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Your pets odd quirks
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29-09-2011 12:34pm#1
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when i have a shower my staffie pokes her head around the door every 20 seconds to make sure im still there. then when im drying myself she sits dead still in front of me and stares until i hang the towel up. weirdo
she also likes licking my tattoos.
she loves her bandanas and will sit with them licking them clean and makes happy pig grunts when i put them on her.0 -
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My dog acts like a cat when she wants cuddles. She'll come up to you and start rubbing her head against your leg the way cats do until you pet her. She hasn't quite learned how to purr yet though :pac:.
She gets food from her bowl and brings it to the other end of the kitchen (where the dining table is) to eat it, and then goes back for more. It's as if she wants to be like "one of the grown-ups" at the big table :pac:.
Also, if you lie on the floor she brings you kibble from her food bowl. It's really sweet
Lpfsox wrote:The current fella has a modern art thing going on with teabags - he'll take them out of the bin and arrange them around the kitchen floor then he'll step back, admire what he's done, rearrange them another bit until he's happy with the whole picture and then leave the kitchen altogether. He doesn't burst the teabags or otherwise play with them and it's really funny to see him pondering his work and then moving one teabag slightly or turning it around until he's happy with it.
That is amazing! Dogs are deadly 0 -
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fluorescence wrote: »
That is amazing! Dogs are deadly
not when I've to tidy up the art and wash the floor it isn't - all the time he's looking at me with a really dismayed face on as if he's saying "sheesh, that took me AGES to do...."
He also does the taking food out of his bowl and bringing it someplace else (the sitting room rug usually) to eat. Only with "delicacies" though that we might give him like a piece of chicken or something, the kibble stays in the bowl all the time.0 -
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Our girl whines loudly and pathetically every time she hears a News jingle - ANY news jingle, be it RTE, BBC, SKY, & all radio channels. I can't figure it out! We got her at 8yrs old from a shelter. Just wondering is this some sort of memory from her previous home life (she had a happy life before, no neglect), and why on earth? Who whines at the news? Nutty Mutty 0
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My dog won't touch the stuffed kong I leave for her when I go out. I think she just lies in her bed and looks at it
When I come home and let her out she'll bounce around all happy then run back in and get her kong and spend the next half hour happily nibbling
This one I certainly won't complain about.... she never chews anything:D She's in the house all the time and in the utility room when we're gone / at night and the worst I've ever found was a torn sheet of kithen roll:p though I think she did open a bucket of fat balls (for birds) once and take one of them into her bed but didn't eat it. I'll occasionally find a sock or slipper in her bed but not chewed.
Yesterday I found a a whole jar of marbles emptied out onto the middle of her bed and the dog just curled up around them:eek: My daughter swears the lid was on properly!
she also does the drop dead thing at bedtime :rolleyes0 -
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My dog loves chasing after lights, especially those pens lights. He'd do it all day if you had the patience to shine it up and down the hall for him. Even if I hold my hand out and pretend to press a torch he'll leg it down the hall searching for a light.
Also if I put a lid of a pot on the floor and give it a twirl he'll bark his head off and wag his tail at the same time. He just looks like he's having the time of his life. He's so easily amused. 0 -
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another quirk i remembered, and anyone with a staffie will recognise this!
the flying headbutt
dolly will run at me and launch herself head first. sometimes she'll get my arm, sometimes a hip but more often than not i get it in the nuts
... and she bloody loves it!
she only does this with me and one or two friends who she knows she's allowed play rough with.
seemingly this is very common with staffs 0 -
Kaiser licks his bed all the time.
He sometimes gets over zealous when licking his paws, and ends up biting himself!
He escorts us to bed and lies down by the bed until he thinks we're asleep and then heads out to his own bed outside the bedroom door.
He hates being outside when we're inside and howls when he's in water.
He sometimes forgets his own spatial awareness
He has loads of little quirks, gives us endless entertainment and we love him to bits.
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i'm loving this thread
my dog oscar sleeps on his side with his paws crosses, if i uncross them he just crosses them again..
i now have the fire lighting again and he falls asleep in front of it but then he wakes up, runs to his bed in the kitchen and drags his blanket back in front of the fire and settles himself again...comfort!!...soo cute
he also has this thing of covering his eyes and thinks that if he cant see us we cant see him..when he knows its time for him to go to the garden while we gone working he jumps into bed and covers his eyes :-)0 -
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Our two kitties have their own strange quirks that we love. Ella, the day we took her home we got her a small teddy, a pink fluffy platypus. She is so protective over it, sleeps with it, chases it and when she is all crazy she throws it in the air and catches it by herself for ages.
She also has a particular spot on the sofa, it's hers and if there's something stopping her from laying there, she'll stand there and stare at you. She meeps too, a squeak noise she makes at everything.
Brody is younger but a huge chubby tomcat. Doesn't realize how big he is, lays all over me and curls his tail around my arms. He also picks his food out and eats from his paw. He sleeps on his back alot with paws in the air, with his fluffy tummy on show. 0 -
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Fabulous thread!
Our dog Shiro does the lying like superman thing too. When he wants to go out for a pee he will come up to you and move his mouth like he is talking but with no sound. He plays fetch by running up to what you've thrown for him, looking at it and leaving it there to come back to you. He ducks his head and lifts his leg to help when putting on his harness to go for a walk.
Rocky on the other hand tries to take his lead from you and walk himself or if not will try and take Shiros lead and walk him. He spins in circles and barks when you are preparing his food and then sit quietly and waits til you tell him its okay to eat it. He curls up like a baby on your lap for cuddles and hooks a paw around your arm to make it harder for you to stop. He pounces on his toys to start playing with them.
If Rocky runs upstairs chasing the cats, Shiro will shoulder into him to give out to him when he comes back down - even if he followed him up there! The funny thing is he learned this off our older dog Jack who passed away earlier this year cos Jack used to do it to him and now he does it to Rocky who came to us after Jack was gone.
Jack used to sing at the ice-cream van.
Our cat Buffy likes to pee in the toilet.0 -
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I often worry my pets are mad, but this thread is reassuring!:p
My boy thinks 10.30 is bedtime, he goes out to the stairs and sighs, comes back to me and nudges my knee, more sighing, then goes back to stairs, sometimes he'll walk back in and flop onto the floor and sigh very loudly, then groan. Just recently he has started going upstairs and getting in my bed if I don't, but he goes to his own bed when I go to bed.
If we go into a new house or shop with tiled or wooden floors, he has to be invited and walk in first, if I go first he will crawl or creep with me nearly dragging him, he hates the feel of the floors and takes a minute to get his footing, he likes to go in slowly under his own steam.
He would sell granny for some broccoli, prefers frozen. He also picked every Pea of my pea plants last year, didn't damage plants just plucked the pods.
Both dog HAVE to have something to give us when we get home, and they have the ability to conjure socks from nowhere!
AdrenalinJunkie, my boy has done the very same with frogs, although he runs away when they jump and slowly creeps back to woof at them again.
Little dog growls at leaves blowing around in the wind, or chases and pounces on them.
Only one of the cats is allowed curl up with Ollie, but anyone else has to sleep not touching him, if they do he runs away.
My god, the more I think the crazier my boy seems, no wonder the lady at the kennels said she thinks he suffers from O.D.D (odd)0 -
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The golden retriever goes up and plays with the new lambs on the farm every year
Of course the sheep go mental seeing this, wondering if he is sizing up the lambs for dinner
The lambs seem to think he is one of their own, he even looks like a sheep, well kind of.
I wonder if the retriever thinks he is a sheep too
He sleeps up in the farmyard with them. It's funny seeing all thirty kg of him bouncing and leaping around with lambs
An honorary sheep
The border collie is a normal dog, hates the sheep and nips and barks at them. Showing them who is boss0 -
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Great thread. Had such a laugh reading these posts. Makes our guy see more normal!
Our fella loves helicoptors. He will even go as far as stopping mid-snack (shock,horror) to run outside and follow the helicoptor in the sky. Sticking his head out through fences and all to keep it in his line of sight for as long as possible with a big, smiley head on him! Maybe he wants to be a pilot when he grows up.....
Same fella loves watching telly. He has a thing for Arnold Swarzenegger (spelling!) on the telly, he will stop mid-gallop to turn and stare at him on the small screen.... obviously it's the voice and not the fantastic acting talent that's caught him!
And wine, the Blossom Hill White blue label bottle only... he will sit and stare at it and try to lick the top and outside of the bottle... he was NEVER given a drop in his little lifetime but somehow he got a taste for it! Fine when family are around and they see the little weirdo staring and drooling, slightly embarassing when it's visitors! 0 -
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My little girl has quite a few.
She also does the Superman position, and often crawls along in said position. I never thought to describe her as Superman though, we call her Slug when she does it
She also does some loud yawns which are very cute. They range from a Michael Jackson style "oowwh" to a strange mix between bark and yawn.
She is also the strangest bed maker I have ever seen. Instead of the usual turn around a few times with a couple of scratches, she makes all sorts of odd, awkward body contortions when making a bed for herself. One time she managed to get herself caught inside the duvet :rolleyes:
Then there are her hyper moments. She gets it into her head sometimes to run around the house and garden like a mad thing. Her back will go into an arch and she looks like a little hare racing around the place. This run will then be interspersed with a big, random leap off all fours into the air.
My boy sometimes likes to slide around the place with his head on the ground and front legs under him, while his back legs push him along. He also loves to sleep under the duvet. He first started doing this just after the Chilean miner rescue, so we started calling him a Chilean miner. These days, all we have to say is that term and he leaps down under the duvet. He's also a lazy lump when it comes to getting up in the morning. If we're up too early he will not want to leave the bed and will use any chance to get back up to it. He's even worse if I'm having a lie in and the OH is up because he really is quite a mummys boy
He also gets very excited when football, tennis, golf - even cricket - come on the tv. Rugby doesn't get him quite so much, it must be something to do with the shape of the ball.
He's a bit mad with his toys as well. He has a couple of ropes, one with a plastic rock at the end, and he loves to spin around with these. At one point last year though, he decided it was fun to swing the rock rope around so that the plastic rock would bang off the floor. We were in an apartment at the time, and arrived home from the shops one day to find a note from the neighbours below us, asking us to stop playing with a ball in our place (didn't realise how thin those ceilings were). The World Cup was on at the time so we probably seemed like sad gits trying to replicate the games in our living room!0
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