What strange habit does your pet has?

[Dogtrousers]

Another strange habit of my sister's border terrier is tidying up after eating. She eats from a metal bowl in the kitchen. When she's finished she picks the empty bowl up and goes and puts it in the middle of the living room floor.

We have not figured out what's going on in her mind there.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Our cat always poops on the conservatory internal door mat. She can go outside, or choose from 2 nice clean litter trays, but always on the door mat

 

[stephec]

We are on our second rescue Greyhound. They are usually house trained by the adoption agencies and go to the door when they want to go out waiting for someone to notice and open the door. Dash our current dog will bark once which gets everyone's attention and someone lets her out.

Our dog does that, although sometimes it's a growl.

Then when you walk in the kitchen she'll look at you, look at the door, look at you, look at the door, as if she's Skippy the bush kangaroo.

 

[stephec]

I know cats do this, but does anyone's dog watch the fish?

 

[presta]

Our collie Penny used to:

Go round the edge of the lounge licking the lino.
Chase her tail, catch it, then totter round the room with it in her mouth.
Lay up against the electric fire until her fur started smoking.
Chase after spots of light from torches & mirrors, and pounce on them if they were on the floor.

 

[gbb]

Dilys is obsessed with lights, reflections and shadows. It’s worse indoors in the winter.

Cleo likes to mouth on a toy for hours whilst treading her front paws. Apparently it’s something to do with comfort suckling on her mother. She’ll be 7 next birthday!

Herbie has marvellous testicles!

Our son has a border collie that seemed unhealthily obsessed with lights and reflections. It was our sons fault I suspect, he used to tease the dog with a lazer.pen...

It has grown out of it a bit now.

 

[Dave 123]

Our son has a border collie that seemed unhealthily obsessed with lights and reflections. It was our sons fault I suspect, he used to tease the dog with a lazer.pen...

It has grown out of it a bit now.

Sometimes when people notice they’ll do it more, until I point out the damage it can do.

 

[geocycle]

Sits on the window ledge and taps the window to wake us up. He’s a blackbird!

 

[Drago]

Bruce can tell the time. He has an incredibly accurate body clock and knows to within 2 or 3 minutes when I'm about to get out of bed, when were due to leave to meet Mini D from school, when he's due for his evening walk. It so accurate it's eerie.

 

[gbb]

Sometimes when people notice they’ll do it more, until I point out the damage it can do.

Yep. My son thought it was funny and in a way it was. But I said to him when he got annoyed at Max the collie staring at what seemed like a shadow...or less...YOU'RE the reason he's doing it, you've mucked him up with that later torch (imho of course)

Don stopped, max has improved but still occasionally does it.

Our Lab Digby, he doesn't really have any wierd habits, even though he's a chocolate lab which tend to be stupider than black or yellows..he is pretty laid back like all our previous labs. Bugger for pulling and the presence of people or worse, other dogs. Very strong a sod to keep down in those situations

 

[Psamathe]

Our son has a border collie that seemed unhealthily obsessed with lights and reflections. It was our sons fault I suspect, he used to tease the dog with a lazer.pen...

It has grown out of it a bit now.

It doesn't take much. One of my Border Collies was obsessed with TV remote controls and that started becuase using the TV remote used to make the TV make a soft brief sound (old CRT tube) and he quickly associated somebody pointing the TV remote at the TV with the noiuse and this became great fun. Sometimes he sit mouth inches away from the TV remote resting on a chair waiting for somebody to want it at which point it would be in his mouth before being dripped on their lap.

Ian