What Strange Habits Do Your Fur Kids Have?

[k9ophile]

Just a few more vitamins then I'll brush my teeth and it's off to bed. Mersey has already selected the squeaky toy she'll be bringing into the bedroom. Abbey has to have a squeaky toy in the back seat of the car to bring into the house when she gets home. It's cute, but the Good Night musical I can do without. Yes, I could take it away, but she's so darned cute that I just let her get by with it. It's only for a few minutes...

 

[brooklyngirl]

My 4.5 month old, Heidi, is OBSESSED with napkins/tissues/paper towels. If she sees one in her reach, she sneaks up on it real slow, then snatches it and bolts! The funny thing is that she doesn't eat it, she just shreds it up (and makes a mess for me to clean up). At an outdoor concert this weekend, she discovered that big dry magnolia leaves also provide equal entertainment

 

[JackieOnLine]

Heidi is so cute, what a face!!

Fritz knows he is not supposed to take his toys outside, and so that's all he wants to do. 99 times out of 100 I take it away from him as he goes out the door and the 100th time he manages to sneak it outside - and this makes him so happy.

Bunny is fascinated with kleenix, especially, and she does eat them but can't seem to swallow. I will hear a hacking noise and I have to fish the wet blob out of her throat where it is stuck. ick!

 

[DianaCox]

My cats jump up on the bed with me twice a day, when they hear me rattle my vitamin box, and follow the command to "SIT" in order to get their treats after I take my pills.

 

[Elizabeth N.]

Jack (the rescued more-or-less mini poodle, with enough terrier mixed in to make him a *******) has a fit if Mr. EN and I hug each other and he doesn't get included. And I do mean yowling, barking, jumping FIT.

Many of his other tantrums are easily explained: I'm pretty much convinced he was abandoned/trapped indoors. He goes bonkers if he believes we're loading the car to travel and must be included on his leash so he knows he gets to go with us. He goes bonkers, shrieking at the window, if people walk by, until one of us reminds him that we are also in the house and he's fine. Anything that reminds him that he's not alone calms him right down.

But that pitching a fit over not being included in a hug has me baffled.

 

[Jo777]

We have a ninja-cat.. Anya. The other two, Maizie and Little Britches (she's got short legs) head off to bed in their room (kitchen and basement area.. we have a nice comfy cat bed on a table in front of a window, cat-fountain, and a lower bunk too, underneath..) but Anya will "disappear" 20 mins before bedtime almost every night. Sometimes we see her, hiding still as a stone in plain sight and shoo her, or Todd has to carry her like a baby and deposit her in her bed (spoiled.)

Most nights we can't find her, go to bed, then get woken up an hour later by her playing by herself, or meowing to be let into the kitchen. It is a game, and she knows it.

 

[Terri]

When Sugar is ready for bed she runs into her kennel for her bedtime treat. Of course as soon as she eats it she gets out of the kennel and goes into the living room. She lays on the sofa in there waiting for my husband to come home from work.