Weird things your pets do....

[Nom_de_Plume]

Anyhow, 3 cats live in my home. I only consider one of them mine, the other two I just sort of acquired.
One I was minding for a friend while she moved (over a year ago and never heard from her again) The other belongs technically to the lady next door but keeps jumping the balcony to us.
Anyhow, do any of you guys have weird things your pets do that just make you shake your head.
One of our cats likes plastic bags, not to play in, but to lay on. I have this bag holder thingy on my wall (to put used shopping bags in for re-use) and she is constantly pulling them out, arranging them on the floor in a kinda nest and just sitting there.
It's kinda weird

[Trainer Mick]

I have one that is more than happy to have you close him in a box, and another that will open that box every time.
One of those (the opener) also pees in the tub and bangs on the side when he's done so you can go rinse it.

[Nom_de_Plume]

Very freaky, One of the cats (the boy from next door) will only drink out of the container I rince my hair with in the bath.
If its empty he will sit in the tub screaming his head off until I put a bit of water in it.
Pets are just darn weird

[kgcayenne]

I once had a cat that:

loved to be vacuumed;
liked to fall asleep in a shopping bag if we hung it on a doorknob;
would play in the bathwater after gurly was done with it;
would hop in the shower and liked to be shampooed;
could jump vertically almost eight feet;
never got tired of playing; and
greeted us at the door like a dog

I miss my kitty desperately, and would love to find another Bengal tabby after we've moved.

[mechanic_virus]

My cat (who is living with my mother) sits in the sink every morning waiting to be blow-dried. He just loves the blowdryer, and has to be blowdried for at least a couple of minutes before you can get him out of the sink. If you just try to get him out without blowdrying him - nuh-uh. He's a pretty big cat, very heavy, and he ain't goin' nowhere.

[gardengirl]

I once had a cat that:

loved to be vacuumed;
liked to fall asleep in a shopping bag if we hung it on a doorknob;
would play in the bathwater after gurly was done with it;
would hop in the shower and liked to be shampooed;
could jump vertically almost eight feet;
never got tired of playing; and
greeted us at the door like a dog

I miss my kitty desperately, and would love to find another Bengal tabby after we've moved.

I believe someone out in Enderby used to raise Bengals.

[kgcayenne]

I believe someone out in Enderby used to raise Bengals.

We got that cat from a breeder in Enderby just off the highway. I can't say I'll consider that cattery again if we are speaking of the same one.

[LongInt]

Our cat also likes to be enclosed in boxes. He will open and climb into them himself - the smaller the box, the better. We leave empty cereal boxes out for him to play with for a few days before packing them up for recycling.

He also will not drink out of any designated water bowl. Rather, he uses two containers: Primarily, a watering can that we keep on the floor in the upstairs bathroom for watering plants. With the handle over the top, the opening is too small for him to even put his head through, but he turns his head sideways and laps the water. For him to even get any water, we have to keep the can full to the brim. His secondary source is an open pail in the basement laundry room that we keep water in, also for watering plants.

He also greets us at the door.

He loves to play with and, especially, in plastic bags. He climbs inside and reaches his legs through the handles. He does the same thing through the holes at the ends of carboard trays (such as small yogourt containers come in).

He prefers to lay on things lumpy rather than smooth. Often, he'll first rumple up the comforter on our bed and then lay on the lumps that he created. He'll lay across our legs (shin, ankle, thigh).

He likes to go into a bathtub and paw on the sides with his pads (not claws). He seems to like the sound and the smoothness. The basement tub has a vinyl shower curtain that he likes to paw down rapidly with both front paws, presumably for the same reason that he paws the tubs.

One time when I was folding old t-shirts that I wear for garden work, he came and lied down on the stack that I was creating. I continued folding and stacking.

[onestop67]

That's a great pic!

[LongInt]

Thank you, onestop. Then perhaps you'll enjoy seeing a cat-nap: using a real cat.

[CountryAtHeart]

We have cat...he is only 1 1/2 years old and he thinks he is part dog.

If he sees another cat through the window he growls instead of hisses. And he barks.

If the kids go up to a friends after school, he will sit by the front door and scream until they come home. He hates it when they are not home on time.

He will not drink tap water, it must come from the filtered water in the fridge.

When we let the dog out in the back yard he will sit by the back door and meow until we let the dog back in.

When my oldest son gets home, my dog will not stop following him and "talking to him" until he gets a carrot.

My cat like to have a bath but only if my daughter is the one to give it to him. He used to jump in as a kitten and play with her.

[mini-me]

We had three cats and the oldest one, Chloe, was a calico female. She fancied herself mother to the other two and became a sock thief!

Chloe would open my sock drawer in the bedroom, snag a pair of balled-up socks in her mouth and then carrying the sock ball, meow to the other cats to show them her "mouse". A cat meowing with a mouthful of socks sounds really strange!!!!

[krusty]

Cats are loco. Ours are as well.My little Siamese is half monkey.There's gotta be some monkey in the gene pool somewhere along the line with them. LOL

[fluffy]

Cats are loco.

Tell me about it. I've got this orange tabby, most affectionate thing you've ever seen. It came from a litter born here. The mother got real sick right after they were born and was whisked off to the vet when the kittens were only four days old. She had lost all her reproductive plumbing, and her milk, by the time she got home from the vet a few days later. The kittens were 'bottle' fed with formula and syringes until they were weened a month later. They are all extremely comfortable around humans because humans were the main care-givers from four days of age. That was about four years ago.

We've had this re-occuring problem with the orange tabby (Rufus) 'marking' his territory around the house. A couple of years back, it got so bad and I got plain fed up, so I evicted the little bugger. The SPCA seemed like a death sentence, so I drove him to the other side of town and freed him. Get outta my life you little pi$$-bucket, go fend for yourself. So he shows up at my door about two months later, and I figure "Not bad Rufus. I'll give you another chance". So he behaves himself up until a couple weeks back, and the house starts to stink again. I'm told that getting him neutered might fix the problem but that's a hundred bucks that I just don't have right now. Last night I'm lounging in my favorite recliner and Rufus hops up on the headrest and 'marks' my ear. He doesn't live here anymore. If he finds his way back again, we'll rethink it then. Maybe there will be a couple bucks around to have him 'pruned', maybe he'll find someone else to pi$$ on. Whatever. My only problem now is what to tell my daughter, she really hated me the last time. But then again, she doesn't have to live here and get greeted with 'eau-de-chat' every time she comes in the front door.

[krusty]

The SPCA seemed like a death sentence, so I drove him to the other side of town and freed him. Get outta my life you little pi$$-bucket, go fend for yourself.

That sounds like a death sentence as well. Maybe worse.Too bad you just didn't have him castrated while he was small.