One that I heard is really funny is putting scotch tape on a cats paws. Each step they shake their paw trying to get the tape off. Looks like Monty Pythons world of funny walks for cats.
The other one I did the other day was hilarious. My cat meows real loud and obnoxious when it wants to go outside. So why it was standing by the door I opened it just a little than shut it right back. I would open it again the cat would try to go through then I would close it again. Then the cat looked up at me “like come on jerkwod let me out” I started laughing then.
Well this went on for about 4 or 5 minutes I’m sorry it was just so funny watching that cat give me dirty looks. So anyway I finally open the door real wide and my cat goes for it. Then, of course, I start to close the door making the cat really haul ass through the door which scares the rabbit(right outside the front door in its cage) so much it jumps so high it hits the top of the cage which scares the cat so much it jumps about 2 ft in the air and then it hauls ass. It was so funny I am still laughing.
Anyway what pranks have you done or heard about that are funny?
Funny to you, mean to the pets. They lack your sophisticated wit, Wildest Bill, and so when you tease them they can’t see the humor in it. They just think you’re being mean.
Well first I appreciate the compliment. Second, what about when you wrestle your dog or when you try to take a ball out of its mouth they know your playing.
Are ya’ll saying cats don’t have a sense of humor.
putting scotch tape on your cats paws is not a big deal as long as it’s not on for very long. However, teasing them with the ol’ open/shut door game for what you described as 5 minutes is a little excessive IMO. Then you go to slam the door on it (and I’m not saying you would, but apparently it doesn’t know that because it got scared) and runs off.
Wrestling with your dog is taken as being playful. Puppies wrestle with each other. Taking a ball from a dog is part of playing – you know when you AND your pet are having fun, not just you?
Well, I don’t know if this is mean or not, but I don’t think it is: My dog will not hold his head higher than mine (since I’m the Alpha male I guess?). So I often catch him when he is on the stairs or someplace where I can get my head lower than his and he can’t get lower than me and his look of “oh sh*t, my head is higher than his, what should I do?”. And he will actually try to crawl UNDER me just so his head will be lower.
I’m not sure if this is a prank, but my cats sure hate it!
I like to play Wheel Barrow Cat. Take their hind legs and make them walk, like a wheel barrow. Some of my cats (I have four) will start off running then panic. But one of them takes a couple of steps, stops, and flops over on it’s side.
Another thing I like to do involves those stuffed spider monkeys, the ones with the velcro hands and feet. I like to velcro the monkey to my cats. The hands go around the neck and the feet go around the middle. They’ll walk around like the Minister of Silly Walks, I tell ya, like what Wildest Bill said. That prank is better than Wheel Barrow Cat.
I told my dog that dot coms were still a pretty good deal on the stock market and that he could leverage more buying on the margin. It was hilarious! That stupid dog lost a bundle on Amazon and Pets.com!
Looking back on it, with my dog losing his entire financial future in one bad trade, maybe it was more than a harmless prank.
Bill, I don’t find this amusing at all. When I want to tease my cats, I pretend to throw paper balls to them, or dangle their fishing toy over their heads, or whip it away from them. Playing.
Making them jump through the door…that’s just ill.
:mad:
Better watch-kitty might decide you’d make a good scratching post and wouldn’t THAT be funny!
:rolleyes:
As long as I’ve had my cats, I’ve made sure to let them know I was the boss. I’ve made sure that they don’t get on the tables or the counter (if I’m around) and if I catch them there, I just snap my fingers and they move. As sort of a side effect of this conditioning, they get a bit jumpy if somone unexpectedly moves something near them.
I get the biggest kick when my Molly is walking by me and I suddenly move my feet. She jumps straight up about 3.5 feet.
Bill, your pets lay awake at night, dreaming of revenge.
My favourite way to play with my stepbrother’s amiable pit-bull was to lead it on a chase through his tiny house, in a big circuit through the living-room & kitchen. Everytime you’d hit the kitchen, the dog would wipe out on the linoleum, and slam into the cupboards. (He loved it, as far as I could tell.)
I don’t approve of any form of cruelty to animals but I have to admit I do enjoy annoying cats (like poking them gently when they’re trying to get to sleep).
Don’t get me wrong I love cats and all. Its just the way that they really, REALLY dont want you to annoy them - thats what makes it so funny.
Dogs actually enjoy a bit of “rough and tumble” so its not the same. But cats would quite obviously rather you just left them alone.
So at first they give you a mildly irritated look hoping you’ll go away then eventually, when it becomes obvious you’re not going to go away, they lash out lightning fast. And you come away with a claw mark on your arm.
So I think cats are fair game. First, because they are quite capable of taking care of themselves. Second, because darn it, they sleep too damn much anyway. And third, because its just so damn funny.
I used to play “Hand of Death” with my cat. I’d put on a thick leather fireplace glove and attack her with it (not in a painful manner, just tickling her stomach and stuff) and she’d go insane attacking it. Of course, I couldn’t feel her bites and claws, so I’d go on attacking her. Problem was, once I was done playing, she’d be all good and riled up and I’d have to throw the glove across the room, she’d take off after it and then I had to run like hell for my room with her on my heels
I never thought of it as “mean”. It was the same as her playing with a fuzzy ball or whatever. Had she actually hissed or showed some sort of “I’m feeling threatened” behaviour, I’d have stopped.
