Everyone with a cat has dozens of “My cat is so strange . . .” stories, but I never hear any from dog owners.
So, what? Are dogs demented too, or just boring? Hehe.
Everyone with a cat has dozens of “My cat is so strange . . .” stories, but I never hear any from dog owners.
So, what? Are dogs demented too, or just boring? Hehe.
My dogs bark when the doorbell is rung. You may not think this is strange, but the only do it when the doorbell is on TV. Never if it really is the doorbell.
My one dog used to (she quit) take the kids’ stuffed animals and surround herself with them in the closet. Maybe she thought they were puppies?
Dogs are indeed just as strange as cats. They’re just not so snooty about it!
I’ve shared some of my dogs weird habits recently in another thread, but his best bizzarro thing is his “silent bark”. When he wants a treat, he puts all the energy and motion into a bark, but absolutely nothing comes out. It’s hilarious.
Yeah, dogs are as weird as cats, just in different ways. There’s the obsession with eating “kitty crunchies” from the litterbox, for one thing. Also, Dolly the Vicious Attack Hound likes to stand on the arms and back of the armchair to bark at stuff, and perches up there to watch us come in or out of the house.
Mine’s perfectly odd. Yesterday, she had her hind leg in her mouth up to the knee. And she can get very riled up at the sight of dogs on TV.
At this moment, she’s chasing a Kong treat ball around the patio, trying to get the last goodie out of it. She’s been trying for two weeks to get that last bit out, and goes at it for a good 15 minutes every so often, gives up and then goes for something less difficult like a stuffed critter or rawhide bone.
I have two cats and one dog. One of my cats is definately strange (but she is almost 18 years old!) The other cat is about 9 months old - he’s absolutely normal.
My dog, on the other hand is quite absurd. He is a cross breed between a white German Shepherd and a Golden Labrador. He actually looks like a large dingo.
Anyway, he loves the rain. We have a track worn in our back yard through the grass. Whenever there’s going to be some rain coming he paces back and forth (sometimes all afternoon) until those first few drops of rain start to fall. He occasionally stops that “pacing” turns around and around in circles, then stops dead-still just staring up at the sky and barking.
It’s actually quite handy at times, because it’s always a warning to me to bring in my laundry off the clothes line when he does this routine.
He also loves to chase his tail, once again, around and around and barking non-stop as soon as anyone steps outside.
His name is “Talbot”… and the funniest thing is, because of his incessant barking we constantly yell out “Talbot, No!” We have a cockatoo who lives next door, that has heard that so much that the cockatoo now yells at the dog whenever he starts barking! That cockatoo sounds exactly like my partner’s voice! Poor dog gets a bit confused as to who is yelling out at him!
Oh hell yes. I have a mini aussie. She has an eating disorder. She won’t eat unless I’m home. That’s not the weird part. The weird part is that, depending upon how stressed she gets during the day. She’ll hide food in tiny piles in various places in the house.
She’s even “stolen” a pile of dirty clothes, dragged it to her food dish, turned her food dish over and carefully buried the food under the clothing and tucked in the sides.
Strange?
I love the hoarding of stuffed animals and burrying food under clothes.
And that parrot. Hehe.
Dogs also seem to be strange, but not strange in the same ways as cats.
Anyone have dogs that hallucinate like cats do? Like, my cat will just attack the carpet. And then jump back like it attacked her in return.
My mum has a Airedale. She is frigging nuts.
Mum spends half her life buying squeaky toys, cause when the squeak is gone kate does not love the toy anymore. She lies there for hours going SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK (oh that’s not annnoying when you visit!) the second the SQUEAK doesn’t happen she is back to whorishly looking for a pat.
The second dinner is done she goes and sits next to the lolly jar ( sweets, candy whatever you call them) she never gets one, she just seems to know after people eat, desert comes. She lives in hope.
Her worst habit is licking the tv during wildlife programmes. One minute all is normal. Next minute you are trying to cope with Steve Irwin and a dog licking his crocs… all at once . ICK. She doesnt seem to care what “animals” are on tv. She was licking ants on tv last time I visited.
The 16 year old cat has to put up with being licked while she eats too, but thats between the two of them.
She’s a bloody odd dog.
they eat shit.
ok, some. still…
My dog Ivan likes to play with the food dishes. After he’s finished eating, he will step in the (stainless steel) dishes to turn them over, and then will scoot them noisily around the kitchen floor. We call it “Dog Shuffleboard.” He only does it when we’re not watching – if we go into the kitchen, he’ll stop.
And he does what we call “Dog Art” with the dog dishes. He’ll stack them one inside the other, or one propped against the other. Sometimes he carries them outside and puts them in the garden. He does it with great care. He’s a hoot.
My angel dog Sasha loved her toys. Cammie, the other female dog in the house, would steal toys and hide them in her crate to keep them away from Sasha. She hasn’t done it since Sasha’s been gone, so it was definitely done just to p*ss off Sasha.
I loves my dogs.
Are humans as strange as dogs and cats?
Sorry for the hijack… been wanting to share that 'toon for days…
My old Max wasn’t strange. Sure, he thought the cat’s litter box was his candy dish… and he barked at garlic and used to run away to the pet store, but, he wasn’t strange.
LOL!! I love the “the throw pillow must die” attitude of cats. I’m not sure if my aussie is “hallucinating” or not, but she will frequently start RACING about the house at tops speeds, spinning on her butt (think of a race car doing brodies), then taking off and racing about more, barking the whole while.
She doesn’t normally bark at other times. I believe that, at those times, she’s having some canine version of “cat crazies”.
My new puppy, who is a standard aussie, doesn’t seem to be strange. Yet.
Oh they’re weird, all right.
My mom’s dog decided a pair of black house slippers were her “puppies”. She was a toy Manchester so the slippers were bigger than she was but she was obsessed with them. She’d drag 'em out from under the bed, even wiggle into the closet, to get at them. She’d skulk under and around furniture to keep out of sight, then dash behind the couch with them. Ordinarily she was a very mellow, friendly dog but went growled and snapped when we tried to retrieve them. When mom actually tried to wear them, the pooch would prance nervously right along her feet.
Mom finally just gave them to her and bought a new pair of slippers.
My dog–black Lab/Shep mix–is totally indifferent to most animals. She’ll glance at other dogs, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, but she’s very ho-hum about them. Birds, now, send her totally bonkers. Nary an attack robin or sparrow has ever fluttered near one of us, by gosh.
They don’t call it “barking mad” for nuthin’.
TVeblen,
My mother had a toy Manchester that fell in love with a pair of slippers! She’d stand by the closet door and cryyyyyy until she could get to her beloved pink terrycloth slippers. I have no idea why she became so attached to those ugly things. Maybe it’s a breed thing.
My dogs have their own weirdnesses.
Strut doesn’t bark when he wants something. He just spins in tiny circles. And always counter clockwise. If he wants dinner, he spins by his food dish. If he wants outside, he spins by the door. If he’s locked in a room (a frequent occurrance since he can open doors if he can push them but he can’t pull them), he just spins on the other side of the door. Sometimes it takes me forever to find the darn dog as he’s spinning frantically on the other side of some door. He’ll also come to me sometimes and just start spinning. Obviously he wants something, but I never know what it is.
Maddy won’t play fetch–but she will play defense. She’ll see another dog playing fetch and run interference. She’ll wait patiently by someones leg’s as they throw a ball or stick. Then she’ll run like hell–but not after the thrown object, after the other dog. Then she’ll tackle them. I’ve got to say, she’s quite skilled at it since she’s only a little sheltie and she’s tackled much larger dogs.
My pit mix (doesn’t that sound like a very disturbing party snack)just yesterday farted and was so suprised that that noise had come out of him. He spun around and tried to glare at his on butt. I was falling of my chair laughing.
My rottie always lets the smaller dogs, like my sister’s corgi, get him pinned to the ground and then lets them chew on his head. Very strange.
I meant the pit tried to glare at his OWN butt and, yes, I should preview