Unusual mannerisms

Whispered

I've noticed lately that Harley loves "stuff" he will pick up anything to play with, I have often come down the stairs after leaving the back door open for him, to find plants, stones and other outdoor objects in a pile on the kitchen floor. He has no lack of toys, with 2 balls, a small teddy, a kong and a rope chicken at my feet atm.

He seems to like to keep things together, like if we are relaxing on the couch he will do a few trips to the kitchen, each time bringing back one toy, putting it on the couch then going back for another. When he has these prized possesions on the couch he will jump up and sleep happily.

Another thing he has been doing is putting this stuff into boxes or the wash basket! He'll pick it up, put it in and go for another one. My pup is tidier than I am :eek: (although this isn't great when you leave a clean wash basket down for a min and come back to find a plant or sod of grass on top of it :mad:) I'm going to get a small plastic box and teach him to "tidy" his toys at night.

What cute or unusual little mannerisms have you seen in your pet?

MsFifers

Thats so cute! He must think he's minding them or something.

My cats are all pretty grown up and cool now so aren't doing as many stupid/funny things as they used to, but the kitten is OBSESSED with shadows and stalks around hunting them. If I play with her with a feather toy for eg, she ignores the toy and chases its shadows!

Whispered

Aw, kittens are so much fun. They get "old" so quickly don't they. If she likes chasing shadows, she'd probably love one of those laser lights to chase.

My tom loves rolling on the couch, he'll lie on his back and drool while doing a little dance on his back. He's often rolled off the couch and then got up, thrown a dirty look then stalked off like you've pushed him.

He's also learned lately to jump at the handle of the door to try open it, I reckon it's only a matter of time until he gets it. At 6 years old I'm very impressed with his learning capabilities. Although I wont be when I have to start locking my bedroom door to stop him gettin in!

ncmc

That is really cute, what breed is Harvey? I have a cocker spaniel and when she is excited, she has to get a toy in her mouth to bring to you. If there isn't a toy around, she will get in a mad panic and bring you a stone/leaf/feather/kibble from her food, bascially whatever she can get her mouth on! I believe this is a trait of spaniels.

Discostuy

ncmc wrote: »

That is really cute, what breed is Harvey? I have a cocker spaniel and when she is excited, she has to get a toy in her mouth to bring to you. If there isn't a toy around, she will get in a mad panic and bring you a stone/leaf/feather/kibble from her food, bascially whatever she can get her mouth on! I believe this is a trait of spaniels.

Thats mad, i was about to say the same thing. I have two Akitas, and when we get home, or someone they know calls in, one of them gets mad excited and has to run and grab something in her mouth. Like that, it could be anything thats at hand...shoes, toys, bones, just anything thats lying around...The other one grabs your wrist and tries to lead you around the house...

Whispered

Haha, thats brilliant. Is she trying to get you to play with it or is she just bringing it to you.

Harley is a cross of a staffy and a lab I think.

bionic.laura

That's very cute. What a tidy dog!

Ive noticed Westley loves stuff as well. He likes to have his teddies in his bed with him. When he wants to play he'll bring me the toy and do that cute doggie bow.
He will also do anything to get hold of gloves. He loves them. One day he got off his lead, I haven't had him long and off he went. He was lured back with a waved glove

Bluefrog

Since he moved in, the pup has been tormented by the strange dog in our back yard who oddly only shows up at night at the patio door (his reflection). He stands there barking at it, brings his toys over to it and flaunts them in front of the reflection - this also happens if he catches his reflection in the oven door.

I guess it's because he still remembers being in the litter with his 3 brothers all of which look very alike.

Over the past few days the older one has been running over to him when he starts doing this and demands he play with her instead. Sometimes I really have to wonder which one is the pup...

Wish my two would learn to tidy up after themselves!

MizzLolly

My budgie did something really odd lastnight

He flew down onto my pillow beside me when I was falling asleep and was looking at me for a few mins and then flew back into his cage! Weirdo







EDIT!!: zomg!!! He's here repeating his name over and over.... but he's kinda picked up on a stupid pet name I've been calling him... haha opps

My dear departed collie used to do that Helena. He liked keeping certain things in certain places around the gardens.
If you moved them, he would get vexed and put them all back in exactly the same places.
He used to cheat at football too. If you scored he would hold the ball until you renounced the goal.



I was woken up in the middle of the night last week, to find that my cat Suki. Had broken into the house santa style. She climbed down the chimney.
Her long term goal seems to be take control over the humans.
Everytime my mother (current pack leader) leaves her chair. Suki assumes the throne. Even if she is totally panned out and can't bear to move.
She has even started trying to bully me into feeding her curry. Because she seems to think she shouldn't have to eat non people food, like the plebs.

Jack B. Badd

One morning our cat, Eve, hopped up onto the bedside locker next to my boyfriend's side of the bed. He started tickling and teasing her and she became quite annoyed. So she fixed him with this baleful stare as if to say "I've had enough of your crap" and slowly swiped his mobile phone off the locker and onto the floor. Her revenge complete, she hopped off the locker and stalked away.

Also, if she's bored in the morning and the bedroom door is shut she'll waggle her paw around underneath it to be left in. All you can see from the other side is this little white sock waving backwards and forwards...

star-pants

They're all cute stories

My dog Lily (Lhasa Apso, 2yrs old) does that with her toys, will go and take one or a few of them to where she's lying and just lies contently on them, but it must be uncomfortable!

The other day, she was on my bed, and dropped her socks off the side (as always happens) and looks down after them in dismay (as usual) but that side of my bed is about a foot away from my bookcase, which had a toy pterodactyl on it, started reach out sniffing. Went out as far as she could without falling to get closer, realised she couldn't get it, had a look, jumped down, pawed up the shelves (cuz this was on the third shelf) and nicked him!

When she plays with socks, she always turns the sock around so she's chewing the toe of it. She's chewing the ears off her Giraffe toy, she's gas. Sometimes she'll just go pick up her toy/socks and put it under her chin and sleep.
If I get out of bed / off my bed and leave the room (if she's in my room) she gets up and paws back my covers/pillows to get into the bed!

I love odd pet stories

pugsy

My little pug puppy used to do handstands as she ate her food, her bowl wasnt too deep either. She would lean in and put most of her weight on her front legs and her hind legs would be hovering off the ground and then all of a sudden the two hind legs would go right up in the air , she would bring them down again and leave them hovering and up they would go again . Very funny to watch.

star-pants

lol -- you reminded me, Lily when she's eh, doing #1 -- she squats (As girl dogs do) but her back right leg gets lifted off the ground, it's the most curious thing! not in a cocking leg way but just squat and raise the leg a bit.. so funny

The Sweeper

I have four permanent resident cats and a number of foster kittens. The fosters are all between 5 weeks and 9 weeks - I get them for a few weeks to socialise them so they go from hiding when you walk into the room to running up miaowing for cuddles. It's like 'adopt me' boot camp.

Of my permanent cats, I have two neutered males around two years of age, and two sibling juveniles who are about 18 weeks. It's come to light over the last while that my sibling juveniles are bengal crosses, and it shows.

First, they've injected a new lease of life into my two year olds. They've all bonded very closely, and they play up and down the house all night. My big tabby is skipping about like a kitten, throwing toy mice in the air and surfing the carpet runner up and down the wooden floor of the hall all night.

The bengal crosses - they're constantly trying to get into the toilet, or wash hand basins. They're also very fearless and very relaxed - they're extremely handleable, but then I've been handling them since they were three days old. You can put one on your shoulder and walk about and they'll balance happily, enjoying the vantage point.

The male, Hahn, likes to ride about on the floor sweeper. I've got one of those fluffy brooms that you sweep with by never lifting it, and he loves to chase it and then sit on it as I sweep. That, and he's totally unafraid of the vaccum cleaner. He actually loves it when I take the head attachment off it and leave just the round tube between changing attachments. He starts by batting it with his paws, then puts his face up to it and lets it try and suck him in. He thinks it's gas craic, even while the two year old cats are hiding from it.

Both kittens love to climb the screen door if the front door is open, and they can climb to the top of it and hang for a few minutes. They got the tabby into trouble recently - he went up the door after them, but he's heavier so he ended up sitting on top of the open front door, with this "erm, how do I get down?" face.

You can't put a stepladder up in this house or the cats are climbing it within seconds.

I have a range cooker with a convex glass extractor fan above it. Was making breakfast one morning and noticed a smudge on the glass. Closer inspection - kitten footprints all the way across it.

The weirdest is definitely Hahn playing with the hoover. The little guy has no fear.

JennyAnt

Great stories!

When my puppy Baxter wants to go to sleep at night, he piles up his teddys in his bed - pillow style - and rests his head on them and goes asleep! Its so cute watching him collect the teds and positioning them just so! And he wont let us help him, he has to do it himself!

Only at night tho, never during his day time naps.....

tommygirl

My retriever, Twiggy, is nearly 2, and she's a pure ape. She constantly tries to make friends with random strangers when I bring her walking. She has no fear of other dogs, which usually gets me into trouble. She has an old runner of mine that I gave her when I first got her, the runner goes everywhere. Anyone that comes into the house is her new best friend. She barked once, and frightened herself!!!! She watches telly, and sits in front of it, so I can't see... her fav is Nat Geo. When she wants a rub, she put her head under my hand and pushes her head up, like I'm rubbing her. She pulls and drags her bed aroug the kitchen until she's reasonably happy with it's new position, and sings along to Elton John "Tiny Dancer"....possibly cos the high notes hurt her ears!! wouldn't be without her tho.

Gauge

My old dog, Ben, loved to have his family's clothing and stuff (like shoes) in his bed. In a pinch he'd steal clothes drying on the radiator and pull them off and drag them into his bed and sleep on them, but he preferred his favourite person's (my dad's) well-worn fleece, which he'd search the house for. One time my dad had hung it on my little brothers buggy and Ben did his usual, grabbing the fleece in his teeth and yanking to pull it down. Only he brought the whole buggy crashing down and had the b'jaysus scared out of him. That was the end of him stealing the fleece, after that he went for the longer but much safer option of sneaking upstairs and stealing Dad's pyjamas from under his pillow.

lubie76

My tortie cat Missy loves playing on the stairs so I started throwing her little toys down the slope between the wall and the bannister and she runs down the stairs trying to race them before they hit the floor. Now she has decided its just as easy to do it herself so she goes round the house looking for little objects she can carry in her mouth such as my hairclips and bits of jewellery. All night you can hear her rummging in all the rooms for treasures and in the morning there is a little pile at the bottom of the stairs.

00112984

My puppy likes to sit on the back of her couch with her head on my shoulder eating crackers. Lately, she's taken to holding the cracker in her mouth by a corner and then forcing the other side of the cracker into my mouth so we can share.

gino85

i got 4 dogs sandy, molly, tiny and missy

missy will wait untill molly had a dog buscuit in her mouth and then pounch on her head to get it out of her mouth and eat it, she also picks up buscuits and bring them to the back door mat to eat them.

missy also collects random stuff from around the house and brings them to her basket

when its time to go to bed tiny will just fall over on the ground and wont move untill sumone lifts her, she also comes over to nudge my foot and fall over so i can rub her belly with my foot

The Sweeper

I found Turbo Diesel in the bath this morning. You know those 'wall of death' racing circuits, where guys on motorcycles drive faster and faster until they're almost horizontal? Turbo has started to do similar inside the bath.

roweeeeena

I sometimes blow bubbles for my kitten as he loves chasing and pouncing on them, but now he associates the blowing noise with bubbles, so every time I blow on my tea to cool it down he comes running over expectantly, sits at my feet and looks all around for the bubbles!