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What your pet did to make you smile today!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    The little one is staying "with granny" at the moment as part of our shared custody agreement and she was on the phone to me last night. Little angel, singing/howling down the phone when she heard my voice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,924 ✭✭✭Whatsisname


    The difference between a labrador and a king charles

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭aonb


    For lunch today (I feed mine at lunch time) my dogs had potatoes/green beans & cod :) I mashed the potato into the fish, and cut the beans (cooked) up very very very very very small. When I went to collect their dishes, younger dog had taken about 55,000 pieces of green bean and left them on the floor beside his bowl :D guess he doesnt like green beans huh?!? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭reallyrose


    Swanson LOVES green beans. He crunches from one end to the other and gives out when he doesn't get to eat every green bean available.

    Stupid, weird, cat.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭reallyrose


    reallyrose wrote: »
    Swanson LOVES green beans. He crunches from one end to the other and gives out when he doesn't get to eat every green bean available.

    Stupid, weird, cat.


    Oh, he also likes dried seaweed as it turns out. He stole some from me and went MENTAL for it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭AryaStark


    I had such a laugh watching my husky pup try to swim and eat water at the same time! She gets so excited its great fun to watch!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    I have a guinea pig called Nyx (or Nyxie-Pig, as she gets called) who's quite dog-like. She knows her name and comes running when she's called, she loooooooves getting petted, and also likes to settle into a nice lying-down position when you pet her just right.

    Yesterday I was giving her a little shoulder massage and then started scratching behind her ears so she lay down really flat and started to close her eyes. Then she (accidentally?) rolled onto her back to expose her belly, which guinea pigs generally hate. Realising what she had done, she leapt up in the most graceless manner and ran off to hide in her house in shame :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭reallyrose


    Our little Davy kitten went missing about two weeks ago and the other cat, Swanson has been moping. He's a different cat now. He goes out for a bit and then just comes in and sleeps, in between occasional bouts of being completely mental - running around the flat like his tail is on fire.
    But last night I went into my room and he had somehow put himself under the duvet with just his paws sticking out and it made me laugh.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    Phoe just wiggled off the couch and looked across the room at me to check if I saw him :o scarlet for him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,799 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    I left all the doors open last night because of the heat. As a consequence, I spent ten minutes running around moving furniture in the sitting room trying to catch a live pygmy shrew that Murph brought me in as a present. The poor thing was squeaking like crazy. I managed to catch it in a pint glass and put it outside. Cats are mad!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sparkle_23


    aonb wrote: »
    For lunch today (I feed mine at lunch time) my dogs had potatoes/green beans & cod :) I mashed the potato into the fish, and cut the beans (cooked) up very very very very very small. When I went to collect their dishes, younger dog had taken about 55,000 pieces of green bean and left them on the floor beside his bowl :D guess he doesnt like green beans huh?!? :D

    My dog Twinkle that we had when I was younger used to do that! She hated broccoli and would take out all the pieces and leave them on the floor! I had completely forgotten about her doing that until I read your post! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 303 ✭✭rotun


    Yesterday, A lady picked up her dog so it could press the pedestrian lights button. We were stopped to let her cross anyway.

    The kids are still laughing about it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,304 ✭✭✭shamrock55


    Our small lad was out the back today watering plants with his watering can, next thing i hear him screaching so i ran out to find him pouring the contents of the watering can all over snowy the cat who was stretched out in the sun, thing is she never budged she loved getting a soaking and our young lad was loving it too, she really is one strange creature:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,296 ✭✭✭✭gimmick


    Not my pet, but where I walk my dog there are a load of horses. Yesterday evening before going out, I found an apple in the fridge which was a bit bruised and didn't look too nice, so I said I would bring it with me for one of the horses.

    So I gave it to a horse last night, he seemed quite happy with me.

    This morning while walking the dog again in the same spot, the horse who I gave the apple to came over to me, gave me a nudge and just stood there with me for about 10 minutes taking rubs and presumably wondering why I didn't have another apple for him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,510 ✭✭✭baby and crumble


    Both myself and my gf are sick with flu at the moment so poor twitch hasn't been getting out that much- we really don't want to risk him getting a respitory problem which happens with rodents a lot. Anyway last night I popped him in a treat into his cage and when he heard me open the door he ran out of his bed and was begging to get out for a run! Poor little guy I felt awful jut closing te door on him. :(

    Still made me smile though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,046 ✭✭✭jimf


    Both myself and my gf are sick with flu at the moment so poor twitch hasn't been getting out that much- we really don't want to risk him getting a respitory problem which happens with rodents a lot. Anyway last night I popped him in a treat into his cage and when he heard me open the door he ran out of his bed and was begging to get out for a run! Poor little guy I felt awful jut closing te door on him. :(

    Still made me smile though!

    I think at times our pets are better than medicine to make us feel better or should than be guilty about ourselves


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,510 ✭✭✭baby and crumble


    jimf wrote: »
    I think at times our pets are better than medicine to make us feel better or should than be guilty about ourselves

    I agree, it's just that hamsters are really susceptible to lung problems, and can catch human illnesses really easily. Id love to have him out for a cuddle but I have to be responsible.

    Stupid being an adult. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭mymo


    Went up to bed last night and Oliver was in the middle of my bed, so I said half talking to myself, "Oliver you're gonna have to move" and he got up and moved over to the side of the bed and laid down with a sigh!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭Meemars


    Token gets very excited when I come to pick her up after she's been staying at her Granny's, even if just for a few hours. Yesterday she was full of beans waiting for me to finishing my visit and start our evening walk. Off we went, she barking her head off, very excited, and she came across a decent bit of tree that had fallen down, way more than just a branch. Nothing for it but she had to pick it up and try to take off at full belt with it! Thing was Wahaay too big for her, I nearly broke laughing at her trying to head down the hill at full clip with a massive half-tree!!

    Also, if we stop off to have a walk somewhere else on our way home in the car, then once we get home, she starts asking to go for her evening walk again, like we haven't just been! It's like a walk on the way home doesn't count, we have to leave from our house to make it count!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,264 ✭✭✭✭Alicat


    I was lying in bed this morning, and looked towards the doorway, where my cat, Riggs, was sitting, staring at me. So I started to play peek-a-boo with him behind the duvet and I could see him start to get excited, swishing his tail, his eyes getting that crazy cat look. One last peek and he was on his tippy-toes, back arched, tail in the air, and he makes a bolt for it, heading straight at me... And accidentally steps on my hair dryer on the floor (on the button!) :D Well he nearly pooed his furry pants. He leapt into the air and disappeared so fast. Haven't seen him since!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,296 ✭✭✭✭gimmick


    gimmick wrote: »
    Not my pet, but where I walk my dog there are a load of horses. Yesterday evening before going out, I found an apple in the fridge which was a bit bruised and didn't look too nice, so I said I would bring it with me for one of the horses.

    So I gave it to a horse last night, he seemed quite happy with me.

    This morning while walking the dog again in the same spot, the horse who I gave the apple to came over to me, gave me a nudge and just stood there with me for about 10 minutes taking rubs and presumably wondering why I didn't have another apple for him.

    We are solid buddies now.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭SillyMangoX


    My brother was trying to get peach to go out to the utility to have some food but she was refusing to follow him. I was taking the p*ss by telling him to pat his leg and say heel to get her to come, but it actually worked and she followed him out!! Myself and my mam were in hysterics. My cat has somehow taught herself to heel :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,304 ✭✭✭shamrock55


    My brother was trying to get peach to go out to the utility to have some food but she was refusing to follow him. I was taking the p*ss by telling him to pat his leg and say heel to get her to come, but it actually worked and she followed him out!! Myself and my mam were in hysterics. My cat has somehow taught herself to heel :D

    Eh no she hasnt, doesnt heel mean stop??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,046 ✭✭✭jimf


    shamrock55 wrote: »
    Eh no she hasnt, doesnt heel mean stop??


    heel means to walk behind and follow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    shamrock55 wrote: »
    Eh no she hasnt, doesnt heel mean stop??
    No.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭SillyMangoX


    shamrock55 wrote: »
    Eh no she hasnt, doesnt heel mean stop??

    Heel is walk beside your heels, stay is to stop!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Before we even take the hoover out of the cupboard we have to open either the back or front door, whichever is closest to the room Toby is in as he's terrified of the hoover and he flees from the house. 2 days of angle grinder on concrete in the garden, which makes a lot scarier noises, meh, not so much as a batted eyelash. Strange little purry creatures.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,130 ✭✭✭✭Gael23




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I played a video of fish in an aquarium with the sound of waves for Felix a few minutes ago and he was fascinated, they're designed for cats, now he's falling asleep purring.:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,591 ✭✭✭patmac


    I started doing Pilates recently, so I had half an hour to kill this morning, so I tried to do a few exercises at home. I persevered after Binky started licking my face, but literally fell around the floor laughing when she started licking my feet!


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