: :evil:

JOEJOEJOE

My crane whoops, and my hyena laughs.

norm

imalive wrote:

Maybe Norm's trying to tell you something............ala Lassie.

Maybe Timmy is buried down there!

well he only goes as far as the sprinkler line :?


i think he's batshit crazy :P

Wobbie

adropinthepark wrote:

Oh, you have no idea. My dogs would have those little plush things destroyed in minutes.

:shock: :evil:

Mine focuses on ears, feet, tails, wings, noses......anything that sticks out.

Every fucking day, I have the needle and thread out.

The guy below has lost two legs since this picture was taken.

mfc2006

Sam likes to go to the bathroom right after we spend 10 minutes trying to get him to go to the bathroom outside. i love to clean dog pee, apparently.

Wobbie

mfc2006 wrote:

Sam likes to go to the bathroom right after we spend 10 minutes trying to get him to go to the bathroom outside. i love to clean dog pee, apparently.

He'll learn! :roll:

adropinthepark

imalive wrote:

adropinthepark wrote:

Oh, you have no idea. My dogs would have those little plush things destroyed in minutes.

:shock: :evil:

Mine focuses on ears, feet, tails, wings, noses......anything that sticks out.

Every fucking day, I have the needle and thread out.

That's so cute that you fix them back up.

Not us. We don't have a chance-plus, I got a 'D' in sewing class. :oops:

Right now, I'm spending alone time with our cat. She likes to caterwaul. The apartment management doesn't know about her, afterall, it's hard enough trying to find a rental with two large dogs.
I keep having to shoosh the little girl, but she keeps walking through the place, Meow, meow, meow, meow... on and on and on. Arrrrrrgh.

vedderfan10

Charley sits and stares at the toaster hoping someone will eventually make toast...and if we come into the kitchen, he will look from us to the toaster and from the toaster to us - over and over like he's trying to make us make toast....other times he tries to knock me down the stairs when I go to let him and Remy into the yard...

Austicman

Ice our Big girl>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
At the moment the front of our socks and undie draw has come off and Ice loves my socks. Gets out as many as she can find and chews on them. While Ringo the little man loves my girlfriends undies. Likewise one pair is not enough and by the time I get home theres 4 pair of undies and 6-7 socks lying about the house!!!

Also Ice can't have a drink without dribbling water everywhere when she does. She sticks half her face in the bowl and gulps it down then spray's it all over the floor when shes done.

Flagg

PJ likes to be on the couch with us, which is fine. But if there is a blanket there, he roots and rolls and digs until he is 100% covered by the blanket. There is no use trying to stop him. Blanket comes out, he goes for it every time. He can't just sit with us, or lay on the couch with us. He must be covered with the blanket.

Wobbie

Vedderfan10 wrote:

Charley sits and stares at the toaster hoping someone will eventually make toast...and if we come into the kitchen, he will look from us to the toaster and from the toaster to us - over and over like he's trying to make us make toast.

That's just endearing.

Austicman wrote:

At the moment the front of our socks and undie draw has come off and Ice loves my socks. Gets out as many as she can find and chews on them. While Ringo the little man loves my girlfriends undies. Likewise one pair is not enough and by the time I get home theres 4 pair of undies and 6-7 socks lying about the house!!!

Yeah, it's always a treat when you have company and here comes the pooch, with a mouth full of underwear.

My little girl is good most of the time, but goes into "toy destroy" mode almost nightly....usually about the same time she decides she wants to put the death grip on my leg. :shock:

Whizbang

I have never been able to leave my two girls with soft plush toys. They have nylabones to chew. I do have soft toys that I'll use to train or play with them for a bit but I have to put them away when we're done. I buy the soft frisbees (I never could figure out how to throw the plastic discs) but those fall victim to my oldest chewing the tubing that keeps their shape. Love her dearly but she drives me nuts with chewing on the Frisbees. I'll tell her to leave it...and I get the side-ways, puppy dog look with it still in her teeth "what? leave this? me??". She will also get into the bathroom trash..tissues, Qtips, floss....if you ignore her too long.

My youngest is just the sweetest....but she's just as mischievous. She'll chew when she's locked in their room for the day. She chewed part of the foam cushion for the couch. The only reason I know it's her is that she pukes it up later. I think she figures I'll blame it on my oldest dog.

My "favorite" thing they do is rolling in dead things. Yup...dead things - dead fish, dead bird....anything the two of them can find at the beach that is dead and I'm not watching close enough and they're rolling in it. I tell them to go get in the water, the ocean water works wonders.

mickeyrat

norm wrote:

imalive wrote:

Maybe Norm's trying to tell you something............ala Lassie.

Maybe Timmy is buried down there!

well he only goes as far as the sprinkler line :?


i think he's batshit crazy :P

or just really thirsty!

norm

mickeyrat wrote:

or just really thirsty!

maybe he wants to be a gardener

vedderfan10

ooooh..the dreaded Dead Roll...ick...

One time we were on the "dog beach" in Victoria, and washed up on the beach behind a large log was a very dead seal (rotted out innard/intact ribcage)...while our dogs were swimming, two cute dogs came up to us with really slick almost oily looking hair... And then we smelled them! Just about died...we warned their owners but they didn't seem to care and walked by the seal, hidden by the log...and from where we were, you could see the log, and dog legs in the air as they rolled on their backs inside the ribcage of the seal!! We warned everyone who came by with a dog, but were mostly ignored, so dog by dog we'd see these legs in the air, and then the dog would scamper over to their owners, only to be shooed away with some very loud "eeeeeeeeewww!s"...we just laughed.

Oddly our dogs seemed to be offended by the smelly dogs that came near them - and they just didn't bother with the seal...

But, yeah, Remy used to love rolling in things in the woods...we always hoped it was a dead deer and not a dumped body...she'd come running up to us with these slick patches of fur...reeking of death...She rolled in dog poo once...

You all have such interesting dogs with interesting habits. Dogs like undies because when you're not around, the dog looks for the thing that smells most like you....they also chew your shoes for the same reason - or armpits out of sweatshirts...it's gross, but they do it out of love....

norm

make note:

keep norm away from dead carcasses....knowing him, he would have set up camp in that dead seal :shock: :shock:

Austicman

Vedderfan10 wrote:

You all have such interesting dogs with interesting habits. Dogs like undies because when you're not around, the dog looks for the thing that smells most like you....they also chew your shoes for the same reason - or armpits out of sweatshirts...it's gross, but they do it out of love....

Thats for sure. My girl has thrown about 15 pairs of undies out in the last six months. All of them have a big hole torn in the crotch!!! :shock:
The little ones a detructive force alright. The big one had a bear she used to play with for about 2 years. Caked with slobber but still in one piece. The little man came alone and it took him about 4 months before he started to rip the stuffing out of it. He also loves ripping up paper into tiny bits which has earnt his the nickname of The Shredder!!

mert

I sleep in the basement... And my housemate's cat Fluff likes to use my chest as a springboard to get to the window above my bed, preferably when I'm sleeping. :roll:

He attacks anyone's limbs if they hang over the edge of the couch.

As all cats, Fluff demands attention as soon as you're too busy to give cuddles.

We live on one of the busiest streets in my city; it's the end of a one way street where it merges with a Boulevard, so the traffic gets flying by the time they get past our house. Obviously there is an anti-outside kitty law.... So he lurks in the dark basement, waiting for the door to open, then runs for the open door. We use the side door only so at least he isn't running onto the road, but he gives us a heart attack every time he does it. And once he is outside, he freezes and remembers how much he hates it outside. :x

Ahh, cats.

vedderfan10

Why did Jon & Kate + 8 get two German Shepherd puppies?

Maybe they'll post on here about their pets' habits...seems their existance drives Kate crazy...


PS. Autisicman - my other dog (dearly departed) yeah...I lost so many pairs of Levi's - I'm talking HUGE irreperable holes...it was mind-boggling...

SPEEDY MCCREADY

my cat is too stupid and lazy to do anything that drives me crazy....

she sleeps 18 hours a day....
and eats the other 6.....

if she wakes up and stretches....and maybe throws in a yawn or 2........

then she has had a BIG day!!!!! hehehehehehehe

rockpants

My dog nibbles my hair. He doesn't eat it, just nibbles, but he does accidentally ingest a broken strand from time to time ... ever seen a poop-ka-bob?

Picture taken mere milliseconds before the attack!

Thoughts_Arrive

Jumps on and walks on my brand new car, so I have to put a car cover on everytime I am home so I don't get mud paw prints and scratches on the paint.

Damages the fly screen on the door by putting his claws in it.

When I am reversing my car he won't move out of the way, or when I want to park it he won't move.


But I still love him.

evenflow

rockpants wrote:

My dog nibbles my hair. He doesn't eat it, just nibbles, but he does accidentally ingest a broken strand from time to time ... ever seen a poop-ka-bob?

Picture taken mere milliseconds before the attack!

You have one awesome dog. How old is he?
I've got a miniature weenie dog also. She just turned 2 on February 2nd and she only weighs 8lbs. For a dog that little she will eat anything. That includes the bottoms of all of our cabinets, the stuffing out of our comforter, and the most annoying, any toy that our little girl has. She (our daughter) has a bunch of those little plastic pretend foods and Beenie (the Dog) loves to eat them. It pisses off my wife more than it does me though.

evenflow

Here is lil' Beenie. This is the night of the failed diaper experiment. Just another thing she shredded

AtPeacewithMyLust

Jasmine refuses to look happy when I dress her up in her hotdog coustume. She hates Halloween
I only made her wear it for a few minutes though. There are so many cute Dachshunds here!