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Weird Pet Habits
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Our smallest dog, Biscuit (I didn't name her) eats half of her food at a time - and I mean half, check it out.
I'm sure there's a majority of pet owners have some strange pet habits to share.
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We have a cat that is crazy about water. In this picture, somebody left the water running in the kitchen sink for a few minutes and he decided to play. If we don't put the toilet seat cover down, he will have a great old time. He jumps on the side of the bathtub and plays while you take a bath. I've neve seen a cat behave like this.
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Re: Weird Pet Habits
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11/16/02 04:54 PM
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I have a Giant Schnauzer who steals gloves. While we were building our house any contractor that put his gloves down or stuck them in his back pocket would lose them to the dog. She was real smooth about it and sometimes actually pick gloves out of the pockets without the victim noticing.
She would then just sit there waiting for the glove owner to realize what had happened. She would then walk over and give them back and the game on again.
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Re: Weird Pet Habits
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11/16/02 07:28 PM
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Our four dogs all free feed from the same bowl. When the bowl is empty, and when she is hungry, our newly adopted Greyhound Jaqui will bring the stainless steel bowl from the kitchen and plop it right in the middle of the living room floor, sort of as if to say "the service around here sucks" 
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Re: Weird Pet Habits
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11/18/02 12:57 AM
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One of my cats likes to drag underwear and socks all over the house. His fetish is for clean stuff only. If my wife leaves a load of clean clothes in the laundry basket overnight we can count on finding my socks and her undies strewn all over the house the next morning.
He also likes to "inspect" us every time we come in from outside. First chance he gets he will sniff us all over to see what kind of strange smells we brought in from the outside world. Doesn't seem to matter if we smell like a dog, a cat or just other people. He's got to check out how we smell. I guess he files all the smells away in his mental library for future reference!
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Re: Weird Pet Habits
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12/06/02 02:46 PM
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I have a ratwieller ( spelling?) puppy about 1 year old He likes to drag boulders around, loves a creek bed...some of these rocks are huge...kills small trees with em at times...I'll hafta get a pic someday 
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12/07/02 12:46 AM
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Our big dog ty goes to bed a 9:00 every night we'll be watching tv and have to go into the bedroom and wake him up to go outside. Its pretty funny when you can't find the dog but he'll be asleep in the bedroom. 
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Re: Weird Pet Habits
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12/08/02 07:56 PM
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Count yourself lucky, Hank! One of my four goldens, Glenfiddich, picks up his bowl and tosses it around the kitchen if he feels slighted at meal time. Big loud CLANG, CLANG to voice his disapproval. 
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Re: Weird Pet Habits
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12/09/02 08:03 AM
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Pete, I can picture this perfectly, and  (from here, at least).
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Re: Weird Pet Habits
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12/09/02 08:19 AM
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Our Mastiff , Mulder loves to watch a fire in our woodburning stove. If there's no fire on a cold day, he'll look at the stove and bark. If that doesn't work, he'll pick up a one of the logs we stack near the stove and drop it at my feet, as if to say; "Daddy! Make a fire!"
Then he'll watch the fire until he doses off. Later when he thinks it's time for everybody to go to bed, he'll bark, and look towards the bedroom, until my wife and I and the other dogs go to bed.
Rich
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12/09/02 08:37 AM
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Mulder has his family well-trained
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12/09/02 10:37 AM
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Oh, yeah! In our house, the animals are in charge. Here's Mulder at his favorite spot watching the fire. Mulder is the dark one. Along with him is his big sister Patti, and his little sister Scully, when she was a baby.
Rich
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Lemme try that again!! The picture didn't attach!!!
Rich
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Re: Weird Pet Habits
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12/12/02 03:04 PM
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I once had a very cool cat named Microsoft Cat. He wasn't as large as the cat down the hill, so he used to groom himself just beyond the other cat's personal space till the cat charged. Microsoft would run just far enough away so the other cat would stop the chase, then repeat the process all over again. It might take hours of this, but eventually he'd have coaxed the other cat within sight of our four golden retrievers, who would all leap off the porch and chase the intruder clear back down the hill! It was hilarious to watch!
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Re: Weird Pet Habits
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12/12/02 07:36 PM
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I once had a very cool cat named Microsoft Cat
Did you also have a Microsoft Mouse? <sorry  >
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Re: Weird Pet Habits
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12/12/02 10:14 PM
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We had a cocker several years ago that would not eat dog food unless you poured it out on the carpet. She would not eat it out of a bowl.
My mother had a siamese cat that peed in the toilet. He didn't flush however.
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Re: Weird Pet Habits
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12/13/02 09:26 AM
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Biscuit is a bit of a head case. We found her living in a field close to where we work. She is extremely protective of us, to the point of it being a very real problem. Anything can set her off - especially a knock on the door. What's really weird is that if she hears a doorbell on TV, she freaks out. We don't have a doorbell.
She only weighs 20#'s, but our other 2 GSP's give her a wide berth. However, the two "boys" aren't dumb. At feeding time, everyone gets a bowl of food in a different corner of the room (the GSP's have gone at it once or twice and it wasn't pretty). They have taken to starting a barking session and running to the living room window. Of course, Biscuit joins in and quickly assumes the role of point-man. Once this happens, the other two race back to her bowl and wolf down as much as they can before she realizes that the whole thing was a sham.
Anyone who is around animals will agree, I'm sure - there is no end to the joy and entertainment they provide. Life without animals - to me it's just insane.
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a siamese cat that peed in the toilet
At one time (15 years ago or so) someone was hawking a video that purported to show you how to train your cat to use the toilet. It involved placing a cloth sling under the seat, with litter in it, and then eventually removing the sling.
This idea probably went the same way as all "cat training" ideas, (as Mosey has learned )
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Little late to this post, but I just had to tell stories about one of our dogs. Our Red Heeler, Podnuh, makes a high pitched whine whenever he scratches his ears or if my wife dries his ears with a towel. It seems akin to the tickle spot that most dogs have where you tickle them and theire back leg moves. As long as you rub his ear he makes the whining noise. I told my wife if she could learn where to scratch for different notes she could be on Letterman's stupid pet tricks.
He's a very vocal dog and will sit looking out the window and if the female boxer that lives next door is walking our fence line he'll make various pitched whines until we let him out.
si vis pacem para bellum
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