Give us something quirky your pet does or did. I had a cat that would only drink from a red Solo cup. What about your

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[MichMan]

1. My dog would find used washcloths, take them in the bedroom to rub her face in them

If you caught her, she would act all embarrassed

My current dog watches TV; any animal of any kind she will growl and bark at it.

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3. Thank you very much MichMan. Thank is very funny.

[Shermann]

2. I had a dog who would sometimes howl along when I played guitar.

He had pretty decent timing but was a little pitchy.

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5. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHH. Thank you Shermann. for sharing your dog's musical abilities.

[Nanuke]

4. I have two kitties who I give a fancy treat everyday in individual bowls set down at the same time in front of each cat.

Samson will never start eating until Nora starts first. He watches and waits every time.

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6. That's great, Thank you Nanuke for sharing the adventures of Samson and Nora.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Sometimes my little dog refuses to eat unless I hand feed her.

And I have to give her a little peanut butter as a topper or she refuses to eat her dog food.

She is a tad bit spoiled.

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8. Thank you Irish_Dem. My Dolly Dog goes through that too. I have to sometimes use a baby spoon to feed her. Yes, Spoiled

[Irish_Dem]

13. I am glad I am not the only one.

I thought hand feeding her was too much.
My little dog would probably love being fed with a baby spoon.

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14. Dolly , will go back and forth with me using the spoon. When she eats by herself, spoon must be on the left hand plate.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Sometimes my little dog won't eat until I put some of her food on the carpet next to her bowl.

Kind of like priming the pump. She will eat the kibble on the carpet and only then eat it out of her bowl.

I guess our dogs have us well trained.

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16. That's for sure. Irish_Dem

[mwmisses4289]

9. Isn't quirky normal in cats? 😸

We have several cats. Some of their quirks:
1. A few will only drink water from a large ceramic mug that says "live in the meow".
2. One will only eat canned food from a fork or spoon.
3. One will bang the metal water bowl around when it is empty: "fill this up now, hoomun".
4. One will jump on our shoulders and proceed to rub and roll around. He will also rub and roll on our heads when we sit in the recliner.

Living with cats is certainly entertaing!

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10. Thank you very much. Cats have their way of getting what they want, when they want.

[milestogo]

11. I had a dog who started howling in the car when this song came on the radio:

I was laughing so hard I couldn't drive straight.

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12. HAAHAHAHHAHAH. Thank you milestogo. That is so funny.

[3catwoman3]

17. Our big black-and-brown, green-eyed male tabby, Winston, who is now 13...

...absolutely loves arugula, spinach, brussels sprouts leaves, and cooked cauliflower. He recognizes the crackly sound of the packaging of the arugula and spinach and will appear the moment he hears it. I've seen him leave a bowl of kibble if there's "salad" to be had.

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18. Thank you very much 3catwoman3. Winston must be a very healthy cat.

[pansypoo53219]

46. my basil loved fresh beans + would eat frozen peas. sybil loved tomato juice.

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51. Thank you very much, pansypoo53219, for sharing about basil and sybil. That is differrent for sure.

[Emile]

19. My cat Rudy, after eating his full will sniff

the remaining food in his bowl and then scratch the floor as if he's burying a turd.

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20. HAHAHHAHAhhaha. That is so funny of Rudy. Thank you very much, Emile.

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23. If I didn't get the right brand, my cats would cover it like a turd while the food was still in the plate and walk away.

[Emile]

42. Rudy wants a sprinkle of fiber on his can cat food

or he won't eat it. It does help his digestive system, lol.

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44. HAHAHAHHAH. Dolly gets a teaspoon on her food. The vet has her on a special diet as she has two really bad digestion

problems that had her in the Animal Hospital.

[CanonRay]

21. My mother's poodle used to pace

with a rubber chicken in his mouth after he ate. Every time.

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22. Thank you very much, CanonRay. That was unique.

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. My cat

stalks, scratches and bites me, even when I'm petting her. My forearms have lots of puncture wounds.

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25. Thank you Oeditpus Rex for sharing, My cat Tinker does that to my husband as he pets here. Out of the clear blue sky,

Sky, she will scratch. and give him puncture wounds.

[zanana1]

48. I keep an extra-large package of BandAids for that.

I still love him to bits.

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53. Thank you zanana1, We do too.

[Hey Joe]

26. Our now deceased black cat Andy-

He would do this bizarre thing where he would sit facing the wall and look up to the ceiling,
his ears would pin back and he’d cock his head as if hearing a noise and then let out a loud reeeoowwww!!! , jump high against the wall dragging his claws as he came down and dash off to another room meowing loudly.
WTF !!!
Wife and I would just exchange shocked looks and laugh.
He was a weird little cat but we loved him and his odd ways. (sigh) We sure do miss him….

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31. I am so sorry for the passing of your Andy. Yes that is very different.Thank you Hey Joe for sharing about your Andy.

[beemerphill]

27. This might show how spoiled my cat was.

My cat and I did a lot together. When watching TV, he would sit on my lap and lick the salt off potato chips and lick the outside of the beer bottle after I drank from it. He didn't like American beer; he preferred German or Canadian beer. When I drank American beer he would have a little to be polite, but he didn't like it. That was the best cat I have ever known, and a great friend.

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32. Thank you beemerphill for sharing. A cat with a preference for beer. Who would have of thought. When my husband eats

oranges, Tinker gets in a huff and scratches him.

[markodochartaigh]

28. I had a Westie who

would howl in a certain way when he heard classical music. It didn't matter if it was a record, no cd's this was the 70's and 80's, if someone was playing the piano, bassoon, recorder, guitar, whatever, if it was classical music he would howl. Also Scott Joplin, but not really modern classical music, Adam's, Glass, Britten. I can't remember about Vaughan Williams. And his howling was more like singing than howling.
He was a wonderful dog. On summer nights we walked in the park under the fragrant mimosa trees.

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33. Thank you very much, markodochartaigh. That is adorable that your Westie would howl to the music. He was very special to

you. TY for sharing.

[Mz Pip]

29. My cat collected Darjeeling teabag wrappers

Just Darjeeling. She had a stash of them behind the couch but I would also find them in my shoes.

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34. Thank you very much, Mz Pip. for sharing with us. That is sweet.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

30. My old black cat demands that his water bowls are filled and in place. He lets

Us know by staring at them and crying until someone addresses the issue. Then he will settle down. He won’t necessarily drink from them but wants them filled and in place. He is a funny guy.

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35. Thank you very much, AnotherMother4Peace. Tinker is like that with her kibble. If she can see the bottom of the bowl.

She will cry until it is empty and refilled, She does not eat it , just wants it refilled

[SheltieLover]

36. Had a Dobe 50 yrs ago that literally ate glass

Light bulb once & broken ceramic ash tray another time.

Strange creatures up to about age 3.

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38. Oh my, SheltieLover. That is quirky. It must have hurt passing it.

[SheltieLover]

40. Dunno. Fed her a loaf of bread for the light bulb &

she vomited up the ash tray. She lived to a ripe old 18.5 yrs.

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41. Wow. Very good thinking with the loaf of bread. Thanks SheltieLover.

[tblue37]

37. In the 1970s and 80s i had a cat who demanded a saucer of tomato juice every morning. He also slurped

spaghetti with tomato sauce if you would hang one strand over his head.

I had another cat many years later who loved to eat stir fried vegetables. She also demanded a share if I had potato chips or saltine crackers. Apparently she just loved salt. She lived to be 20, so it didn't seem to harm her.

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39. Thank you very much, tblue37 for sharing, Your cats sure had quirky tastes.

[LogDog75]

43. We had a cat who liked to be held like a baby

When I was a teenager, my dad got a kitten from a family who was giving them away outside a Safeway store. My dad picked the runt of the litter because he felt sorry for him. The kitten grew into a very large but not fat cat. He loved going outside at night and he'd get in fights with other cats and then come back in for the evening. This very large, tough cat loved to sit with me cradling him in my arm like you would with a baby with his head on my shoulder. You would have to rub him under his neck while cradling him and If you stopped rubbing for more than a minute he'd start kicking with his legs until you resumed rubbing him.

Also, he like to sleep with me and every night, once I was in bed under the covers, he hop up on the bed, walking up my chest, turn around twice and then fall into the crook of my are with his head on my shoulder.

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45. Thank you very very much. LogDog75. That is very sweet.

[ProfessorGAC]

47. Vincent Never Sits Up In The Car

Always just lays down in the back seat.
Because I drive a ragtop, he wears a seatbelt harness. He can still move around.
But, he gets in, lays down, I hook up the belt and he never stands up until I unbuckle the belt. Riding with the top down and he just lays there waiting to get where we're going.
Only dog we ever had like that.

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54. Thank you ProfessorGAC. Vincent sounds like a mellow type of dog.

[ProfessorGAC]

65. People At The Dog Park Have Regularly...

...referred to Vincent as "chill", "calm", or "relaxed".
That's why he's one of the faves of other owners & their doggies.

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66. Thank you ProfessorGAC . Vincent is a very laid back dog.

[Xavier Breath]

49. My cat likes to sit inside the drapes.

They're long enough so that an inch or two of material drags the carpet. He'll lay on that material so as to create a tight, cocoon-like seal, and he'll stay in there for ages.

Now that I type it out, it doesn't really seem like much

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55. Thank you Xavier Breath. Perhaps your cat likes the cocoon seal. A lot of cats would tear up the curtains. You're lucky

[Xavier Breath]

57. Nah, he's a lover, not a shredder.

[Collimator]

50. Had an orange and white dog. . .

. . . with extra sensitive hearing. He would start howling a good two seconds before the other dogs did and another two seconds later we mere humans would hear the fire or police sirens. We figured that extra keen hearing is what motivated him to pick up the phone receivers in his mouth (Mom finally caught him in the act) and leave the phones off the hook so he didn't have to hear them ring.

And yes, he did once pick up when it was actively ringing. My friend, who had been informed of the dog's habits, kept saying "hello" and got no response. That's when she scolded the dog with his name, and according to her, he hung up on her.

Same dog liked to perch on the top of the sofa seat and other narrow surfaces like a cat, and he was not a toy breed but pretty much medium sized, so achieving that balance was probably more of a challenge for him.

Another dog collected red items. I know what people say about dogs' perception of color, but this girl grabbed my mother's red slippers and knitted moccasins and stashed them under the end table. And it wasn't just an affinity for my mother's scent, either.

One day, I had washed two sweaters in the bathroom. They were made from the exact same knitted fabric and were both of the same intensity of color but one was teal while the other was red. I went to lay out towels in the other room so I could dry the sweaters flat. When I got back to the bathroom, the red sweater was missing. Went looking and found it exactly where I expected it to be: under the living room end table with the dog's other red treasures.

A couple of years later, when my brother and a neighbor buried her, I grabbed a red slipper to put in her grave with her.

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56. Wonderful post, Colimator. Thank you very much for sharing with us. She sounds like a treasure.

[The Blue Flower]

52. My little Tricksy hound

Picks up a mouthful of kibble from her bowl walks it over to another part of the room, then drops it on the floor and eats them one at a time. Also, when she wants to go out, she picks up a stuffie toy from her toy box and carries it around the house. Takes it outside with her, then drops it and forgets about it.

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58. Thank you very much The Blue Flower, for sharing with us. I had a dog that did that with his kibble. I guess they like

Their privacy when eating.

[Diamond_Dog]

59. My Sophie quite often leaves one kibble behind in her dish after she eats.

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60. HAHAHHAHAHAH. Thank you for sharing about your Sophie. I wonder why she does that?

[Diamond_Dog]

62. My youngest son says that is her way of letting us know

her opinion of dry kibble.

But then if Sophie had her way she would prefer pizza for dinner every night. In your dreams, I tell her!

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64. That's funny. Thank you for sharing, Diamond_Dog

[lark]

61. My 3 cats learned to ding the bell on the door when they wanted outside when we got a new dog who did that.

Basil, knocked on doors when he really wanted out or in. At the back door, he'd ring the bell first, then wait and if we didn't comply with his request, he'd meow a few times then if still no action from us would sit up and knock on the door, sometimes for quite awhile. Since it was his own special trick, we'd usually cave then unless he was too sick.

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63. Thank you very much,lark for sharing Basil''s quirk. We have a bell on our door and Dolly rings it to go out. Now she

rings it to get a treat and to go out.