What is your pet's WEIRDEST habit?

**Tubby & Peanut's Mom** · 09-26-2002, 11:16 PM

Peanut's weirdest habit is that she will pick out different spots on the floor to sleep. It's weird because she'll lay, say, right in the middle of the floor, and she will pick that as "her spot" for the next few days. Then she'll move to a different spot that for some reason unknown to us dull humans is just the right spot - for the time being. I could see if she layed in a corner, or under the table, or something like that, but she'll pick these weird spots just out of the blue. Her latest is to lay by the side of the couch, but not near the couch, halfway between the couch and the railing (which is about 2 feet meaning she lays about 1 foot from the couch and 1 foot from the railing). I don't know, I've tried to figure it out and just can't. I guess she's just weird.

**wolf_Q** · 09-27-2002, 12:21 AM

Reggie: afraid of passing gas also. He'll sniff his butt and run away scared. He likes to sit on peoples feet. Like we'll be sitting at the table for dinner and he's got his butt plopped on somebody's foot. He likes the base of his tail scratched VERY much. He'll go as far as to rub his butt against people (most guests do not find this very amusing lol) to scratch there. He snores and snorts. Quite often I will find him on his back rolling around snorting, hehe. He howls when he is happy, especially in greeting! He also growls ALL of the time.....it's not that he's being mean (and it does scare people sometimes).....he just likes to growl. He enjoys sitting on top of the toilet. In our trailor he sleeps in a tiny storage compartment under the couch (by his own choice!). When he gets scared, he often runs and hides in the bathtub. He is afraid of EVERYTHING, and balloons are one of the absolute worst. He has gone nutso a few times. He seems to go nutso especially if it involves shovels. If we try to dig or anything, he goes crazy digging at the shovel and biting the dirt.

Smokey: He thinks the oddest things are comfortable. Sometimes the sound of crinkling plastic will wake me up in the mornings, and it is Smokey trying to get comfy on a plastic bag full of junk. He sneezes when he is happy or excited. He is 16 years old, and yet sometimes (for no particular reason) he will go and leap clear off of the deck, skipping the stairs completely...going up or down. He is OBSESSED with my mom, and can't stand be to 2 feet away from her. He follows her everywhere. He is completely paranoid. He gets really excited to go for a car ride, but then jumps into the back seat and barks like a mad dog the entire time like he wants out.

Nebo: He likes to eat his foot. He will often literally put his entire foot in his mouth. He likes pickles. He has an thing with trying to crush Reggie and Smokey. He will come up to them all friendly, and then shove them against the wall, with some stupid grin on his face. He thinks it is funny, but I dare to bet you that they don't agree. When he gets in his wild mood, he will run all over the house, full speed. One of his favorite things is to run behind the couch and leap over the magazine rack, and do this a few times as a lap. He got a new free toy from Petsmart in his puppyclass. It is a stuffed blue bone with a really loud squeaker in it. He will find that squeaker, and go CRAZY squeaking it.......he does it as fast as he can, and often while running around the house. (Lol at the class he was going nuts squeaking it, and the instructor was like...yeah ok Nebo...we all KNOW you KNOW how to use the squeaker lol). He likes to lick feet...and ears...and windows...and bathtubs...(tasty eh?). He really enjoys trying to lick the dirty silverwear in the dishswasher. His favorite way to greet a dog is to put his arms around their head like a headlock. Sometimes when he's sleeping, he'll start to make sucking noises like he's nursing his mama or something, lol. If I'm driving and I have him seatbelted in the front seat, he HAS to be in my lap. He'll struggle and stretch as far as he can to get in my lap, lol.

Ok there's probably more, but I have rambled on long enough, right?

**Twisterdog** · 09-27-2002, 01:14 AM

If one of the other dogs is laying on the floor, Jack will walk up to them - backwards! - and sit on them, with his head facing the opposite direction as theirs! For some reason, they allow him to do this! My son says, "Mom, Jack's bum must get cold, and he wants to sit on a furry cushion."

**Twisterdog** · 09-27-2002, 01:16 AM

Ooooh, looky, I'm a "resident" now instead of a "newcomer".

Guess it doesn't take long if you post a lot!

**HoRsELUvR** · 09-29-2002, 07:13 AM

my cat Midnight's weirdest habit is rubbing his butt on the carpet.Also,he likes to sleep in weird places,like the sink,an empty drawer or my closet.

**anna_66** · 09-29-2002, 08:01 AM

I would have to say that Huney has the weirdest habit, she likes to eat tomato worms

They are big, fat & green & she thinks they are the best thing in the world! EWWW GROSSS!
I've attached a pic of what they look like, you'll see why I think it's so gross, but she just loves them!
Angus, like some of the others, is afraid of his own farts! And sometimes they sound just like a humans

He can sure cut some funny sounding ones! Oh, & something else he's started doing recently is sleeping in the bathroom, I'll go to walk in there & end up stepping all over him, but he don't care, he'll just lay there!
I think Roxey's weirdest habit is laying on her back, she does it ALL the time, it soo cute! And like Nebo, she loves to howl, I love how she talks to me & Mark!

**anna_66** · 09-29-2002, 08:04 AM

Originally posted by anna_66
I would have to say that Huney has the weirdest habit, she likes to eat tomato worms They are big, fat & green & she thinks they are the best thing in the world! EWWW GROSSS!
I've attached a pic of what they look like, you'll see why I think it's so gross, but she just loves them!

Oops, forgot the pic!

Looks appetizing hu??!!

**Andie** · 09-29-2002, 12:21 PM

Fluffy like to sleep on clothes, she doesn't care if they're clean or dirty as long as they're in a pile like state she has to sleep on them.

Isis likes to climb up on Dustin's shoulder and lick the outside of his ear.

Katie if she gets really excited she runs in circles around the house. We're not talking about small circles either, she runs around the entire house.

Bull to get your attention will paw at you and if that doesn't work he'll nibble on your fingers.

**FloppsyLadySally54** · 09-29-2002, 03:22 PM

Sally is the only one of my pets with a somewhat weird habit. She likes to lay on papers, and literally scratch up the papers! I once had to explain to my teachers that my cat ripped up my homework lol!!

**ChrisH** · 09-29-2002, 04:50 PM

This is such a good thread! I don`t know how come I didn`t see it before now! I have enjoyed the stories so much

they are SO funny

Bob gets obsessive sometimes. Like he discovered -after 4 years!- that if he stood on the sofa he could see through the window, and I could not get him off it, he was there morning, noon and even at night with the blinds closed he just stood there staring at them! He is more normal with it now, he does watch out there but not ALL the time. Staring is what he does when he is obsessed if it is an object, like a new toy or something else he wants, he will sit and stare where I put it, for ages and ages.
One dog I had, Max, my beloved Dobie, used to bite his nails. He would sit on his chair and go to each leg in turn and chew away. (And, no we never had a problem with ragged nails) There was something else too. He had his tag on a choke chain and his party piece was to hold the tag in his teeth and walk around the room looking just like a horse doing dressage, he just loved the attention he got from that! I still miss him.

**AmberLee** · 09-29-2002, 09:14 PM

Livvy is fascinated by video tapes -- being rewound. I'm not sure what she hears there, but sloooowly creeps up on the rewinder and when it stops and the tape pops out, she nearly jumps her height! It's hysterical to watch her fascination with this appliance.

Cassy periodically attacks paper bags and cardboard boxes. Wish I knew what made a specific bag or box deserve psycho-kitty destruction.

**Rachel** · 09-29-2002, 09:49 PM

Hannah has a couple of weird habits. One is that periodically she wants to smell my breath. She will come and put her face right up to mine. If I don't open my mouth for her, she will open hers in an attempt to show me what she wants. Once she sniffs my breath, she is happy. Okay, now I know you are all saying that I am the weird one for participating in this routine.

Her other weird habit when she is outside is she will bark to come in, then as soon as I go to the door to let her in, she will leave the deck, and I have to stand there waiting for her to decide that she is ready to come in.

Tucker's weird habit is not permitting my husband to open the door for him to go outside, it has to be me. Tucker loves his Dad and will sit on his lap and be all lovey dovey with him, but heaven forbid that he should have to walk by him to go outside. We think it must have been some man who kicked him outside in a previous home.

**lovemymaltese** · 09-30-2002, 12:01 PM

That is weird that Tucker does that. I guess he is picky about who opens the door.

lol

**Dakota's Mommy** · 10-03-2002, 08:41 AM

Not necessarily the weirdest habit of Dakota, but definately one of the weirdest things she does is the sleeping positions that she sleeps in. This is a pic of one of those times that I couldn't understand how she could be comfortable sleeping

**Cataholic** · 10-03-2002, 04:31 PM

My two year old female, Alabama, is insistent on jumping on my HEAD when I get out of the shower, and put the towel around my hair. She hangs over the front, and kinda puts her paws on my shoulders. I will admit, I thought this was so cute when she was four pounds..now that she is ten pounds, and very practiced at it, it has lost some of its flavor.

When I lock her out of the bathroom for a day or so, she gets sooo anxious, and HAS to do it, and will literally leap from the toilet onto me. Guess what? Sometimes she catches me unawares...and I have great difficulty explaining to people the long scratches on my back, arms, chest, neck, etc. Most of the time she knows to leave the claws in, and waits for me to 'help' her onto me...I will give her "a leg up" like someone would to someone getting onto a horse...It really is funny. I always look at us in the mirror, and talk to her while she is purring away ontop of the big towel. What a weirdo! (The cat, not me).